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Improved Oil and Gas Recovery and Produced Water Management Technologies

Award ceiling
up to $150,000,000
Closes
Sep 8, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-08

Awards up to $150,000,000 per recipient for unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Sep 8, 2026.

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Improved Oil and Gas Recovery and Produced Water Management Technologies awards up to $150,000,000 per recipient, open to unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Sep 8, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$150,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$150,000,000
Award floor
$1
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 8, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jul 6, 2026
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and natural gas reservoirs · Technologies for treatment of flowback and produced water from oil and natural gas production operations · Primary and enhanced recovery · Field testing and validation of water treatment technologies
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$150,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$150,000,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity types
industry
Energy, Environment & Water
Source field: industries
demographic
For-profit organizations, Indian Tribes, Institutions of higher education, Nonprofit organizations, State and local government entities
Source field: demographics
use
Field testing and validation of water treatment technologies, Primary and enhanced recovery, Recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and natural gas reservoirs, Technologies for treatment of flowback and produced water from oil and natural gas production operations
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

The following types of domestic entities are eligible to participate as a recipient or subrecipient of this NOFO: • Institutions of higher education (as defined in Title 20 U.S.C. § 1001) • For-profit organizations • Nonprofit organizations • State and local government entities • Indian Tribes (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 25 U.S.C. § 5304)

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When does it close?

Sep 8, 2026TodayDeadline type Fixed date
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What can the money be used for?

4 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and natural gas reservoirsTechnologies for treatment of flowback and produced water from oil and natural gas production operationsPrimary and enhanced recoveryField testing and validation of water treatment technologies

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

What comparable notices state

23 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Energy, 23 of 34 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$400,000
  • Median$3,000,000
  • 75th percentile$15,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

972 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

972 federal awards on file under assistance listing 81.089, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

6 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $150,000,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$150,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 8, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
What can the funding be used for?
Recovery efficiency from unconventional oil and natural gas reservoirs, Technologies for treatment of flowback and produced water from oil and natural gas production operations, Primary and enhanced recovery, Field testing and validation of water treatment technologies, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.

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What else is open

Also open from National Energy Technology Laboratory
Also open under assistance listing 81.089

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-08
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-04
Assistance listing81.089

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