Improved Oil and Gas Recovery and Produced Water Management Technologies
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: July 6, 2026
Archive date: October 8, 2026
Close date: September 8, 2026
Opportunity ID: 363065
Opportunity number: DE-FOA-0003627
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: National Energy Technology Laboratory
Agency code: DOE-NETL
Award floor: $1
Award ceiling: $150,000,000
Cost sharing required: Yes
Funding Instrument Types
- Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
- Energy
- Natural Resources
Eligible Applicants
- Unrestricted
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:doe_netl
- category_of_funding_activity:energy
- category_of_funding_activity:natural_resources
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
- eligible_applicants:unrestricted
- funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Modification 000001: Issued to change the Full Application date; modified NOFO Part 1. No other changes have been. Please see the NOFO Part 1 for the full description of the modification. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will seek proposals for specific research and development (R&D) projects to improve recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and natural gas reservoirs and to advance technologies for the treatment of flowback and produced water from oil and natural gas production operations. Despite increasing energy for demand, recovery efficiency for oil and natural gas from unconventional reservoirs can average less than 10 percent. This NOFO will enable rapid field deployment of a variety of novel technologies and processes related to improving primary and enhanced recovery with the goal of significantly improving resource recovery and accelerating industry uptake. This NOFO will also support the field testing and validation of water treatment technologies of produced water from oil and natural gas production operations to avoid deep well injection and potential issues with induced seismicity and interaction with underground sources of drinking water.