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| | Eva Garland Consulting | Dr. Eva Garland | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) was established by Dr. Eva Garland in 2013 with a mission to advance science. Over the past decade, EGC has emerged as a global leader in securing non-dilutive funding and providing comprehensive accounting, compliance, tax, and advisory services.
EGC has successfully assisted clients in securing and managing hundreds of grants and contracts, including large DOE awards, totaling over $2 billion. EGC’s 3,000+ clients, spanning 50 states and 5 continents, include universities, startups, large companies, and government agencies. EGC is proud to have supported our clients in progressing technologies from concept to commercialization, contributing new tools to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Built on our principle of Excellence, EGC adopts a tailored and thorough strategy to assist every client in achieving their fundraising objectives.
Through our Proposal Support Services, clients collaborate directly with EGC’s Scientific Grants Experts, all of whom hold Ph.D.s and have deep experience securing funding from numerous government agencies and private foundations. Our services include:
• Writing and submitting proposals
• Support with registrations and budget preparation
• Critical scientific review and editing
• Strategies to increase the competitiveness of the grant applications
Our Experts also craft Strategic Non-Dilutive Funding Plans to meet the specific needs of each of our clients, which include:
• Identification and prioritization of non-dilutive funding opportunities
• Gantt chart of proposal preparation, submission, and funding timelines
• Resources required to support grant submissions
• Strategies to increase competitiveness of grant submissions
Our team’s expertise spans over 100 federal and state agencies and private foundations, which collectively provide over $1 trillion in funding opportunities each year |
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| | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Kayla Kroll | Subsurface Energy Associate Program Leader |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) offers integrated capabilities in geothermal systems, oil and gas, enhanced oil recovery, geochemistry, geophysics, critical mineral and rare earth element identification and separation, advanced scientific computing, and ML/AI. We are interested in partnering with teams developing transformative approaches for subsurface stimulation, reservoir management, produced fluid utilization, and resource recovery. Our strength is in combining high-fidelity physics-based modeling, advanced characterization, geochemical and geophysical diagnostics, and data-driven methods to accelerate technology development from concept through field validation.
LLNL supports projects involving:
advanced stimulation and reservoir access in geothermal, unconventional oil and gas, and EOR settings
coupled fracture evolution, fluid flow, heat transfer, geomechanics, induced seismicity, and geochemical response
field and pilot-scale studies involving produced fluids, brines, residual solids, and subsurface process optimization
identification, extraction, and separation of critical minerals and REEs from unconventional feed streams
AI-enabled monitoring, prediction, and optimization for complex subsurface systems
Our capabilities include high-fidelity multiphysics simulation, including GEOS, for fracture initiation and propagation, reservoir stimulation, EOR, cyclic loading, and recovery optimization; geochemistry and reactive transport for aqueous speciation, mineral solubility, fluid-rock interaction, scaling, corrosion, precipitation, and treatment or reinjection strategies; geophysics and subsurface diagnostics for fracture characterization, reservoir heterogeneity assessment, monitoring integration, and stimulation evaluation; and critical mineral and REE process science for characterization of brines, produced waters, and residual solids, along with extraction and separation process development.
LLNL also brings advanced computing, machine learning, and AI for large-scale multiphysics simulation, surrogate modeling, rapid screening, data fusion, predictive analytics, and uncertainty reduction. We are well positioned to contribute across proposal phases, from concept definition and modeling through diagnostics, experimental support, data interpretation, and technical strategy, especially where success depends on integrating subsurface physics, chemistry, and computation to de-risk deployment and im |
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| | Ekion Pty Ltd | Henning Prommer | Director and CSO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Ekion is an Australian company developing and commercializing EK-ISR (Electro-Kinetic In-Situ Recovery), a low-impact extractive technology that uses controlled electric fields to selectively mobilize and recover target metal ions directly from intact low-permeability ore bodies and tailings without excavation. EK-ISR has been demonstrated at bench and column scale for copper, rare earth element (REE) bearing materials, and other metals, showing selective metal recovery.
Ekion is actively seeking US-based partners — mining operators, site owners, National Laboratories, academic groups, and engineering service providers — that could help facilitate one or more EK-ISR field trials at suitable US sites. We are particularly interested in host sites offering (a) Cu- or REE-bearing tailings where residual metal value is economically stranded, and (b) in-situ hard rock ore bodies containing Cu or REEs that are potentially amenable to electrokinetic recovery, including fractured porphyry, sediment-hosted, and ion-adsorption clay deposits. We welcome teaming on ARPA-E's Advanced Stimulation and Enhanced Recovery Technologies initiatives.
