Project Grant DESC0020910

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $650,869 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research and development of a seismic monitoring methodology for underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. Specifically, the awardee will develop a system combining time-lapse seismic imaging, physical...

This $31,262,296 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) aims to demonstrate the feasibility of safely converting a mature oil and gas field in the Permian Basin into a dedicated carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facility. The key objectives are to: 1) further validate the subsurface characterization, storage capacity, and technical/economic performance to inform the final...

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and development at the University of Tulsa to advance the modeling and analysis of CO2 transport in porous media for geological carbon sequestration. The $157,471 award, effective July 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, aims to develop computationally efficient data-driven models to predict and analyze the complex flow behavior of CO2 in geological formations. The...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $730,524 will fund the development of new statistical methods for computer-assisted inversion to improve analysis of global remote sensing data from July 2022 to June 2025. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Trustees of Boston University will receive funding to advance the transformation of satellite-based remotely sensed data into useful climate and geophysical information. Specifically, the grantee will...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of geothermal wells at high temperature and high pressure. The project aims to deliver a high-fidelity, complete inspection tool compatible with current conveyance methods that can provide a...

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 $625,066 to develop and test a wireless artificial intelligence (AI)-powered multi-functional fiber optic sensor system for gasification-based systems. The award aims to create a sensor capable of simultaneously measuring high temperature, pressure, strain, hydrogen concentration, carbon monoxide concentration,...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), provides $7,487,592 to deploy, field test, and permanently install innovative methane emission mitigation technologies at compressor stations across multiple locations, including the Permian Basin, Appalachian Basin, and Southern California region. The primary objective is to advance these technologies from...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), aims to develop an end-to-end, multi-modal, high-resolution methane inventory quantification (E2E-METHANE-IQ) technology. The $19,736,446 award to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) will fully validate this technology through multiple measurement campaigns in major Western U.S. basins, making it...

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...