Project Grant DESC0020595

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...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (IFOS) received a $199,955 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system for geothermal fracture imaging. The system will utilize fiber optic sensor technologies to map subsurface fractures for geothermal energy exploration and development. Mapping fractures is important for locating geothermal reservoirs and managing...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Magiq Technologies, Inc. under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award is for the development of "Remote Non-Conductive EM Field Sensors for Deep Borehole Environments." The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through innovative research on seismic monitoring methods for geothermal wells and deconvolution analysis. Magiq...

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...

Fervo Energy Company has been awarded a $3,984,899 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a fiber optics-based diagnostic platform to monitor and optimize dynamic subsurface processes for geothermal energy storage and generation. With a performance period of August 2022 through August 2024, Fervo Energy will work to address major barriers to operating geothermal facilities flexibly through their "FervoFlex"...

Emprise Concepts, LLC was awarded a $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (NSF TIP, CFDA 47.084) to develop an innovative computational software tool for characterizing subsurface conditions and reducing risk in underground construction projects. Specifically, the company will create algorithms to automatically integrate geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring data, construction process data, and existing infrastructure...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Magiq Technologies, Inc., a for-profit optics and photonics research and development company based in Somerville, Massachusetts. The grant was awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to fund the development of an optical multi-component seismic array for long-term monitoring of geothermal wells. The project is scheduled to be completed by May 9, 2024. Through this...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University for the design, development, prototyping, and validation of a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool. The project aims to create a high-fidelity, comprehensive inspection tool compatible with current conveyance methods to provide a full, continuous 3D tomograph of the wellbore (casing, cement, and part of the formation)...

The $255,963 National Science Foundation grant to Teverra LLC will support the development of an innovative downhole tool for direct measurement of in-situ rock stresses in deep well environments. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million CFDA program, the Phase I project aims to design, model, and prepare prototypes for a modular stress measurement tool applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells. Key objectives include analytical and numerical solutions to...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant to Itomography Corporation supports the development of dual-modality tomography core scanning technology for oil saturation estimation at wellsites. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of determining three-dimensional hydrocarbon distribution throughout large-diameter cores with high spatial resolution of 10 cubic millimeters, 95% accuracy, and a throughput of 1 meter per hour...