The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, through its Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, awarded a $2,805,030 Cooperative Agreement to the West Virginia University Research Corporation on January 15, 2025. The objective of this 1-year award is the continued research, development, and deployment of prototype methane mitigation systems (MMS) at active natural gas compression sites. The successful deployment of these MMS prototypes...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $299,999,930.00, was issued 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) federal grant program. The objective of the award is to cost-effectively mitigate methane emissions from marginal conventional oil and gas wells through a collaborative approach. The funding will support Colorado State University (CSU) in delivering a range of services, including...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $7,500,000 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to develop a commercially scalable system for dramatically improving the catalytic activity and stability of palladium-based catalysts for methane oxidation. The project aims to achieve "near zero emissions" of methane from natural gas...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's 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 validate and commercialize new technologies capable of mitigating methane emissions caused by flaring and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $7,500,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) to Mahle Powertrain, LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit organization, to demonstrate at-scale a methane oxidation catalyst (MOC) system with longevity and performance requirements that will enable widespread adoption in oil and gas applications utilizing natural gas engines. The project aims to use an electrically heated substrate...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $4,669,746 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Colorado State University and Caterpillar Inc. The award, effective January 15, 2025 through September 30, 2028, is for the development of an ultra-low methane emissions retrofit system for gas compression packages in the natural gas transmission and gathering sectors. This project aims to reduce methane...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program, awarded a $5,261,685 Cooperative Agreement to Envana Software Solutions, LLC on January 15, 2025. The objective of this project is to conduct highly accurate, reliable, low-cost, and broad coverage methane emissions monitoring using operational SCADA data, and significantly reduce methane emissions from the monitored oil and gas...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 81.089), awarded a $7,477,863 cooperative agreement to Baker Hughes Energy Transition LLC for the development and deployment of an integrated methane emissions reduction system for upstream flares. The primary objective is to demonstrate a solution that can be easily retrofitted at existing sites, with a cost-effective payback period of...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $7,487,592 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) on January 17, 2025 under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The primary objective of this 3.5-year project is to deploy, field test, and permanently install innovative methane emission mitigation technologies at multiple compressor station sites across the Permian...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $20,000,000 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop 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. The project aims to inform state and federal...