Targeted Programs

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Native Native American American InitiativesInitiatives

within the

Department of Energy’s

National Oil Program

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MissionMission

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• Assist Native American Tribes in managing their energy resources and gaining access to energy and environmental technology

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Target Reserves

on All Native American

Reservations• 5.6 trillion cubic feet gas• 890 million barrels oil &

natural gas liquids

Targeted Programs

Native American Initiative

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•Develop Government to Government Relationships

•Fund Research Projects

•Conduct Education Outreach

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• Accomplishments:

– 13 resource development and environmental projects with Native American Tribes since 1933

– Presented results to the BIA meetings for the last 2 years

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Educational Activities

• 11 Native American summer interns

• 5 Broad Application Petroleum Workshops

• Judge AISES Science Fair• Volunteers at the Native

American Science Bowl• Request for a Workshop

by individual groups

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EDUCATION EFFORTS (during the past four years)

– 6 petroleum targeted energy production workshops

– 11 Native American student interns

– Tulsa Adopt-A-School program with 14% Native American students

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Native American Science

Bowl• Participated in 1999

Native American Science Bowl

• Organized Volunteers

• Working to Coordinate 2001 Native American Science Bowl in Oklahoma

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OIL PROGRAM PROJECT LOCATIONS

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Current

Projects•Osage Computer Automation Study

•Osage Reservation Water Quality Base Study

•Northern Cheyenne Reservervation Geochemical Survey

•Crow Reservation Geological Mapping

•Jicarilla Apache Reservation Seismic Interpretation and Mapping

•Jicarilla Apache Reservation Dakota Ss. Mapping

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“Applications of Petroleum

Technologies on Non-Allotted

Native American and Alaskan Native

Corporation Lands”

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Received 24

Proposals•3 Environmental

Proposals•8 Development

Proposals•13 Exploration

Proposals

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Proposal Locations

• Alaska• Arizona• Colorado• New Mexico• North

Dakota

• Montana• Oklahoma• South

Dakota• Utah• Wyoming

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Proposal

Participants• Assiniboine & Sioux

• Osage• Three Affiliated

Tribes • Jicarilla Apache• Standing Rock

Sioux• Navajo

• Arapaho & Shoshone Tribes

• Uintah & Ouray• Northern

Cheyenne• Ute Mountain Ute• 3 Alaskan Native

Corporations

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Recently Awarded

Projects•Advanced Resources International (Jicarilla Apache Reservation)

•Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes Mineral Resources Department

•Golder Associates (Wind River Reservation)

•Oil & Gas consultants International, Inc (Osage Reservation)

•Wind River Resources Corporation (Uintah & Ouray Reservation)

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Advanced

Resources International - Jicarilla Apache Reservation, NM

•Goal to screen the unexplored Northern part of the reservation using remote sensing technology and existing well data

•Partnered with Jicarilla Apache Tribe

•DOE will provide $195K in federal funding for the 12 month project. ARI and the Jicarilla Apache will contribute $62K in cost sharing.

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Mancos Formation

23.3 million barrels

produced from four

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Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes

Mineral/Resources Department - MT

•Goal: use soil geochemistry, aeromagnetic, Landsat lineament, and 3-D seismic anomalies to locate potential oil reserves

•relatively unexplored area adjacent to production

•Partnered with GCRL Energy Ltd and consultants

•DOE will provide $356K for the 24 month project. Fort Peck Tribes and GCRL Energy Ltd will contribute $103K in cost sharing.

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Golder Associates - Wind River Reservation,

WY•Goal to Create a fully 3-D discrete fracture network (DFN) model for targeting the greatest potential for improved recovery

•159 million barrels of remaining oil

•Partnered with Marathon Oil Company and the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes

•DOE will provide $365K in federal funding for the 24 month project. Marathon will contribute $205K in cost sharing.

3-D Reservoir and Stochastic Fracture Network Modeling for Enhanced Oil Recovery,

Circle Ridge Phosphoria/Tensleep

Reservoir

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International - Osage Reservation, OK

•Goal to develop and test a downhole vibration technology to stimulate production from a mature waterflooded field.

•Partnered with Osage Tribe, Grand Resources, Inc, and Phillips Petroleum Co.

•DOE will provide $525K in federal funding for the 16 month project. OGCI, Grand Resources and Phillips Petroleum will contribute $217K in cost sharing.

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Wind River Resources

Corporation - Uintah & Ouray Reservation,

UT•Goal to conduct a 3-D seismic survey to identify potential oil-bearing sandstone channel structures in the Hill Creek Extension Field

•Partnered with Ute Indian Tribe

•DOE will provide $500K in federal funding for the 19 month project. Wind River Resources will contribute $275K in cost sharing.

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Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Crow Tribe

Projects• Valley-Fill Sandstone

in the Kootenai Formation on the Crow Indian Reservation

• Soil Hydrocarbon Evaluation of the Crow Indian Reservation

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Northern Cheyenne Northern Cheyenne

Tribe ProjectTribe Project

• Valley-Fill Sandstone in the Kootenai Formation on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation

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Northern Cheyenne Reservations

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CROW RESERVATION

NORTH SOUTHDakota Silt

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Jicarilla Apache Tribe Projects

• Analysis of Oil-Bearing Cretaceous Sandstone Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Exclusive of the Dakota Sandstone, on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, New Mexico

• Petroleum Reservoir Geology of the Dakota formation,Jicarilla Apache Reservation, Rio Arriba and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico

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Location of the Jicarilla

Apache Reservation

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Study Area Location

MesaVerde Group - NE San Juan Basin

Jicarilla Apache Project by Colorado School of Mines

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Osage Tribe Projects

• Ground-Water Resources Reconnaissance of Osage Reservation, Oklahoma

• Computer Automation Study

Native American Native American InitiativeInitiative Location of

Osage Reservation

Water Quality of Samples from the Quaternary Aquifer

Dissolved Solids <500 mg/lDissolved Solids >500 mg/l

Osage County

Ground-Water Resources Reconnaissance of Osage Reservation, Oklahoma