2008 EPA Methane to Markets Cooperative Agreement Awards

These awards were made in response to a USEPA Request for Proposals issued in December 2007. These selected proposals support the core activities of the Methane to Markets Partnership and support the sector-specific action plans developed by the Partnership. More information will be available soon after these are input into the Methane to Markets project tracking system. The sites linked from this page are not on the EPA Web site.

Applicant	Title	Sector	Country	EPA Total Project Cost* (Negotiated Total)
Ministry of Agriculture Dept. of Livestock & Cooperation	Development Assistance to Reduce Methane from Swine Farms in Thailand	Agriculture	Thailand	$700,000
National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Rural Dev. Admin. (RDA)	Methane Capture from Agricultural Wastes in Korea	Agriculture	Korea	$98,500
Guanajuato Produce Foundation	Development of technical standards for the design, construction & installation of anaerobic digesters in Mexico	Agriculture	Mexico	$149,550
International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC)	Assessment of the Potential to Capture Methane from Distillery and Winery Waste in India	Agriculture	India	$100,062
Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU)	Abandoned mine feasibility study and coal mine methane to liquefied natural gas assessment ("Zory" Coal Mine)	Coal	Poland	$399,913
Central Inst. of Mining and Fuel Research	Feasibility Study for Recovery and Utilization of Coal Mine Methane in Jharia, Bokaro & Raniganj Coalfields in India	Coal	India	$311,675
Mongolian Nature & Environmental Consortium	Pre-feasibility Study on Methane Recovery & Utilization in Nalaikh Coal Mine	Coal	Mongolia	$100,000
Central Mining Institute of Katowice, Poland	Detailed Characteristics of the Ventilation Air Methane Emissions from Twenty-Nine Gassy Underground Coal Mines in Poland	Coal	Poland	$250,000
Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs	The Methane Connection: Coal Mining Safety & Clean Power Production in China	Coal	China	$171,250
Virginia Tech	Development of Guidelines & Evaluation Technical for Degassing Coal Mine Methane in Advance of Mining to Reduce Methane Emissions in the Southern Shanxi Province of China	Coal	China	$300,000
Oil and Gas Institute	Study of the capabilities of landfill gas as a potential energy source	Landfill	Poland	$100,000
Env. Sanitation Engineering Tech Research Center-China	Landfill Gas Energy Recovery and Utilization Feasibility Study in China	Landfill	China	$175,000
National University of the Central Province of Buenos Aires	Using Landfill Gas As Pyrolisis Furnace Fuel	Landfill	Argentina	$150,000
Renewable Energy Agency	Landfill Gas Feasibility Study, Collection System and Flare Installation at the Rivne Landfill, Ukraine	Landfill	Ukraine	$199,950
Center for People and the Environment	Pre-feasibility Study of landfill Gas to Electricity from Nigerian Landfills	Landfill	Nigeria	$90,000
Institute for Environmental Management, Inc.	Improving Landill Methane Energy Recovery from Developing Countries Landfills	Landfill	India	$150,000
Promar Foundation	Master Plan for Landfill Management in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil	Landfill	Brazil	$250,012
Municipality of Guayaquil	Activities that Advance Methane Recovery and Use as a Clean Energy Sources in "Las Iguanas" Landfill in Guayaquil, Ecuador	Landfill	Ecuador	$192,600
Research Triangle Institute International (RTI)	Methane Emissions and Leak Detection in the Chinese Oil and Natural Gas System	Oil and Gas	China	$499,251
Coastal Institute of Technology, Coastal Polytechnic University	Activities that Advance Methane Recovery and Use as a Clean Energy Source in the Oil and Gas Industry in Ecuador	Oil and Gas	Ecuador	$299,468

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