Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032305

The University of California, Berkeley has been awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate and Atmospheric Research Program (CFDA 11.431) to investigate changes in urban methane emissions. The 3-year project will involve operating a stationary flux tower to characterize multi-year trends in San Francisco Bay Area methane, as well as conducting mobile monitoring to identify and quantify specific methane emission sources across the...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $20,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Colorado State University (CSU) under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The purpose of this 12-month project, titled the "North-Central Methane Center (NCMC)", is to develop consistent, accurate, granular, and transparent multiscale methane emission measurements focused on the North-Central region's producing basins....

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $20,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the Institute of Gas Technology (GTI Energy) to conduct the Southeast Methane Emissions Quantification (SE-MEQ) study. The SE-MEQ study aims to establish a comprehensive regional methane emissions estimate for oil and gas operations in the Southeast/Gulf Coast region. The key objectives are to: 1)...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program awarded a $7,487,592 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology on January 17, 2025. The primary objective of this 3.5-year project is to deploy, field test, and permanently install innovative methane emission mitigation technologies at compressor stations across multiple locations, including the Permian Basin, Appalachian Basin, and Southern California region. The goal...

The Department of Energy, through its Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program, awarded a $20,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Texas at Austin on January 15, 2025. The grant will support the development of consistent, accurate, granular, and transparent multi-scale methane emission measurement approaches focused on the Permian, Anadarko, Arkoma, and San Juan Basin production regions over different time scales. This effort will inform state...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $7,499,101 to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to accelerate the commercialization, scale-up, and field deployment of innovative methane emissions reduction technologies. The project aims to mitigate methane emissions caused by flaring and non-safety-related venting practices at oil and gas...

This $9,999,878 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program supports the "Comprehensive Oil and Gas Pollution and Emissions Research Network in California's Underserved San Joaquin Valley Communities (COPERNICUS)" project. The award was granted to Sonoma Technology, Inc., a for-profit environmental consulting firm, to conduct research and monitoring focused on minimizing the environmental impacts of oil...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to accelerate the mitigation of methane emissions from small oil and gas operators in the U.S. The total funding amount is $209,999,996.00, with an award date of January 15, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2028. The key objectives of this project, titled "WELL CHECK,"...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy awarded Blue Sky Measurements, Inc. a $499,500 project grant to develop an "optical NIR fixed-position passive scanner for methane detection and measurement." The grant was awarded under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954, Topic T, on June 21, 2021 with a completion date of December 20, 2022. Through this funding, Blue Sky Measurements will deliver an optical scanner that utilizes near infrared...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $6,349,734 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program to the Institute of Gas Technology (GTI Energy), a non-profit research organization. The primary objective of this project is to deploy and test a novel, low-cost, linear motor methane mitigation compressor to capture a wide variety of methane leaks across the natural gas value chain, including...