U.S. DOE, Federal Energy Technology Center-Morgantown, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26507-0880

A -- NEXT GENERATION DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES SOL DE-RA26-99FT40160 POC Point of Contact: Crystal A. Sharp, Contract Specialist, 304-285-4442, E-mail csharp@fetc.doe.gov or Gary Sames, Contracting Officer's Technical Representative, 412-892-4347, E-mail sames@fetc.doe.gov WEB: click here to go to the Federal Energy Technology Center's, http://www.fetc.doe.gov. E-MAIL: click here to send messages to the Contracting Officer's, click here to send messages to the Contract Specialist csharp@fetc.doe.gov. The U.S. DOE FETC announces the planned availability of a Program Research and Development Announcement (PRDA). DE-RA26-99FT40160, entitled "Next Generation Fracture Detection Technologies." The objective of this effort is to advance the current state-of-art and state-of-the-practice exploration technology in natural fracture detection to produce improved characterization and prediction of natural gas reservoir flow properties through higher resolution remote description of fracture geometry and properties, including azimuth, density, spacing, length, flow aperture, saturation, and connectivity. Multiple cost-reimbursement/cost sharing contracts awards are anticipated and phased go/no-go decisions will be made to continue funding of individual awards. The awarded contracts will be divided into 3 phases, each requiring different levels of industry cost share: Phase 1 -- Theoretical Development/Basic Research (0% industry cost share requirement and 100% government cost share requirement, Phase 2 -- Validation and/or Prototype Development (20% industry cost share requirement and 80% government cost share requirement), and Phase 3 -- Demonstration (50% industry cost share requirement and 50% government share requirement). An Information Package detailing the draft requirements is being released concurrently with this announcement and can be viewed and downloaded from the Federal Energy Technology Center's Internet site http://www.fetc.doe.gov/business/index.html. Interested parties are encouraged to review the package and provide comments and/or questions to csharp@fetc.doe.gov by the close of business on April 9, 1999. On or about April 14, 1999 FETC plans to post the final solicitation on FETC's internet site noted above. See Note 2. Posted 03/24/99 (W-SN311942). (0083)

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