Pioneer Energy Awarded Three Grants from U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

December 20, 2024. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced Pioneer Energy has been selected for award of three grants totaling $17 million under a program intended to help small oil and gas operators, Tribes, and other entities across the country to reduce, monitor, measure, and quantify methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. An aggregate $850 million was awarded by DOE and EPA.

The projects include:

• Zero-Emission Sweetening and Stabilization Production Facilities for Sour Sites. To address elimination of flaring and related emissions from oil and gas production through deployment of equipment that achieves better separation between gas and oil while eliminating nearly all emission sources. READ MORE: Crude Oil Desulfurization: Innovative Technology for Sweetening Extremely Sour Oil

• Methane Emission Mitigation through Onsite Methanol Synthesis. To eliminate flaring and related emissions from oil and gas production with a technology designed to use mass produced internal combustion engines as compressors and chemical reactors. 

• Zero-Emission Drop-In Replacement Production Facilities for Marginal Conventional Wells. To advance a new well pad processing technology to achieve better separation between gas and oil, replacing existing equipment while eliminating nearly all emissions sources. READ MORE: Emissions Control Treater (ECT) for Marginal Wells

DOE/EPA ANNOUNCEMENT: Project Selections for FOA 3256: Methane Emissions Reduction Program Oil and Gas Methane Monitoring and Mitigation