Grant Round 5

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Grant Round 5

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Clean H2 and N-fertilizer Production Facility
C-5-A Application
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Spiritwood Fertilizer Project
C-5-B Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Green Pig Iron Production Facility
C-5-C Application
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Unlocking the Full Potential of Produced Water as a Key Component of Clean Sustainable Energy
C-5-D Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Blue Ammonia Facility
C-5-E Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Marathon Petroleum Dickinson Renewable Fuel Facility Expansion
C-5-G Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Demonstration and Scale-Up of a Low-Cost Long-Duration Energy Storage Technology for Lithium-Ion Batteries
C-5-H Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Grand Power-ND Battery Manufacturing Plant
C-5-I Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Cerilon GTL
C-5-K Application
Technical Review Summary
 
NDeV Flare Gas Mitigation Demonstration Project
C-5-L Application
Technical Review Summary

C-5-12: Green pig iron production facility

  • Sponsor: Scranton Holding Company/North American Iron, Inc.
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $7 million (grant) 
  • Total Project Cost: $2 billion
    • Final Report 

C-5-13: Marathon Petroleum Dickinson Renewable Fuel Facility Expansion

  • Sponsor: Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $3,300,000 (grant)  
  • Total Project Cost: $21,761,930 
    • Final Report 

C-5-14: Demonstration and Scale-Up of a Low-Cost Long-Duration Energy Storage Technology for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Sponsor: Dakota Lithium Materials
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $2 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $10,250,000
    • Final Report 

C-5-15: Cerilon GTL

  • Sponsor: Cerilon
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $9.5 million (grant) & $8.5 million (loan) 
  • Total Project Cost: $3.6 billion
    • Final Report

Grant Round 4

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Grant Round 4

Summary of Applications

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Bushel Farm Traceability Dashboard
C-4-A Application
Technical Review Summary
 
SAFuels X
C-4-B Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Smart Well Hub
C-4-C Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Project Tundra
C-4-D Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Project Phoenix-Manufacturing bio-degradable polymers using methane as feedstock
C-4-E Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Lignite Combustion Product Enhancements
C-4-F Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Unlocking the Full Potential of Produced Water as a Key Component of Clean Sustainable Energy
C-4-G Application
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Enhancement of Energy Infrastructure to Enable Sustainable Resource Management, Stimulate Innovation, and Secure Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals
C-4-H Application
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C-4-10: Bushel Farm Traceability Dashboard

  • Sponsor: Bushel, Inc.
  • Objective: 
  • Funded Amount: $3.5 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $12,265,250 
    • Final Report 

C-4-11: Unlocking the Full Potential of Produced Water as a Key Component of Clean Sustainable Energy

  • Sponsor: WellSpring Hydro
  • Objective:  
  • Funded Amount: $5 million (grant) 
  • Total Project Cost: $250,886,700 
    • Final Report 

Grant Round 3

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Grant Round 3

Liberty H2 Hub Front-End Engineering & Design
C-3-A Application
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Project Phoenix-Manufacturing bio-degradable polymers using methane as feedstock
C-3-B Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Geothermal Power Generation for Oil & Gas Production
C-3-C Application
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C-3-7: Liberty H2 Hub Front-End Engineering & Design

  • Sponsor: Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) 
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $10 million (grant) 
  • Total Project Cost: $24,290,528
    • Final Report 

C-3-8: Project Phoenix Manufacturing bio-degradable polymers using methane as feedstock

  • Sponsor: Newlight Technologies 
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $4,185,625 (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $8,271,250
    • Final Report 

C-3-9: Geothermal Power Generation for Oil & Gas Production

  • Sponsor: Enerplus (USA) Corporation
  • Objective:
  • Funded Amount: $1,098,500 (grant) 
  • Total Project Cost: $2,197,000
    • Final Report 

Grant Round 2

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Grant Round 2

Flare Mitigation-Elimination through Wellsite Energy Recovery and Advanced Computing
C-2-A Application
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Hydroil McKenzie 1 Slurry Fracture Injection TENORM Disposal Facility
C-2-B Application
Technical Review Summary
 
SAFuels X
C-2-C Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Commercial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture & Geological Sequestration in McLean County
C-2-D Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Internal Combustion Engine Carbon Capture and Sequestration
C-2-E Application
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Accelerating the Waste-to-Energy Commercialization Pathway for the Sandwich Gasifier
C-2-F Application
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Green Hydrogen Generation and Storage System
C-2-G Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Project Tundra
C-2-I Application
Technical Review Summary

C-2-6: Internal Combustion Engine Carbon Capture and Sequestration

  • Sponsor: Enerplus Resources (USA) Corporation
  • Objective: This funding is for the implementation of a fieldwide carbon capture and sequestration project to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions on a field wide basis.  This project, that will use proprietary technology to collect exhaust gas emitted from stationary internal combustion engines, was partially funded by the Industrial Commission.   
  • Funded Amount: $1 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $18,110,000
    • Final Report 

Grant Round 1

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Grant Round 1

Dakota H2 Hub
C-1-A Application
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Cerilon GTL
C-1-C Application
Technical Review Summary 
 
Vapor Recovery Units to Capture Fugitive Gas Emissions from Oil & Gas Locations
C-1-E Application
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Unlocking the Full Potential of Produced Water as a Key Component of Clean Sustainable Energy
C-1-G Application 
Technical Review Summary
 
Commercial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture & Geological Sequestration in McLean County
C-1-H Application 
Technical Review Summary
 
Front-End Engineering and Design for CO2 Capture at Coal Creek Station
C-1-I Application
Technical Review Summary
 
Solving North Dakota Flaring Mobile Flare Gas Capture & Fueling Platform Expansion
C-1-J Application
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C-1-1: Dakota H2 Hub

  • Sponsor: Bakken Energy LLC
  • Objective: Develop a regional clean hydrogen hub.
  • Funded Amount: $10 million (grant) & $80 million (loan)
  • Total Project Cost: $1.75 billion
    • Final Report 

C-1-2: Cerilon GTL

  • Sponsor: Cerilon GTL ND Inc. GTL Project
  • Objective: To take clean natural gas, converting it through an ESG compliant Gas to Liquids (GTL) process into clean, environmentally friendly, and value adding products. The GTL facility will do Carbon Capture and Underground Sequestration (CCUS) to capture up to ~2 million tons per annum of CO2 and sequester underground.
  • Funded Amount: $7 million (grant) & $40 million (loan)
  • Total Project Cost: $2.8 billion
    • Final Report 

C-1-3: Unlocking the Full Potential of Produced Water as a key Component of Clean Sustainable Energy

  • Sponsor: Wellspring Hydro
  • Objective: Execute the final phase of front-end engineering (FEL-3) and design to recover resources with commercial value from a waste stream from the Bakken oil fields; Confirm produced water feedstock process through pilot testing; complete validation of lithium extraction process.
  • Funded Amount: $1 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $2.2 million
    • Final Report 

C-1-4: Commercial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture & Geological Sequestration in McLean County

  • Sponsor: Midwest AgEnergy Group
  • Objective: Bring CO2 sequestration into commercial application.
  • Funded Amount: $3 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $58,800,000 
    • Final Report 

C-1-5: Front-End Engineering and Design for CO2 Capture at Coal Creek Station

  • Sponsor: Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
  • Objective: Complete a FEED (front-end engineering and design) study on the addition of a full-scale post combustion CO2 capture system (CCS) that will capture 95% of CO2 emissions at the 1100-MWe Coal Creek Station.
  • Funded Amount: $7 million (grant)
  • Total Project Cost: $15,065,200
    • Final Report