Ekion brings a dedicated, highly qualified EK-ISR R&D team with world-class expertise in geochemistry, hydrogeology, electrochemistry, hydrometallurgy, reactive transport modeling, and field-electrode engineering. The company currently operates small- and medium-scale laboratory-based electrokinetic experiments and performs reactive transport and geochemical model simulations. Ekion also developed modular field hardware (power control, electrode arrays, electrolyte management) designed for deployment to remote sites. Ekion holds granted and pending patents on the core process and is currently planning and undertaking its first field-scale pilot activities in Australia. Ekion can contribute in-kind equipment, process design, operations support, and senior technical personnel to a US field trial. We intend to participate as Project Team member consistent with ARPA-E eligibility requirements and can provide TEA and LCA inputs aligned with the program's translational and commercialization objectives. |
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| | Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, UT Austin | Hugh Daigle | Professor and Director |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin seeks partners on advanced stimulation and enhanced recovery technologies. We are a group of 27 researchers with expertise in petrophysics, formation evaluation applied to unconventionals, digital rock physics, reservoir engineering, hydraulic fracturing, geochemical and reactive transport modeling, geomechanics, critical mineral extraction, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to subsurface energy, high-performance computing, and enhanced oil recovery in unconventional resources using chemical and gas techniques.
Our facilities include world-class laboratories featuring medical-scale CT scanning and micro-CT; nuclear magnetic resonance; gas sorption; geomechanical testing; microfluidics; rheology, PVT, and other fluid analysis; and coreflooding. We have access to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), one of the most advanced academic supercomputing facilities in the world.
Our researchers have been working on resource recovery from unconventionals for decades, with hundreds of patents, conference papers, and peer-reviewed publications. Our work has received substantial support from government, foundations, and private industry. We are open to collaborations that leverage our capabilities, facilities, and connections with the broader energy industry. |
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| | University of California, San Diego | Ingrid Tomac | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| My background is in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics. I graduated with a PhD degree in engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, with the thesis titled “Micromechanical Aspects of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Proppant Flow and Transport for Stimulation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems – A Discrete Element Study”. The study focuses on hydraulic fracture initiation, propagation, proppant flow, transport, and proppant settling during hydraulic fracturing of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). The study developed, for the first time, a novel convective-conductive heat-transport Discrete Element Method (DEM) model to investigate hydro-thermo-mechanical fracturing processes and address current problems in hot-dry-rock fracturing. The new contributions were a micromechanical understanding of the coupling between fracturing fluid and rock behavior, the effects of fracturing fluid properties on fracture shape, branching, and secondary fracturing, and the relationship between tensile and shear microcracks. The study quantified the effects of the temperature difference between the fracturing fluid and the surrounding rock on fracture initiation and propagation, driven by the simultaneous heating of the fluid and cooling of the rock. The thesis also implemented new physics during particle collisions in the coupled Discrete Element Method with Computational Fluid Dynamics (DEM-CFD) to study horizontal proppant flow and transport in a narrow fracture zone and proppant settling in a narrow, rough granite fracture. A thin layer of fluid between two approaching particles yields the lubrication force that dissipates particle kinetic energy. As a result, in high-viscosity fluids, particles remain in proximity and begin to form agglomerates as the fluid flows around them. During my career in academia, I further refined the DEM models with my students and collaborators, which were published in top journals and conferences. My research interests remain in developing theoretical and numerical approaches in rock mechanics applicable to deep geothermal energy extraction, including hydro-thermo-chemo-mechanical processes in soils and rocks, inelastic fracture propagation in heterogeneous and fractured rock masses, and dense-phase particle-fluid interactions. |
| CA |
| | Uplift Geosystems LLC | Daniel Nothaft | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Uplift Geosystems is developing advanced electrodialysis devices that reduce cost, minimize waste, and improve safety in metallurgical processes. We use cutting-edge bipolar membranes and innovative reactor designs to deliver electrodialysis devices that provide best-in-class output acid concentrations and energy efficiency. Our technology enables regeneration of acids and bases across a wide range of leaching and separation applications, including those for rare earth elements (REE), nickel, and magnesium. |
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| | The University of Texas at Austin | Tongwei Zhang | Research Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Zhang, a research professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), The University of Texas at Austin, is an internationally recognized organic geochemist. His research primarily focuses on shale gas and oil storage mechanisms, hydrocarbon geochemistry and gas EOR in unconventional reservoirs, thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR) mechanisms and kinetics, and gas isotopic geochemistry in sedimentary basins. Dr. Zhang established the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory at BEG, The University of Texas at Austin. He has authored over 90 papers, many of which are highly cited, including six that are among the top 1% most cited articles in geosciences. Dr. Zhang received the 2015 Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award and the 2017 Hitchon Award from the International Association of Geochemistry.
