Issued in 2012
May 10, 2012
Natural Gas Compression Technology Improves Transport and Efficiencies, Lowers Operating Costs
An award-winning compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations has been developed by a company with support from the DOE.
May 09, 2012
DOE-Sponsored IGCC Project Could Lead to Lower-Cost Carbon Capture Technologies
Changes in operating conditions coupled with changes in commercially manufactured catalysts can produce both power generation increases and significant cost savings at IGCC power plants, according to new research from a DOE-sponsored project.
May 08, 2012
Stent Technology Saves Lives, Creates Jobs
When people think of benefits from energy research, they usually don't envision saving lives. But thanks to an innovative alloy jointly developed by Boston Scientific Corporation and DOE metallurgists, that's what is happening.
May 03, 2012
DOE-Sponsored Drilling Projects Demonstrate Significant CO2 Storage at Three Sites
Evaluation-related test drilling at geologic sites in three states that could store a combined 64 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
May 02, 2012
U.S. and Japan Complete Successful Field Trial of Methane Hydrate Production Technologies
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the completion of a successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates.
May 01, 2012
Energy Department Announces New Mapping Initiative to Advance North American Carbon Storage Efforts
There is at least 500 years - and perhaps as much as 5,000 years - of geologic storage for CO2 emissions in North America, according to the newly released North American Carbon Storage Atlas.
April 25, 2012
Innovative DOE Technology Demonstrates Potential for Significant Increases in Safe and Responsible Production from Depleted U.S. Oil Fields
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that an innovative flooding technology has successfully improved oil recovery at a mature Illinois field by more than 300 percent.
April 19, 2012
DOE Continues Long-Running Minority Educational Research Program
Four projects have been selected as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's long running minority educational research program.
April 13, 2012
Obama Administration Announces New Partnership on Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Research
Today, three federal agencies announced a formal partnership to coordinate and align all research associated with development of our nation's abundant unconventional natural gas and oil resources.
April 10, 2012
Opening New Avenues for High-Efficiency, Low-Emission Coal Gasification
In a project funded by DOE, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has developed a high-pressure, dry-solids feed pump that could make gasification economically competitive.
April 04, 2012
NETL-RUA Scans for Improved Enhanced Oil Recovery Technique
Researchers participating in the NETL-RUA are using a familiar piece of medical equipment - a CT scanner - to evaluate cutting-edge improvements to enhanced oil recovery techniques.
March 29, 2012
NETL Shares Computing Speed, Efficiency to Tackle Energy Technology Barriers
One of the world's fastest supercomputers will be installed at FE's NETL this summer to help develop solutions to carbon capture, utilization and storage technology barriers.
March 26, 2012
"Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration" Training Program Now Accepting Applications
A DOE program that helps graduate students and early career professionals gain hands-on field research experience in areas related to CCUS is accepting applications until April 15.
February 13, 2012
President Requests $650.8 Million for Fossil Energy Programs
President Obama's FY 2013 budget seeks $650.8 million for the Office of Fossil Energy to support improved energy security and rapid development of climate-oriented technology.
February 10, 2012
Remote Gas Well Monitoring Technology Applied to Marcellus Shale Site
A technology to remotely monitor conditions at energy-rich Marcellus Shale gas wells to help insure compliance with environmental requirements has been developed through a research partnership funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
February 09, 2012
Fossil Energy Know-How Helps Heart Patients
For their work developing a new metal alloy that has dramatically improved coronary stents used in patients with heart problems, three scientists at FE's NETL are set to receive the Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.
February 09, 2012
Chu in Pittsburgh: "We Need an All-Out, All-of-the-Above Strategy that Develops Every Available Source of American Energy"
Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu joined Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to tour a range of research facilities at FE's National Energy Technology Laboratory.
February 07, 2012
New Models Help Optimize Development of Bakken Shale Resources
Exploration and field development in the largest continuous oil play in the lower 48 states - located in North Dakota and eastern Montana - will be guided by new geo-models developed through funding provided the DOE's Office of Fossil Energy.
January 17, 2012
Utility to Purchase Electricity from Innovative DOE-Supported Clean Coal Project
An innovative clean coal technology project in Texas will supply electricity to the largest municipally owned utility in the United States under a recently signed Power Purchase Agreement.
January 04, 2012
DOE-Sponsored Online Mapping Portal Helps Oil and Gas Producers Comply with New Mexico Compliance Rules
An online mapping portal to help oil and natural gas operators comply with a revised New Mexico waste pit rule has been developed by a team of New Mexico Tech researchers.
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