98-32994. Notice of Availability of Solicitation Entitled Reservoir Class Field Demonstration ProgramClass Revisit  

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 238 (Friday, December 11, 1998)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 68439-68440]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-32994]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
    
    
    Notice of Availability of Solicitation Entitled Reservoir Class 
    Field Demonstration Program--Class Revisit
    
    AGENCY: National Petroleum Technology Office (NPTO) through the Federal 
    Energy Technology Center (FETC), DOE.
    
    ACTION: Notice of Issuance of Financial Assistance Solicitation.
    
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    SUMMARY: The U. S. Department of Energy's National Petroleum Technology 
    Office (NPTO) in conjunction with the Federal Energy Technology Center 
    (FETC) announces that it intends to issue a competitive Program 
    Opportunity Notice (PON), DE-PS26-99BC15144, and to award financial 
    assistance (Cooperative Agreements) to qualified recipients. Through 
    the issuance of this PON, the DOE is presenting the next round of 
    solicitations which addresses U.S. vulnerability to supply disruptions 
    by expanding the domestic supply of oil production from the domestic 
    resource. Proposals will be subjected to a comparative merit review by 
    DOE technical panel, and awards will be made to a limited number of 
    proposers on the basis of the scientific merit of the proposals, 
    application of relevant program policy factors, and the availability of 
    funds.
    
    DATES: The Program Solicitation is expected to be ready for release on 
    or about December 18, 1998. Applications must be prepared and submitted 
    in accordance with the instructions and forms in the Program 
    Opportunity Notice and must be received by the DOE by April 1, 1999. 
    Prior to submitting your application to the solicitation, check for any 
    changes (i.e. closing date of solicitation) and/or amendments, if any.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Keith R. Miles, U.S. Department of 
    Energy, Federal Energy Technology Center, P.O. Box 10940 (MS 921-143), 
    Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0940; (Telephone: 412-892-5984; Facsimile: 412-
    892-6216; E-Mail: miles@fetc.doe.gov).
    
    ADDRESSES: The solicitation will be available through the Internet at 
    FETC's Home Page (http://www.fetc.doe.gov/business). TELEPHONE REQUESTS 
    WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ANY
    
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    FORMAT VERSION OF THE SOLICITATION.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This solicitation supports two of the 1998 
    Comprehensive National Energy Strategy (CNES) goals, which are (1) to 
    ensure against energy disruptions and (2) to promote energy production 
    and use in ways that reflect human health and environmental values. The 
    focus is to reduce U. S. vulnerability to supply disruptions by 
    expanding the domestic oil supply. Petroleum reservoirs have been 
    classified based on the geology of the reserve and the environment of 
    deposition. Depositional environments of the fluvial dominated deltaic 
    type (Class I), shallow shelf carbonates (Class II), and slope and 
    basin clastics (Class III), support these goals because they contain 
    50% of the domestic remaining oil in place. Further background material 
    is given in the DOE Oil and Gas R & D Programs (DOE/FE-0359, March 
    1997) document. The strategy targets three groups of depositionally 
    similar reservoirs based on the premise that demonstrated methodologies 
    and technologies that overcome specific producibility problems in 
    representative reservoirs have a higher probability of being applicable 
    to other members of that same class than to non-class reservoirs. This 
    solicitation addresses program goals of preserving access to reservoirs 
    with high potential for increased productivity. These goals will be 
    accomplished by conducting technology transfer activities that motivate 
    operators to identify producibility problems and apply underutilized 
    technologies to overcome these problems.
        These reservoirs represent the higher priority reservoir classes. 
    An assessment of about 2000 domestic reservoirs in the Total Oil 
    Recovery Information System (TORIS) showed these classes to have a 
    large volume of remaining oil, a large potential for additional 
    recovery using conventional recovery technologies, and a high risk of 
    abandonment of the resource in the next five years.
        Advanced recovery technologies represent a significant improvement 
    in process effectiveness (i.e., greater sweep efficiencies, improved 
    economics, or evaluation techniques) or applicability over currently 
    available technologies or represent a new or innovative technology not 
    successfully demonstrated in the field.
        Advanced technologies, as defined in this PON, include advanced 
    reservoir characterization techniques, advanced recovery technologies 
    and advanced reservoir management techniques. The understanding of the 
    interaction of the reservoir architecture is essential to these 
    advanced technologies. These technologies should not have been 
    previously addressed in the same region and reservoir class. DOE 
    discourages repeating the same suite of technologies in the same plays 
    as the previous class programs.
        Some examples of advanced technologies or some combination of 
    technologies are:
    
    Advanced Reservoir Characterization Technologies or Tools:
    
         New geophysical imaging or interpretation techniques.
         Three-dimensional simulation.
         Advanced or high resolution 3-D seismic.
         Geochemical techniques.
         Advanced well and tracer tests.
         Advanced logging techniques such as borehole imaging or 
    permeability logging.
    
    Advanced Recovery Technologies:
    
         Mobility control agents.
         Steam processes.
         Gas processes.
         Horizontal & lateral(s) (radial) wells.
         Miscible solvents.
         Chemical processes.
         In-situ combustion.
    
    Advanced Reservoir Management Techniques
    
         Reservoir modeling/simulation.
         Fracture stimulation.
         New geostatistical methodologies.
         Novel or innovative recompletions.
         Injection strategies and pressure maintenance.
         Material balance decline curve techniques.
    
        Note: Pure tool development is excluded under this solicitation.
    
        DOE currently has available $8.3 million for this Program 
    Opportunity Notice (PON) and intends to bring total DOE support to $18 
    million for this solicitation. Projects must include: reservoir 
    characterization (Budget Period 1), demonstration/field activities 
    (Budget Period 2), continued project monitoring activities (Budget 
    Period 3); moreover, technology transfer should be a major component of 
    all Budget Period activities and should aim to motivate operators 
    toward broader application of cost-effective technologies/
    methodologies. It is anticipated that between 10-20 cost-shared awards, 
    with a total project value estimated at $1.5 million to $10.0 million 
    each (i.e., DOE share of project costs estimated at between $500K-
    $3,000K), will be made under this solicitation. The proposer must cost 
    share at least 55 percent of the total allowable cost of Budget Period 
    1 for reservoir characterization, at least 65 percent of the total 
    allowable cost of Budget Period 2 for the demonstration phase, and at 
    least 90 percent of the total allowable cost of Budget Period 3 for 
    continued project monitoring activities. Each project is expected to 
    have a period of performance of approximately five (5) to six (6) 
    years.
    
        Issued in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 2, 1998.
    Dale A. Siciliano,
    Contracting Officer, Acquisition and Assistance Division.
    [FR Doc. 98-32994 Filed 12-10-98; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
12/11/1998
Department:
Energy Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Action:
Notice of Issuance of Financial Assistance Solicitation.
Document Number:
98-32994
Dates:
The Program Solicitation is expected to be ready for release on or about December 18, 1998. Applications must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the instructions and forms in the Program Opportunity Notice and must be received by the DOE by April 1, 1999. Prior to submitting your application to the solicitation, check for any changes (i.e. closing date of solicitation) and/or amendments, if any.
Pages:
68439-68440 (2 pages)
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