Dr. Zhang forms a team of geologists, petroleum engineers, geoscientists and field operators for conducting a field gas-EOR pilot test. Currently, about 50% of US oil production comes from unconventional basins, where only around 10% of the mobile oil is recovered. Advanced technologies, such as gas-EOR, are essential to significantly increase recovery and achieve improved economic viability. Much of the work on EOR for unconventionals has focused on gas injection methods. We thoroughly reviewed the current understanding of gas Huff-n-Puff (HnP) technologies and found a lack of evaluation criteria for the success of HnP gas injection and its potential risks. Our goal in this study is to develop a criteria assessment workflow that combines laboratory simulation, reservoir modeling, and field pilot testing. Our plan for creating a gas HnP workflow includes three objectives: 1) to investigate new injectants that improve miscibility and sweep efficiency, 2) to identify optimal conditions for Huff-n-Puff injection, and 3) to trace oil contributions from the matrix versus the fractures during production.
A custom-built high-pressure and high-temperature gas adsorption apparatus enables us to simulate gas Huff-n-Puff injection. The gas intake experiment was conducted on 3/8” core plugs at high temperature. The process involves three steps: re-saturation of the core plugs with gas （up to 15,000 psia, rapid release of gas from the chamber, and degassing of the core plugs.
The integration of geology, engineering, modeling, and laboratory simulation ensures the objectives are practical and the completion of the key deliverables is likely to be successful. |
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| | Texas A&M University | M M Faruque Hasan | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My research expertise in the areas of physics constrained AI/ML for the modeling, design, optimization and technoeconomic analysis of energy process systems. I have developed novel hybrid modeling techniques that ensures the reliability of data-driven machine learning models that always follow governing equations and domain-knowledge. I am also an expert in techno-economic analysis (TEA), process design and scale-up. |
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| | Energy & Environmental Research Center | John Hamling | Assistant VP for Strategic Partnerships |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) has subject matter expertise in several of the technical areas relevant to the potential NOFO; further, the organization excels at undertaking complex field demonstrations and site evaluations related to unconventional oil and gas production and carbon dioxide storage, particularly in the Williston Basin, a region that includes the Bakken shale oil play. The EERC is a frequent collaborator with energy industry partners and complementary research institutions. We would welcome teaming arrangements that leverage the EERC’s capabilities to test client technology and/or collaborative efforts that integrate EERC concepts.
EERC Highlights
- Areas of expertise include: critical mineral (CM) resource characterization in shale oil formations and in waste streams from unconventional oil production; development and testing of CM extraction and recovery processes; reservoir modeling and simulation; and geologic materials characterization and data interpretation. This work is supported by in-house laboratories and computing facilities.
- Field tests are executed by EERC’s staff of engineers, scientists, and operators with the training and safety prerequisites necessary for onsite work at client sites.
- The EERC operates the Brine Technology Test Facility (BTTF), a 9,600 sq. ft. Class 1, Division 2-rated demonstration facility for produced water process demonstrations. The BTTF is located at a commercial salt water disposal facility in the Bakken and has access to 10,000 bbl/day of produced water, a salt water extraction well, and Class I and II disposal wells to support technology development and demonstration.
- The EERC is routinely the lead entity on large multi-partner DOE awards and has the internal systems to provide complete ARPA-E proposal development, and project management and reporting support. |
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| | Liberty Ion | Evan Erickson | CEO |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion is seeking to collaborate on teams responding to ARPA-E’s Advanced Stimulation and Enhanced Recovery Technologies NOFO. The firm helps applicants from start to finish, including building the right team, shaping a strong project narrative, developing a credible and competitive budget, calculating fringe and indirect rates, aligning key personnel, and handling the required application paperwork.
