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Innovative Technologies To Eliminate Flaring From Oil And Natural Gas Production

DOE-NETL

Status:

Active

September 6, 2023

Posted:

Deadline: 

November 27, 2023

Funding

37500000

Program:

Award Floor:

Ceiling:

12500000

Match Required?

Yes

Eligibility

All

States:

Entity Types:

Public & State controlled institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits (with 501(c)(3) status), City or township governments, County governments, State governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

The following types of applications will be deemed nonresponsive and will not be reviewed or considered (See Section III, Eligibility Information; Responsiveness Criteria): • Submissions that fall outside the technical parameters specified in Section I, “Funding Opportunity Description; Objectives/Areas of Interest” of the FOA, including but not limited to the following: o Processes that are limited to laboratory-scale operation that are not using natural gas that is produced directly at the DE-FOA-0003017 Page 14 of 130 o o wellhead. Applications that do not have a letter of commitment at the time of submission from an Industrial partner willing to operate the proposed technology at a well site. Technologies below the requested starting TRL that have only been validated in laboratory settings and are not ready for pre-commercial pilot scale deployment in the field. Existing commercial NGL separation technologies that do not clearly add new R&D elements to fundamentally improve the effectiveness (cost, efficiency) of the operations and commercialization opportunities. o Existing commercial gas treatment technologies that remove contaminants such as water, sulfur, and oxygen but do not further process the hydrocarbon constituents of the gas. o Methane slip detection or flare performance monitoring systems meant only to quantify emissions. o Systems that focus solely on power or heat generation on-site as the end product and do not use that energy for powering upstream gas processing and conversion. o Gas reinjection systems for enhanced oil recovery or reservoir management or any system that requires geological gas storage for the mitigation of methane emissions or other gaseous emissions. o Systems that vent hydrogen or other direct or indirect greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as part of the process without consideration of the capture and utilization or transport and sale of these gases. o Proposals using computer simulations or development of modeling tools or methods that do not culminate in a field deployment for validation of a laboratory-proven technology at a well site. o Technologies centered on hydrogen production.

The objective of this FOA is to competitively solicit cost-shared research proposals for pilot-scale field deployment and validation of efficient, cost-effective solutions ready for pre-commercialization that can eliminate flaring and non-safety related venting of natural gas at the well site. The objective of this FOA is to competitively solicit cost-shared research proposals for pilot-scale field deployment and validation of efficient, cost-effective solutions ready for pre-commercialization (advancing research from a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 to a minimum of TRL 7 – see Appendix G for TRL definitions) that can eliminate flaring and non-safety related venting of natural gas at the well site. Projects sought under this FOA include the use of innovative technologies for processing and separating oil and associated gas at the well site designed to eliminate flaring, as well as new technologies designed to convert the associated natural gas into value-added solid or liquid products. Proposals can also develop technologies that use both processing and conversion, provided the applicant demonstrates that the overall process is technically feasible, economically feasible and ready for pilot-scale field testing at the well site. Proposals must include information on the performance of the technology to date and clearly illustrate pre-commercial status of the system in terms of its potential economic viability. Adequate consideration must also be given on how the proposed system will be deployed at the specific wellsite selected as part of the project. This should include details on any required construction and include consideration for existing infrastructure and the topology of the field site. Detailed discussion should also be included on the planned operation of the system at the well site that clearly establishes the daily target volume of natural gas that will be processed and/or converted, the required utilities, and the volume per day of any product and/or waste streams. The objective of such R&D would be to accelerate development of technologies that improve efficiency of upstream natural gas and oil processing and separation operations using novel approaches that would support the evolving regulatory landscape to drastically reduce or eliminate the use of flares at the wellhead through gas processing and/or conversion to other sustainable chemicals and low-carbon marketable products.

Contact

Email:

Phone:

412-386-9204

Source Type:

Federal

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