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02.14.2012
President Requests $650.8 Million for Fossil Energy Programs
President Obama’s FY 2013 budget seeks $650.8 million for the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) to support improved energy security and rapid development of climate-oriented technology. The request includes $420.6 million for Fossil Energy Research and Development, $195.6 million for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, $10.1 million for the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (and includes a $6 million rescission of prior year funds), $14.9 million for the Naval Petroleum Reserves and $15.6 million for the Elk Hills School Land Fund.
 
02.10.2012
Chu in Pittsburgh: "We Need an All-Out, All-of-the-Above Strategy that Develops Every Available Source of American Energy"

Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu joined Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to tour a range of research facilities at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), meet with local business leaders and stakeholders in the natural gas industry, and highlight local investments in cutting-edge energy innovations that are laying the building blocks for an American economy built to last.
 
02.10.2012
Remote Gas Well Monitoring Technology Applied to Marcellus Shale Site
A technology to remotely monitor conditions at energy-rich Marcellus Shale gas wells to help insure compliance with environmental requirements has been developed through a research partnership funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
 
02.09.2012
Fossil Energy Know-How Helps Heart Patients
For their work developing a new metal alloy that has dramatically improved coronary stents used in patients with heart problems, three scientists at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are set to receive the Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.
 
02.07.2012
New Models Help Optimize Development of Bakken Shale Resources

Exploration and field development in the largest continuous oil play in the lower 48 states, located in North Dakota and eastern Montana, will be guided by new geo-models developed with funding from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE).
 
02.02.2012
Follow the Progress of DOE's Alaska Gas Hydrate Field Test

FE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory and its project partners are testing innovative technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits on the Alaska North Slope.