Cooperative Agreement DESC0022590

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...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $200,000 in funding to Vista Clara Inc., a veteran-owned small business, to develop CPT+NMR instrumentation and tooling for offshore wind geotechnical investigations. Vista Clara specializes in advanced magnetic resonance technologies for groundwater characterization and has delivered a range of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging systems, instruments, and...

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...

Stratajam LLC received a $276,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a real-time mineral data collection and identification module. The module aims to improve mining and geotechnical drilling activities by eliminating the need for handling bulky samples and water usage in the drilling process. This will mitigate risks to public and wildlife drinking water sources from...

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 from the Department of Energy Office of Science provided $249,966 to Global Technologies Corp of Atlanta, GA from June 2021 through March 2022. The grant supported development of seismic AI technology for real-time analysis of drilling and fracking operations under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economics through scientific discoveries and...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Colorado School of Mines $2,197,721 under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) federal grant program on May 5, 2023 to complete the project by May 4, 2026. The award will support integrating reservoir stimulation and sensing technology to enhance in-situ mining and carbon mineralization through disruptive electro-hydraulic fracturing and distributed fiber-optic sensing....

Oceanit Laboratories Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop metamaterials for geothermal well integrity monitoring. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this award, Oceanit will develop metamaterials...

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...