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Undocumented Orphaned Well Characterization Remediation

Announcement Number
DE-FOA-0003343
Announcement Type
Funding Opportunity Announcement
Opening Date
09-13-2024
Closing Date
11-13-2024
Contract Specialist
Bethany Swauger
Office
Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
Details

Original Closing Date: 11/13/2024 at 5:00pm ET

This is a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. This announcement aligns with Department of Energy's Office of Resource Sustainability’s Methane Mitigation Technologies Program to develop advanced tools and technologies that will significantly reduce methane emissions and other environmental impacts associated with undocumented orphaned wells. This announcement will be focused on addressing the technical challenges of measuring, quantifying, and mitigating methane emissions from undocumented orphaned wells.  This announcement will support the undocumented orphaned wells subprogram by soliciting research on new processes and development of new materials, tools, and technologies for wellbore characterization, effective plugging, and abandonment operations, and pre and post plugging and abandonment emissions monitoring. Instructions for this FOA can be found at FedConnect.

Modification 000001: The purpose of Modification 000001 is to inform potential applicants that awards issued under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will adopt the 2024 Revisions to 2 CFR and subsection vi. Technical Volume File - Mandatory Other Attachment of section IV was revised.