Project Grant DESC0019621

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $250,000.00 in funding to Terradac Technologies LLC to develop an "AUTOMATED FAST-MODULAR GEOPHYSICAL MONITORING NETWORK FOR CARBON STORAGE OPERATIONS." The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as environmental science and emerging...

The federal Project Grant award DESC0025769 from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,500.00 to Cyentech Consulting LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop a novel and rugged electromagnetic wireless system for long-term subsurface CO2 plume monitoring and saturation mapping. This 12-month project aims to create advanced software tools and modeling capabilities to support critical energy exploration and...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $205,499 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Sentek Instrument, LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to develop an active sensing cable and interrogation system for subsurface magnetic field imaging. The project aims to enhance understanding of carbon storage processes and contribute to U.S. energy and national security priorities. Sentek Instrument has previously...

This Project Grant award of $200,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to KJT Enterprises, Inc. in Houston, TX. The award, effective February 18, 2025 through February 17, 2026, will support research on "ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MONITORING FOR GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE WITH MEASUREMENT ENHANCEMENT WITH IMPROVED ANOMALY RESOLUTION." The project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop technological...

Bettergy Corp. received a $199,988 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a highly sensitive real-time subsurface sensor for carbon dioxide leakage monitoring. The project supports the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, with a Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number of 81.049. This program aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and...

Eden Geopower Inc. was awarded a $3,271,671 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The three-year award will support Eden Geopower's development of an electro-hydraulic fracturing technology for enhanced geothermal systems. Their proposed concept involves using electric currents to selectively increase permeability in targeted fractures. This is intended to stimulate a larger reservoir volume without reducing fluid...

The US Geological Survey, through its Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program, awarded Purdue University $300,000 in Cooperative Agreement funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025. The award will support Purdue University's development of borehole tools to measure three-dimensional groundwater flow direction and velocity during long-term deployment. Key deliverables include a minimum of four working prototypes of a borehole sensor that uses temperature...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $248,581 project grant to Zonge International, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop an autonomous nodal electromagnetic measurement system for geophysical monitoring of geologic carbon storage processes. The grant, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), runs from July 2023 through April 2024. Zonge International has previously delivered geophysical equipment and services to federal...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,274,658 Cooperative Agreement to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center, to develop a novel fiber optic sensor system for high-fidelity measurement of marine pH and pCO2. The primary objectives of the 3-year project are to: 1) create a distributed measurement system spanning kilometers horizontally with 5-20 m spatial resolution down to 1 km depth, 2) enable robust...