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ARPA-E awarding $30M to 12 hybrid solar projects; conversion and storage

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Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. The University of Tulsa.

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Team at Saudi Aramco successfully field tests downhole drilling microchip system

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A team at Saudi Aramco’s EXPEC Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC), in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, recently achieved the first major field test milestone of its four-year project to develop the industry’s first downhole drilling microchip.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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Awards include: ALL Consulting, Tulsa, Okla. This project will develop a low-cost, mobile process to treat the total dissolved solids in the flowback water from hydraulic fracturing operations. The total proposed value for all selected projects is $10.2 million (DOE share: $6.9 General Electrical Company, Niskayuna, N.Y.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Julia Computing, Inc. Newton, Massachusetts).

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. Predictive Self-Healing Seals for Gas Transmission.

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