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A -- OIL TECHNOLOGY R & D PROGRAM SOL DE-RA26-98BC15200 POC Martin Byrnes (412) 892-4486 e-mail byrnes@fetc.doe.gov fax (412) 892-6216 WEB: click here to download a copy of the Solicitation Synopsis, http://www.fetc.doe.gov/business/solicit/solicit.html. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via e-mail, byrnes@fetc.doe.gov. ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF SOLICITATION. This Program Research Development Announcement (PRDA) is sponsored through the National Petroleum Technology Office, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the implementing program office for the Department of Energy (DOE) Fossil Energy's National Oil Program. The primary mission of the National Oil Program is to conduct oil related research and development activities by expanding the knowledge base through which industry can bring additional oil resources and new technology options into the marketplace in a cost-effective and environmentally acceptable manner. The general objective of this PRDA is to support research which supplements and complements, but does not duplicate or displace private and other public research and development efforts. The purpose is to solicit cost shared research and development proposals addressing five broad Areas of Interest, including: (1) Advanced Diagnostics and Imaging Systems, (2) Production Research, (3) Integrated Prospecting Concepts,(4) Processing Research, and (5) Oil and Gas Environmental Research. Each proposal shall target one of the following eighteen (18) Technical Topics (i.e., not the Area of Interest) and should focus on cost effectively improving current technologies. Area of Interest #1 -- Advanced Diagnostics and Imaging Systems: -- Pore scale imaging, -- Wettability and imbibition, -- In-situ relative permeability, or -- Up-scaling techniques. Area of Interest #2 -- Production Research: -- Gas Flooding, -- Chemical Flooding, -- Microbial Flooding, -- Heavy Oil Recovery, -- Novel Processes, or -- Reservoir Simulation. Area of Interest #3 -- Integrated Prospecting Concepts: -- Modeling of dynamic sedimentary hydrocarbon systems, or -- Risk Assessment technology. Area of Interest #4 -- Processing Research: -- Pollution Prevention, or -- PM2.5 Science-Based Regulations. Area of Interest #5 -- Oil and Gas Environmental Research —Soil Remediation, -- Air Emissions, -- Innovative Waste and Produced Water Management, or -- Risk Assessment/Streamlining. A minimum cost share of twenty (20) percent of the total estimated cost is required. This solicitation will be made available via the internet as a Word Perfect 6.1 (Windows) document or in the Portable Document Format (PDF) on the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.fetc.doe.gov (select "solicitations") on or about March 2, 1998 and that the closing date for submission of proposals will be 45 days after issuance of the solicitation. If you do not have access to the internet you can request a disc copy of the solicitation by writing to the address listed in this announcement to the attention of Martin Byrnes. No telephone requests will be honored. (0043)

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