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72216-This project will develop and demonstrate a seismic data processing technology that facilitates exploration in complex geologic areas, improves reservoir characterization for both oil and gas, increases the accuracy of estimating petrophysical attributes, and decreases the costs of exploratory drilling and failed secondary recovery injection projects. The approach will use both three-dimens ...

76164-The economical production of natural gas from conventional and low permeability gas resources requires additional advances in exploration and production technologies. In particular, diagnostic and imaging technologies are needed to assess the effectiveness of new extraction techniques related to drilling, completion, and stimulation. This project will develop three-dimensional, multicompon ...

72494-This project will use microbiological bioconversion technology in situ to convert sequestered greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into methane and other useful organic compounds. Indigenous anaerobic bacteria will be added to coal along with supplemental nutrients to stimulate bioconversion. In Phase I, a large number of coal samples were collected from coalbed ...

72494-This project will use microbiological bioconversion technology in situ to convert sequestered greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into methane and other useful organic compounds. Indigenous anaerobic bacteria will be added to coal along with supplemental nutrients to stimulate bioconversion. In Phase I, a large number of coal samples were collected from coalbed ...

72593-Methane has a global warming potential 21 times greater than carbon dioxide and a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere. Therefore, on a ton-by-ton basis, technology that targets methane emissions would mitigate global warming at a faster rate than the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Because methane recovery from coal mines and landfills is economically driven, and recovery proje ...

72593-Methane has a global warming potential 21 times greater than carbon dioxide and a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere. Therefore, on a ton-by-ton basis, technology that targets methane emissions would mitigate global warming at a faster rate than the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Because methane recovery from coal mines and landfills is economically driven, and recovery proje ...

THE TRAVEL TIMES OF COHERENT EVENTS IN SEISMIC SURVEYS OF THE CRUST PRINCIPALLY GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOW SPATIALFREQUENCY VELOCITY FIELD; DETAILS OF THE SEISMIC SIGNATURES OF BACKSCATTERED EVENTS PRINCIPALLY GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY OF THE VELOCITY AND DENSITY FIELDS (WHICH CAN BE REPRESENTED BY PSEUDO WELL LOGS). TRAVEL TIME INVERSION IS BEGINNING TO FIND PRACTICAL ...

76048-Storage tanks of contaminated mixtures exist at many DOE sites. However, very few inexpensive technologies are available for determining the contents of the tank waste or for monitoring the chemistry of tank constituents in near-real time. This project addresses this problem by developing and assessing ceramic-metallic-based microsensors that can determine the constituents of a liquid orga ...

76059-There is a substantial amount of buried transuranic waste (TRU) and mixed low-level waste (MLLW) stored at DOE sites around the nation. Recent efforts to remediate this waste have been hindered by lack of exact knowledge of the details of where and which materials were buried in several of the locations. Because these materials are hazardous to humans, it would be desirable to locate them ...

PLASTIC SCINTILLATING OPTICAL FIBERS (PSF) WILL PLAY A MAJORROLE AS RADIATION DETECTORS IN THE GIANT RESEARCH DEVICES ENVISIONED FOR THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER (SSC) AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR DEVICES PLANNED ABROAD. THIS PROJECT IS CONCERNED WITH ESTABLISHING A DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL SOURCE OF THIS NEW GENERATION DETECTION MEDIUM NEEDED FOR THE ADVANCEDPARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH TO BE CONDUCTED AT ...