(FOA)-DOE/NETL
- Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Oil Recovery (DE-FOA-0001988); January 24,
2019
Agency
Department
of Energy – National Energy Technology Laboratory
Description
The
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL) has released DE-FOA-0001988 entitled “DOE/NETL - Advanced
Technologies for Enhanced Oil Recovery". The objectives of this FOA are
to solicit and competitively seek research applications to accelerate the
development and application of technologies for enhancing the recovery of
petroleum from both onshore conventional and unconventional reservoirs through
the injection of chemical, miscible, or thermal fluids. It should be noted that
applications for developing and testing technologies, methods and practices for
enhancing oil recovery over and above current productions from unconventional
reservoirs that do not involve the injection of EOR fluids (e.g., improving
fracturing treatments, enhanced well completion design) are solicited in a
separate FOA, titled DE-FOA-0001990, Advanced Technologies for Recovery of
Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources.
The
two Areas of Interest (AOIs) for this FOA are:
AOI
1 – Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Conventional Resources (with two
subtopic areas)
1.
AOI
- 1A
shall focus on the development of new EOR methodologies, technologies or
processes designed to significantly improve performance in existing EOR wells
and fields where underperformance is due to technology deficits. “Existing EOR
well or field” is defined as an EOR well/well field that is commercially
operational with all required infrastructure in place prior to the publication
date of this FOA. DOE is seeking the application of new technologies,
operational approaches/methodologies based off fundamental laboratory research,
advanced models, and where applicable, the application of data analytics and
machine learning to substantially increase the recover efficiency in these
existing EOR fields.
2.
AOI
- 1B
shall focus on the development of new EOR methodologies, tools, or processes
designed for application in un-tested reservoir/play locations that completed
primary and/or secondary recovery but have yet to pursue tertiary recovery. This
may include laboratory study and validation mechanisms but must
include field validation of the prescribed EOR methodology, tool or technology
at a field site. Here, the term “untested location” is defined as either a new
formation within a field where an existing EOR project is underway, or a new
field in a producing area where no similar EOR methods have been applied
previously but may be conducive for miscible flooding.
AOI
2 – Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Unconventional
Resources
Some
examples of areas where research could improve understanding of unconventional
EOR include the development and testing of:
Novel
huff-n-puff methods utilizing miscible gases (e.g., associated gas,
CO2), where the research is focused on defining and quantifying the
relationships among specific rock/fluid characteristics, stimulated rock volume,
well completion design, injected fluid volumes and pressures,
injection/production period timing (soak times), and incremental
productions
Fundamental
laboratory research into the potential for miscible gas and chemical flooding
EOR methods in specific tight oil plays utilizing actual core material and
detailed reservoir characterizations (e.g., not simply modeling exercises).
This research must be accompanied by a field test to verify the viability of
the fundamental research.
Announcement
Number
DE-FOA-0001988
Closing
Date
Concept
Papers: January 25, 2019
Applications:
March 22, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=311501
Contact
Information
Nicole
E. Murray
412-386-7263