The firm’s founder previously led a battery cathode manufacturing company as CEO for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with energy technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects toward deployment. Our expertise in advanced energy manufacturing and deployment strategy translates well to emerging nuclear fuel ecosystems.
Liberty Ion has authored and managed many awarded DOE proposals. That mix of grant experience, technical background and real operating experience makes the firm a strong fit for applicants that need both a compelling proposal and practical support navigating the federal process. |
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| | The University of British Columbia | R. Marc Bustin | Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Marc Bustin is currently a professor at the University of British Columbia where he leads a research group focused on enhanced hydrocarbon recovery from unconventional reservoirs. Bustin's research laboratory is focused on characterization of unconventional reservoir rocks, and fluid-fluid and fluid-rock reactions including the use and impact of solvents and surfactants on EOR. Our laboratory includes commercial and built for purpose equipment for core analyses that are designed to test and optimize EOR including evaluation of huff and puff and sweeps under various conditions. Bustin's current EOR research includes reservoir modeling and field test designs and implantation. Through industry calibration, Bustin's research team and Bustin as an independent consultant has participated in the testing and design and implementation of EOR field tests in numerous important gas and oil shales and heavy oil reservoirs.
Bustin background includes over 40 years in research on unconventional reservoirs. Bustin has worked a consultant in most basins world wide that host unconventional reservoirs |
Website: www.eoas.ubc.ca
Email: bustin@mail.ubc.ca
Phone: 6048176075
Address: Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The Univerisity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, v6t1z4, Canada
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| | EOR ETC LLC | Gordon Pospisil PE | VP of Business Development |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| EOR ETC is a small startup company. Our leadership team is made up of experienced senior leaders from oil and gas supermajors (Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips), independent operators (Liberty Energy) as well as widely recognized petroleum engineering faculty from several flagship academic programs. Our EOR process is delivered using a surface module, which is a small footprint skid-based unit that can be shipped and set on the well site in one trip. Our product eliminates extra facilities requirements and reduces compression requirements by a factor of up to ten times. Also, due to the reduced compression requirements, greenhouse gas impacts are much reduced, resulting in more efficient and environmentally friendly EOR project. In addition to the hardware, we assist with candidate selection and delivery of the EOR process. We have been granted a patent for this new technology which encompasses the unique delivery method, physical unit and automated control system. Our secret sauce is the algorithm for addressing water/gas phase segregation in downward vertical flow. Our patented process enables low-pressure gas injection to deliver high bottomhole pressures, which what not previously possible. Uniquely our EOR process brings to bare multiple EOR mechanisms: 1) spontaneous imbibition (from surfactant injection), 2) multi-contact miscibility (from gas injection), 3) re-pressurization, and 4) gas mobility control (through our new micro water-alternating-gas process).
We are interested in collaborating on field pilots at industry test-sites. Specifically, a full-pad injection pilots to reach Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) in pad area Frac system using multi-well, multi-cycle co-injection. We also have interest in pilots that expand our proven low surface pressure (1,200 psig) process to higher pressure (2,200 psig) co-injection and CO2 co-injection.
EOR ETC has a highly experienced team that has successfully delivered pilot project in 3 basins for multiple operators from large to small. We have built a robust and highly mobile surface module to deliver the co-injection process and have experienced operators and automation for 24-hour monitoring of the process. Our system can be delivered in 2-3 months versus 18-24 months for high-pressure compressors and can use existing gas-lift gas distribution systems and produced or frac water. |
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| | Texas Tech University | Dr Stuart L Scott | Herald W. Winkler Chair and Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| Dr Stuart L Scott has a career encompassing both industry and academic roles in onshore/unconventional and deepwater/subsea oil and gas production. He has a proven track record identifying high value, shovel-ready technologies and leading business impactful field pilot projects for both Shell Oil and ConocoPhillips. He recently joined Texas Tech University (TTU) as the inaugural holder of the Herald W. Winkler Chair of Petroleum Engineering. He is a Fellow of the ASME and a Distinguished SPE Member. The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering has deep ties to the Permian Basin and is ideally suited to lead the field demonstration projects that are necessary for the rapid deployment of EOR in unconventional reservoirs. Uniquely, TTU has large-scale test facilities including 3 wells to support field pilots at our Oilfield Technology Center (OTC).
