The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has re-launched its oil and gas exploration and production newsletter, E&P Focus. The electronic newsletter is a quarterly publication highlighting the latest developments in R&D being carried out by NETL. E&P Focus promotes the widespread dissemination of research results among all types of oil and gas industry stakeholders:
producers, researchers, educators, regulators, and policymakers. Each issue provides up-to-date information regarding extramural projects managed under the Strategic

Center for Natural Gas and Oil’s traditional oil and gas program, the EPAct Section 999 Program administered by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), and in-house oil and gas research carried out by NETL’s Office of Research and Development. A large number of important R&D projects are administered by NETL in areas that include deepwater and ultra-deepwater development, unconventional resources, technology for small producers, Arctic technology, and many others. Follow the progress of these projects in E&P Focus.

Subscriptions to E&P Focus are free. The next edition will be sent in July. You can sign up for a subscription, and access past issues, on the NETL website at:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/ReferenceShelf/epfocus.html.

Alternatively, you can sign up by sending an e-mail to James.Dean@eg.netl.doe.gov requesting that your name be added to the subscription list.

NETL also funds an extensive methane hydrate R&D program. To follow its progress you can subscribe to a second newsletter, similar to R&D Focus, entitled Fire in the Ice. Subscriptions may be obtained at the same addresses above.