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Fossil Energy Historical Timeline
1970s and 1980s
Highlights include:
 DOE is established.
Great Plains Coal Gasification Plant is
completed at Beulah, N.D.
FE engineers pioneer more effective
ways to recover coal fines, clean
them, and ready them for conversion
into higher-value products.
Clean Coal Technology Demonstration
Program begins.
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Fossil Energy Historical Timeline
1990s
Highlights include:
The first Selective Catalytic
Reduction (SCR) technology,
encouraged by FE research, is
installed in the United States.
NETL is created.
NETL begins comprehensive mercury
emissions control R&D effort.
Carbon Capture and Storage research
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Fossil Energy Historical Timeline
2000s
Highlights include:
CO2 injection begins at the Weyburn
oilfield in Canada.
Clean Coal Power Initiative is
launched.
FE is credited with helping refine cost
effective horizontal drilling and
hydraulic fracturing technologies.
An FE/industry partnership conducts
landmark gas hydrate program. The
expedition discovers resource quality
gas hydrate at two of three sites
drilled. |
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Fossil Energy Historical Timeline
2010s
Highlights include:
FE announces DryFining Technology
developed through CCPI research is
ready for commercial application.
An FE/industry partnership installs
the first fully instrumented gas
hydrate test well in Alaska.
NETL begins field testing a novel
water cleaning technology that could
significantly reduce potential
environmental impacts from
producing natural gas from Marcellus
Shale and other geologic formations.
DOE signs cooperative agreement to
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