Number of Projects	Total Value* (Million $)	DOE Share (Million $)	Job Benefits**
Coal & Power Projects	1	$0.20	$0.20	6
Oil & Gas Projects	2	$1.08	$.70	31

*Includes DOE and private sector cost-sharing

**An average of 28.5 direct and indirect jobs per $1 million in R&D funding is used based on the Department of Commerce's Regional Input-Output Modeling System formula.

Louisiana University Developing Fuel Cells

• Membranes for Anode Supported All Perovskite SOFCs - Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, has been awarded a fully-funded $200,000 project to study membranes for SOFCs. This study will prepare and characterize nano-crystalline Perovskite membranes for intermediate temperature SOFCs.

Louisiana Projects Helping to Stimulate Oil Production

• Process for Improved Light Oil Recovery - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA - The purpose of this $865,000 project (DOE share: $622,000) is to develop a new gas-injection enhanced oil recovery process, which will efficiently recover the remaining trapped oil by overcoming the limitations of the water-alternating-gas (WAG) process currently applied in watered-out reservoirs. The new process is termed the "Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) process."

• Artificial Lift System - Gas Production Specialist, LLC, Lafayette, LA will develop an economical through tubing (microhole) artificial lift system that will allow well operators in the Gulf of Mexico to re-activate wells that can no longer flow naturally due to fluids in the wellbore. DOE is contributing $80,000 to offset the total project cost of $210,500.