Our interest is in leading a full-pad, field demonstration project on gas-liquid co-injection EOR in collaboration with other institutions. The goal would be to demonstrate the doubling of recovery by multiple huff & puff injection cycles in all wells on the pad in a round-robin fashion. If successful, this would prove that a second phase of production is possible in unconventional reservoirs. With an estimated 3 trillion barrel OOIP in the 3 largest USA unconventional reservoirs, EOR could provide a 100+ billion barrel impact through an accelerated adoption program applied at scale. Also of interest are: 1) diversion methods - allowing EOR injection to target specific frac clusters along the lateral length over multiple injection cycles and 2) physics informed machine learning - for EOR optimization.
Dr Scott’s focus in the EOR area has been on the delivery process, ie. developing methods to make EOR economical and efficient by utilizing existing infrastructure. He is inventor of gas-liquid co-injection EOR and co-author of the patent on the “Rapid Switch Stacked Slug” injection process. This method utilizes produced gas, pulled from existing gas lift systems, and water pulled from existing frac/produced water systems to get costs in the $10-20 /BO range. In addition, TTU has expertise on adopting artificial lift systems to long lateral horizontal wells and the special issues associated with the new 2nd phase of production provided by EOR. This is an important aspect of production efficiency that could be investigated in a field pilot and via large-scale testing in wells at TTU OTC. |
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| | NGL Energy Partners | Ryan Hall | Director of Technical Operations |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| NGL is able to provide samples of our produced water and residual solids material, and provide historical characterization data on our materials. We are also able to provide access for field demonstrations at one of our locations.
NGL is the nation’s largest produced water midstream handling over 3 million barrels per day (126MGD). We operate in the DJ (Colorado), Eagle Ford (Texas) and Permian Basin (Texas and NM) with 80% of our operations in the Permian. We are the first to receive a draft Texas TCEQ discharge permit for treated produced water. This operation will also generate a concentrated brine stream approaching 250g/L.
In addition to our PW we also generate approx. 150 tons per day of solids that have recoverable levels of multiple rare earth elements. These solids are trucked to one of two slurry injection wells in the Permian basin. This material is analogous to coal ash residual and is an emerging industrial waste stream ripe for resource recovery. |
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| | University of Wyoming | Soheil Saraji | Department Head & Associate Professor |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Multidisciplinary Advanced Stimulation Laboratory (MASL) at the University of Wyoming is a state-of-the-art research facility focused on advancing subsurface energy systems, with particular emphasis on improving primary recovery in unconventional reservoirs. MASL integrates experimental geomechanics, fluid dynamics, and advanced reservoir characterization to address critical challenges in energy production, storage, and sustainability.
Our research capabilities span stimulation fluid design, proppant transport, rock–fluid interactions, and multiscale reservoir characterization using advanced experimental and imaging techniques. The laboratory enables controlled high-pressure, high-temperature experimentation to study fracture behavior, flow mechanisms, and coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes relevant to subsurface systems.
In parallel, we leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop predictive models and digital twins that bridge laboratory observations with field-scale applications, improving decision-making and operational efficiency. This integrated experimental–computational framework positions MASL as a unique platform for translating fundamental insights into deployable technologies.
Our interests include collaborative research in unconventional oil and gas recovery, geothermal energy, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and critical mineral recovery from subsurface systems. We actively seek partnerships with a industry, cademia, and national laboratories to co-develop innovative solutions, validate emerging technologies, and accelerate the transition from lab-scale discovery to field implementation.
MASL is particularly well-suited for multidisciplinary teaming efforts that require integration of experimental validation, data-driven modeling, and real-world deployment in complex subsurface environments. |
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| | National Laboratory of the Rockies | Drazenka Svedruzic | Senior Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| A. Precision Porosity Management: Bio-Enhanced Materials for Subsurface Integrity Our research focuses on the intersection of additive manufacturing and biocatalysis to provide zonal isolation and structural reinforcement during advanced stimulation. In the context of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and fossil fuel recovery, "stimulation" requires not only the creation of flow paths (increasing porosity) but also the precise containment of those fluids to prevent bypass and leakage.
• Interests: We seek to partner with teams developing protocols where maintaining wellbore integrity and diverting flow from high-permeability "thief zones" is critical for efficiency.
