This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 provides $20,000,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Austin to collect, synthesize, and make publicly available multi-scale methane emissions data from the Northeast United States. The key objectives of the project are to: design and deploy accurate, granular, and transparent multi-scale methane...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to develop consistent, accurate, and transparent multi-scale methane emission measurements in the North-Central region's producing basins. The $20,000,000 award, granted to Colorado State University, will: Collect, validate, and disseminate point source to regional-scale methane emission inventories using...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $50,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the Tribal Energy Consortium. The objective of this project is to empower tribal communities to reduce methane emissions on tribal-owned and operated marginal conventional wells and oil & gas facilities on tribal lands. The project will strategically deploy proven mitigation technologies to...
This federal 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 in funding 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 focuses on validating and demonstrating new technologies capable of mitigating methane emissions from...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, DEFE0032702, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The $20,000,000 award to the University of Texas at Austin is for the "Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - Methane Management through Multi-Scale Measurements" project. The project aims to develop consistent, accurate, and transparent multi-scale methane emission measurement approaches focused on the...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $9,999,522 cooperative agreement to GTI Energy (the Institute of Gas Technology), a non-profit research organization, to implement the Methane Emissions Training, Reporting, and Information for Communities (METRIC) program. This 4-year program, starting on January 15, 2025, aims to accelerate the deployment of methane emission monitoring technologies in disadvantaged communities across the North-Central...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $7,487,592 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech). The primary objective of this project is to deploy, field test, and permanently install innovative methane emission mitigation technologies at compressor stations across multiple host locations, including the Permian Basin, Appalachian...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), provides $4,832,880 in funding to the University of Oklahoma to collaborate on the field deployment, full-scale validation, and commercialization of a low-cost emissions reduction retrofit kit for integral reciprocating compressors (IRCs). The project aims to provide the natural gas industry with a transformative solution...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $209,999,996 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to the Institute of Gas Technology (GTI Energy), a non-profit research organization. The goal of the "WELL CHECK" project is to accelerate the mitigation of methane emissions from small oil and gas operators with production volumes between 15 and 40 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The key...
This $6,349,734 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) aims to deploy and test a novel, low-cost linear motor methane mitigation compressor. The primary objective is to capture methane leaks across the natural gas value chain, including from reciprocating compressors and pneumatic controllers. The project will validate the effectiveness of this technology in various...