Research and Economic Development

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL - WYOMING GAS INJECTION INITIATIVE

The Wyoming Gas Injection Initiative (WGII) has been approved to receive $22 MM of matching funds from the State of Wyoming (State) to implement, in close collaboration with Oil and Gas Operators (Operator/s), multiple Field Pilot Projects in the State of Wyoming. The initiative involves field pilot testing of advanced enhanced oil recovery technologies such as foam-assisted gas injection using recovered hydrocarbon gases, carbon dioxide, or other gases for revitalization of oil fields and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions by operations in the State. It also includes laboratory-scale de-risking of the recovery schemes (both research and technical services using site-specific rock and fluid samples at relevant field implementation conditions) at the world-leading Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous Media (COIFPM) of the University of Wyoming (University), in close collaboration with the Dow Chemical Company.

The Initiative will fund projects over a 3-to-5-year period and its goal is to support developments with significant potential to enhance well productivity and recovery from existing fields/wells in the State that are in significant decline. Both field pilot testing and laboratory-scale studies will receive funding to advance implementation. Specifically, the WGII shall distribute the State matching funds ($22 MM) through the University to (i) Operators whose field pilot projects are selected and (ii) COIFPM to perform the necessary laboratory testing in support of the selected field pilot projects.

Timelines:

· Request for Proposal opens Thursday, June 15, 2023

· RFP closes at 11:59 PM Mountain Standard Time on Friday, September 29, 2023

· The selected applicant(s) will be notified by Thursday, November 30, 2023

Request for Proposal is now open. To submit your application, please visit COIFPM's webpage.

Submit your questions through the following email address: WGII@turkmenistanlife.com
We will attempt to answer questions received before September 15, 2023

The Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development is a service organization to the faculty, staff and students of the University of Wyoming. It is our goal to provide swift, accurate and expert service to enhance the research missions of individuals and various units within the University. To that end we have labored to place the assets within the office onto the desktops of researchers through this web site.

The Office for Research & Economic Development works with faculty, staff and students in all seven colleges and UW's outreach programs to link research, technology transfer, and economic development efforts to enhance federal, state and private sector support for faculty and graduate student scholarship. In a real sense, the office coordinates the origination, organization and execution of UW's research mission with principal investigators, departments, colleges, centers and institutes. Also the Research Office through the Research Product Center, works with faculty, staff, and student inventors to identify, protect and commercialize various kinds of intellectual property. These services are provided so that scholarly activities accomplished at UW enhance the creation of the new knowledge, new applications of existing knowledge, and positively impact economic development and society in general.

Advancing Research and Scholarship at the University of Wyoming: A Focus on Society’s Grand Challenges

The Office for Research and Economic Development, together with Academic Affairs, is launching a research strategic planning activity that focuses on society’s grand, transdisciplinary research challenges. Learn more about the motivation, scope, and desired outcomes of this activity.

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Read the Wyoming Business Report special issue on research in Wyoming.

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Enabling Science through Computation

The future is now in scientific research at the University of Wyoming

Grand Challenges Week was January 31-February 4, 2022. We enjoyed presentations from each of the Planning Grant teams. Please enjoy these highlight videos. Full presentation recordings can be found here.

Grand Challenges Overview

The SHOW WYO Initiative

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IMPACT: Innovative Methods to develop Adaptive Capacity through Transdisciplinarity

MAY '22-23 Research New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation

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