Boosting the Gas Production From Low-permeability Wells
The Department of Energy is adding two new projects to its program to develop new technologies that can increase natural gas production from low-permeability, or "tight," reservoirs.
The new projects - to be carried out by Advanced Resources International, Arlington, Va., and Cementing Solutions, Houston - were selected for federal cost-sharing when Congress increased DOE's budget for natural gas research in fiscal year 2002. They will join two earlier projects selected last August. All four projects had been proposed in an industry-wide competition run earlier this year by the Energy Department's Strategic Center for Natural Gas, part of the government's National Energy Technology Laboratory.