April 2, 2013

Deepwater Oil & Gas Resources

The United States has significant natural gas and oil reserves. But many of these resources are increasingly harder to locate and bring into production. To help meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy over the ye...

April 2, 2013

A Legacy of Benefit

Over more than three decades, FE research and development has established a legacy of significant achievement and return of value and benefits for the public funds invested.

April 2, 2013

Return on Investment

Since its creation in 1977, the DOE's Office of Fossil Energy has established a legacy of achievement, return-of-value, and tangible benefits for the taxpayer dollars invested.

April 2, 2013

Natural Gas from Shale

Office of Fossil Energy research helped refine cost-effective horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies, protective environmental practices and data development, making hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas technically recoverable ...

April 2, 2013

Methane Hydrate R&D

Natural gas is an important energy resource for the United States, providing nearly one-quarter of total energy use. The Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has played a major role in developing technologies to help tap new, unconventional...

April 2, 2013

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Thanks in part to innovations supported by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory over the past 30 years, the United States is a world leader in the number of EOR projects and volume of oil production from this method.