The University of North Dakota received a $14,500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) to investigate the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and geologic CO2 storage in the Bakken formation. The project aims to conduct laboratory studies and a minimum 18-month field pilot test to evaluate the potential for incremental oil recovery...
The University of North Dakota received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to support research on hydrolytic softening of ocean water for carbon dioxide removal. With a completion date of November 2022, this award will fund the University's work exploring techniques to extract carbon dioxide from seawater through hydrolysis, an important area of research for developing scalable carbon capture and storage solutions....
The Department of Energy, through its Clean Energy Demonstrations Program (CFDA 81.255), awarded a $4,199,672 Cooperative Agreement to DCC East Project LLC on September 30, 2024. This funding supports Project Tundra, an initiative to install post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) technology at the existing Milton R. Young Station, a lignite-based coal power plant in North Dakota. The project aims to demonstrate state-of-the-art CCS technology, including system integration...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,875,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to the University of North Dakota (UND). The objective of this 12-month project is to develop a Regional Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Resilience (REVIR) plan that has broad stakeholder support to serve as an actionable roadmap for strengthening and maintaining a secure, reliable, and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $4,250,000 Cooperative Agreement to Carbon Solutions LLC for the "Trail of the Chiefs" project under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The project aims to drive region-wide decarbonization across Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming by providing a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline trunkline that will connect...
The University of North Dakota received a $1.25 million project grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307) on August 16, 2022. The funding will support the University in creating a commercialization strategy for unmanned aerial systems technology innovations in North Dakota. The project includes testing and demonstrations of three commercial use cases for UAS to advance autonomous system...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $4,994,678 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) to Onboard Dynamics LLC, a for-profit company based in Bend, Oregon. The project's objective is to incorporate new functionality into Onboard Dynamics' current GOVAC system to enable natural gas producers to capture methane that would traditionally be vented to the atmosphere during liquid unloading...
The North Dakota Industrial Commission, Oil and Gas Division has been awarded a $25,000,000 Formula Grant under the Department of the Interior's Energy Community Revitalization Program (CFDA 15.018). The grant will fund activities to plug, remediate, or reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells on state and private lands in North Dakota through August 1, 2029. Key deliverables include decreasing methane emissions, enhancing public health and safety, and restoring land and water resources degraded by...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,708,890 Project Grant to Turtle Mountain College, a tribally owned and minority-serving institution in Belcourt, North Dakota, under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The grant, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will support the college's efforts to advance research, development, demonstration, and deployment of clean and renewable energy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of North Dakota (UND), in collaboration with North Dakota State University, Kansas State University, Haskell Indian Nations University, Turtle Mountain Community College, and Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. The grant project, titled "RII TRACK-2 FEC: Sustainable Engineering Infrastructures and Solutions for Tribal Energy...