National Energy Technology Laboratory; Notice of Availability of a Financial Assistance Solicitation

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Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26-01NT40869 entitled "Methane Hydrates." This solicitation supports the Department of Energy's Strategic Plan to develop the knowledge base for assessing the vast deposits of methane hydrates and to promote the technology for their safe and effective recovery. The solicitation is being issued by the Natural Gas Hydrate Program which is part of NETL's Strategic Center for Natural Gas. This solicitation will focus on gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Slope of Alaska. These are the two principal regions of industry interest, primarily because they contain known occurrences of hydrates the existing infrastructure for drilling and production of conventional hydrocarbons.