• Capabilities:
o Controlled Mineralization: Utilizing biocatalytic calcification (e.g., thermostable carbonic anhydrase) to induce in situ mineral precipitation. This allows for the engineered reduction of porosity in specific subsurface zones to ensure stimulation energy is directed toward the target reservoir.
o 3D-Printable Bio-Hybrids: Advanced formulation of cementitious materials that can be "printed" or placed to create durable, self-healing barriers. These materials are designed to sustain mechanical integrity in chemically aggressive environments, mitigating the risk of induced seismicity or fluid migration into non-target strata.
B. AI-Enabled Chemical Speciation for Real-Time Stimulation Monitoring Effective subsurface stimulation relies on high-fidelity feedback loops. We provide an integrated Field-applicable ML/AI-driven sensing platform designed to monitor the chemical evolution of a reservoir as porosity increases and fluids are recovered.
• Interests: We aim to integrate our sensing technology into field-scale pilots to track critical mineral recovery (e.g., Lithium) and to validate the success of stimulation treatments through real-time tracer and metal speciation analysis.
• Capabilities:
o Multivariate Field Diagnostics: Our radial microfluidic platform identifies complex chemical signatures in multi-component fluid streams, providing a direct "read" on how stimulation has altered the subsurface chemical environment.
o Autonomous Signal Deconvolution: By applying Machine Learning algorithms to complex immages, we enable operators to distinguish between successful stimulation (increased connectivity) and unintended fluid breakthroughs, allowing for dynamic adjustment of recovery operations. |
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| | Wellbore Consultants Inc | Ian Allahar | CEO |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Wellbore Consultants Inc. is developing HydraSTIM, a downhole pulse-based stimulation platform for improving recovery from low-permeability subsurface formations. HydraSTIM delivers short-duration, high-intensity hydraulic pulses directly downhole to enhance fracture initiation, fracture propagation, permeability development, and fluid access in unconventional reservoirs, geothermal systems, and selected critical mineral applications. By concentrating stimulation energy at depth, the approach is intended to improve recovery efficiency while reducing reliance on sustained high surface pressure and potentially lowering fluid consumption and wastewater burden.
Our interest in this teaming opportunity is to partner with organizations advancing transformative stimulation and enhanced recovery concepts for subsurface energy and mineral systems. HydraSTIM is well suited for collaborative projects involving advanced stimulation, reservoir access improvement, hydroshearing, cyclic pressure loading, fracture-network enhancement, and recovery optimization in tight formations.
Our capabilities include downhole tool concept development, transient hydraulic and pressure-pulse modeling, stimulation system design, engineering analysis, and integration into realistic wellbore operations. We are advancing the technology through analytical modeling, CFD/FEA-supported design refinement, pulse transmission studies, and validation planning for lab and field environments. The company also brings technical and commercialization focus in unconventional refracturing, EGS stimulation, and emerging subsurface recovery applications. HydraSTIM is supported by patent protection, technical presentations, and published work. We seek partners in laboratory validation, subsurface diagnostics, field demonstration, modeling, techno-economics, and resource-specific deployment to build a strong team aligned with ARPA-E’s translational mission. |
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| | National Laboratory of the Rockies | Mark Chung | Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) Lead for Subsurface |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| The Hydrogen Systems Analysis group at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) offers world-class expertise in techno-economic analysis (TEA), resource assessment, and financial modeling to support the extraction and recovery of geologic hydrogen. Our team has been supporting HFTO with expert TEA for many decades and are the creators of key TEA models such as H2A and H2FAST. Our team provides the rigorous analytical foundation necessary to meet ARPA-E’s goal of doubling per-well recovery efficiency while maintaining cost-competitiveness.
Core Capabilities & Tools:
• Techno-Economic Modeling: We utilize industry-leading tools like H2A-Lite and H2FAST to conduct high-level and in-depth financial analyses, evaluating the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) and investment risks for emerging production technologies.
• Geospatial & Infrastructure Analysis: Using the Scenario Evaluation and Regionalization Analysis (SERA) model, we integrate detailed geographic data with supply chain costs to optimize infrastructure rollout and identify the most viable domestic resource locations.
• Pipeline & Blending Expertise: Our recent work on BlendPATH and the HyBlend initiative allows us to analyze the economic feasibility of transporting recovered hydrogen through existing or new pipeline networks, a critical factor for "Category B" subsurface resources.
