NETL researchers demonstrated that naturally occurring signals in underground fluids can serve as effective indicators of flow patterns between existing oil and gas wellbores — a discovery that can help decision makers understand the interactions between wells to optimize the efficiency and safety of oil and gas production.

NETL’s Ruishu Wright has been selected as an honoree for the prestigious 2025 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals in the Emerging Leader category for her groundbreaking work developing novel sensor technologies aimed at monitoring critical infrastructure and preventing catastrophic failures.

NETL researchers are leading efforts to reduce mineral scaling in hydraulic fracturing operations, which can compromise wellbore integrity, obstruct the flow of gas and oil from unconventional reservoirs and impede the expansion of U.S. energy production.

Because of growing interest in using offshore saline reservoirs in the Gulf of America for geologic carbon storage (GCS), NETL has developed a cost modeling tool that enables users to secure an accurate technoeconomic analysis of GCS possibilities in offshore areas.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visited NETL’s site in Morgantown, West Virginia, to tour the Lab’s cutting-edge facilities and see first-hand how the Lab’s distinguished researchers are working to unleash American energy dominance, strengthening our national security and leading the world in innovation.

NETL released an updated version of its popular open-source tool that helps industry decision makers, planners, and researchers calculate the cost of transporting carbon dioxide (CO2) by pipeline from capture points to where it can be stored underground or converted into useful products.

NETL has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Critical Materials Innovation Hub to expand research that transforms single-use water bottles, shopping bags and other waste plastic into a valuable, unconventional feedstock for manufacturing high-quality graphite.

When NETL’s Dirk Van Essendelft first met with leaders of the American artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems Inc. in October 2019, he quickly realized the potential of the company’s groundbreaking Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) to revolutionize how the Lab modeled energy systems.

NETL has released the latest version of its award-winning Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges (MFiX) — a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software suite designed to shorten the time and reduce the cost associated with developing new power generation technologies.

NETL’s Deputy Chief Operating Officer Scott Tyner and Associate Director for Energy Efficiency and Manufacturing Joel Chaddock have been named as 2025 Oppenheimer Science & Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) fellows — a year-long program of the National Laboratory Directors' Council (NLDC) designed to develop and empower exceptional leaders within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories.