March 6, 2014
FE’s Ultra-Deepwater Program focuses on spill prevention, safety and environmental stewardship
Nearly everyone recognizes that prudent development of domestic oil and natural gas resources will continue to be an important part of U.S. energy strategy for decades to come. How important depends a lot on conducting operations responsibly, ensuring...
January 7, 2014
Alert! Industry and Academia — The Energy Department Seeks Your Novel Ideas for Advanced Energy Systems
Do you care about power and our environment? Are you buzzing with innovative ideas? If so, the Energy Department wants to hear your new and creative concepts for improving the cost and performance of power or industrial systems that depend on fossil e...
January 7, 2014
Celebrating a Decade of Carbon Storage Research Through Partnership
For the past decade, the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has managed a nationwide network of partnerships that team government, industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations to identify the best approaches for perman...
December 18, 2013
Uncovering Coal’s Secrets Through the University Coal Research Program
The challenges confronting the environmentally sound use of our country’s fossil energy resources are best addressed through collaborative research and development. That’s why this approach, which stretches federal dollars, is at the heart of the O...
December 4, 2013
Houston Visit Highlights People and Programs Helping the Office of Fossil Energy Fulfill Its Mission
When I joined the Office of Fossil Energy as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas this past September, three areas made an immediate impression: the office’s highly innovative research and development portfolio; the expertise of FE staf...
November 26, 2013
EDX - Share and Share Alike
At NETL, sharing energy technical knowledge and expertise just got a whole lot easier. The Laboratory’s Office of Research and Development has recently launched the Energy Data eXchange, or EDX, a knowledge-sharing network built to provide a single s...
November 20, 2013
Energy Department Assisting Launch of Low Greenhouse Gas–Emitting Jet Fuels
On behalf of the Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force, the Energy Department is seeking research projects that would lead to the commercial production of coal-derived jet fuel. Creating jet fuels from coal capitalizes on an abundant domestic en...
November 14, 2013
Rewarding Green: NETL Recognized for Sustainable Buildings
A new awards program initiated by the U.S. Department of Energy Sustainability Performance Office has recognized a building at the National Energy Technology Laboratory as a high-performance sustainable building — a model of DOE’s five guiding prin...
October 29, 2013
Wellbore Cement: Research That Begins Where the Sidewalk Ends
As we meander down the sidewalk, how many of us give more than a passing thought to the cement underfoot? Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory think about deteriorating cement a lot, with an aim to preserving its character and prote...
October 25, 2013
NETL Technologies Recognized for Technology Development, Transfer
This fall, a total of three technologies developed at the National Energy Technology Laboratory will be honored by two of the Federal Laboratory Consortium's six regional divisions.