• Market & Risk Assessment: We perform resource assessments and market-potential projections to evaluate the R&D goals of transformative subsurface technologies, ensuring they align with broader energy infrastructure resilience.
Support for Both Categories A and B: NLR can serve as a strategic partner for project teams in either Category A or B. We provide the "one-of-a-kind" enabling capabilities requested by ARPA-E—specifically Technoeconomic Analysis (TEA) and Data Science—to validate the path from laboratory proof-of-concept to field deployment. Our analysis can quantify the economic impact of novel stimulation strategies (e.g., chemical, thermal, or hybrid) to ensure that step-change improvements in recovery factor result in commercially viable energy solutions.
Partnering Status: NLR is seeking to join diverse project teams led by industry or startups to provide focused technical contributions that maximize the odds of program success. |
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| | Tertiary Oil Recovery Program at University of Kansas | Reza Barati | Professor, Director |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Tertiary Oil Recovery Program (TORP) at the University of Kansas is a nationally recognized research and technology development program with over four decades of impact in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), reservoir engineering, and field-scale implementation. TORP has a strong track record of bridging fundamental research with industry deployment, particularly in mature and unconventional reservoirs. The program has led numerous DOE- and industry-funded projects focused on improving recovery efficiency through advanced fluid systems, reservoir characterization, and process optimization.
Dr. Reza Barati, Director of TORP and Don W. Green Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, brings extensive expertise in unconventional reservoir stimulation and EOR, CO₂-EOR, CCUS, and nanotechnology-enabled recovery systems. His work integrates laboratory experimentation, pore-to-field scale modeling, and techno-economic analysis to develop scalable solutions for low-carbon energy production. Dr. Barati has led multiple multidisciplinary research initiatives, authored 57 peer-reviewed publications, and holds patented technologies related to advanced recovery processes.
TORP’s facilities include state-of-the-art laboratories for high-pressure/high-temperature (HPHT) experimentation, core flooding, wettability and interfacial characterization, geomechanics, and advanced imaging. The program has extensive experience in designing and testing novel stimulation and EOR fluids, including nanoparticle-enhanced systems, surfactant/polymer formulations, and gas-based processes. TORP has lead multiple projects in gas huff-n-puff and chemical injection in shale oil reservoirs.
Our interest in RFI-0000095 aligns with advancing next-generation stimulation and enhanced recovery technologies that improve resource efficiency while reducing environmental impact. TORP is particularly interested in developing integrated solutions that combine advanced stimulation (e.g., tailored fracturing fluids, micro/nano-particles, and wettability alteration) with EOR processes such as gas injection, foam-assisted recovery, and chemical methods. The goal is to enhance recovery from complex reservoirs, including unconventional plays and mature fields, while supporting decarbonization.
Through strong academic-industry partnerships and a history of field validation, TORP offers a unique combination of scientific depth, experimental capability, and practical implementation experience |
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| | Colorado School of Mines | Luis Zerpa | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| I am Associate Professor and hold the Harry D. Campbell Endowed Chair at the Colorado School of Mines. I have over 20 years of expertise in reservoir engineering related projects. As co-Director of the Center for Rock and Fluid Multiphysics, I specialize in experimental and numerical evaluation of subsurface formations, with applications spanning petroleum, geothermal, and carbon sequestration. My research focuses on the complex interactions between rocks and fluids to optimize recovery in low-permeability environments, directly aligning with ARPA-E’s objectives for both Category A (Shale and Tight Oil & Gas) and Category B (Other Low-Permeability Resources).
My team has been doing preliminary evaluation of enhanced oil recovery processes for unconventional low permeability reservoirs supporting field trials by operators. We have developed experimental and computational modeling techniques to support future projects. Our capabilities include advanced triaxial core testing under in-situ conditions, 3D geomechanical modeling, and field-scale design for validating transformative stimulation and recovery technologies in tight formations. |
| CO |
| | Sandia National Laboratories | Chester J Weiss | Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Other Energy Technologies
| Sandia Geosciences has deep historical connections to the domestic oil & gas community and has demonstrated leadership in geophysical modeling (EM and seismic), sensing (DAS and traditional geophone), and interpretation (FWI). Together with Sandia's AI/ML, geomechanics and geochemistry teams, the Laboratories bring an unparalleled concentration of human and technical capital in support of this NOFO. We welcome partnerships where integrated teams are assembled and deployed in high-consequence, fast turn-around systems. |
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| | University of Oklahoma | Prue Smith Viscomi | Associate Professor |
State and/or Local Government
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Other Energy Technologies
| I am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, with over 13 years of prior industry experience at BP America (2012–2025). My background is grounded in applied engineering, with extensive expertise in hydraulic fracturing, fracture modeling, geomechanics, and well completions across both offshore and unconventional assets.
At BP, I served most recently as a Senior Fracture and Stimulation Specialist, where I led the design and execution of frac-pack completions in the Gulf of Mexico. This work required integrating reservoir characterization, geomechanical modeling, and real-time operational decision-making to deliver reliable and cost-effective completions in complex offshore environments.
In earlier roles, including Completions Engineer for the Atlantis development and Technical Specialist on BP’s Central Team, I developed and implemented advanced engineering workflows to optimize stimulation performance. My contributions included leading diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis programs, building geomechanical models for treatment design, and authoring internal best practices adopted across global assets.
I have also contributed to emerging energy initiatives, including potential Class VI frac design for carbon capture and storage (CCUS) projects, with a focus on subsurface integrity, injection performance, and long-term containment. My work has supported projects across North America, the North Sea, the Middle East, and Asia, consistently delivering improvements in efficiency, risk reduction, and resource recovery.
My combined industry and academic experience positions me to bridge fundamental research with field-scale implementation, particularly in areas aligned with DOE priorities such as subsurface and advanced well design. |
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| | Energy Research Company | Robert De Saro | President |
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Other Energy Technologies
| We specialize in measuring feedstocks for combustion processes (biofuels, coal, MSW); feedstocks for industrial process control (scrap aluminum for making ingots, sheet, die cast products), mineral extraction (critical minerals such as REE etc.). Our instruments are in-situ and in near real-time. |
Website: www.er-co.com
Email: rdesaro@er-co.com
Phone: (908) 561-8110 x121
Address: 400 Leland Ave., 400 Leland Ave., Plainefield, NJ, 07062, United States
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| | Start-Nova LLC | Ajit Pradhan | Founder |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Start-Nova LLC is a California-based small business specializing in direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology commercialization and critical minerals supply chain development. The founding team combines experience in oil and gas exploration and production support with direct hands-on experience from the only US demonstration of commercial-grade lithium recovery from geothermal brine — a background uniquely suited to Advanced Stimulation and Enhanced Recovery initiatives spanning both produced water and geothermal brine systems.
We are seeking to partner on initiatives targeting geothermal brine and produced water resources, with particular interest in integrated DLE technologies applicable to low-permeability formations and multi-mineral co-extraction. Our team is experienced in coordinating multi-institution efforts including National Laboratory partnerships, and in aligning technical execution with ARPA-E commercialization objectives. |
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| | KMR Collaborative, LLC | Thomas Adams, P.E. | President/Principal Engineer |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| KMR Collaborative, LLC (KMR) is a Nevada-based small business specializing in geological engineering, advanced construction materials, and applied mineral resource development, with a focus on unconventional and underutilized feedstocks. KMR has successfully executed multiple ARPA-E–funded efforts and brings a demonstrated understanding of ARPA-E program structure, including milestone-driven project management, go/no-go decision gates, rigorous quarterly reporting, and integration of techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life-cycle assessment (LCA) into technology development. We are seeking to partner on CRITICAL MINERALS initiatives requiring integrated capabilities in exploration, characterization, and pilot-scale validation, including emerging in-situ recovery and resource harvesting technologies. Our team supports the full project lifecycle—from exploration program design, drilling oversight, and representative sampling to geophysical assessment, GIS-based resource modeling, and permitting/closure—while also providing advanced laboratory characterization and performance testing to evaluate downstream processing and end-use applications. KMR is experienced in coordinating with multi-institution teams, including national laboratories, universities, and private industry partners, and aligning technical execution with ARPA-E performance metrics and commercialization objectives. Our strength lies in bridging field-scale resource identification with materials performance and techno-economic relevance, enabling rapid screening, de-risking, and scale-up of novel mineral resources. We are particularly interested in collaborative efforts advancing domestic supply chains through innovative extraction, beneficiation, and utilization strategies consistent with ARPA-E’s high-impact, translational mission. |
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