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1November 2002

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

NOVEMBER 2002

INEEL completes major cleanup milestone

Departmenttakes thelead withe-Governmentaction planFuel economydata out formodel year2003 vehicles

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Spencer Abraham

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ourteen drums of transuranic waste are lowered into aTRUPACT-2 shipping cask at the Department of Energy’sIdaho National Engineering and EnvironmentalLaboratory (INEEL) in preparation for shipment to theDepartment’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) inNew Mexico. The 563rd and final shipment of the laboratory’stransuranic waste, pictured below crossing the INEEL siteborder, was accepted at WIPP on Oct. 24, 2002—10 weeksahead of the Dec. 31, 2002, deadline set in the 1995 IdahoSettlement Agreement. The total amount of transuranic wasteshipped was 3,101.1 cubic meters in 14,909 55-gallon drums.

For more on the cleanup milestone, see page 4.

Researcher Luis Nuñez of the Departmentof Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has earned the Department’s OutstandingMentor Award.Secretary of Energy Spencer Abrahamhosted Russian Minister of Energy Igor Yusufov on a tour of the Departmentof Energy’s Strategic PetroleumReserve Bryan Mound site in Freeport,Texas, Oct. 1, 2002, as part of theUnited States/Russia CommercialEnergy Summit.Department of Energy researchersand laboratories have received 23of the annual R&D 100 awardspresented by

R&D Magazine

,including Steve Hicks (left) andMitch Doktycz of Oak RidgeNational Laboratory for Any Source, Any Position (ASAP) Fluid Handler.

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U.S., Russian officials discuss energy;Secretary, Russian Minister tour SPR

Secretary Abraham and Minister Yusufov discuss Strategic Petroleum Reserve operations with Jorge Aguinaga (right), DOE Senior Site Representative for Bryan Mound.

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, Secretary of CommerceDon Evans, and the United StatesEnergy Association hosted theUnited States/Russia CommercialEnergy Summit in Houston, Texas,Oct. 1-2, 2002. The summit was anopen dialogue among U.S. energy and commerce officials, Russian offi-cials, and energy industry leadersfrom both countries regarding therole of public/private partnershipsfor international energy developmentand its economic impact.“The emphasis that our presidentsplace on the development of energy cooperation between our two coun-tries and our many companies offersthe promise of a bright energy futurebased on partnership for the devel-opment not just of Russia’s vast un-tapped energy resources, but on co-operation in energy projects of allkinds in both countries and aroundthe world,” Secretary Abraham saidto summit participants. “This firstcommercial energy summit is an im-portant step toward reaching our am-bitious goals.” The Secretary’s com-plete remarks are available at

http:// www.energy.gov/HQDocs/speeches/2002/octss/texas.html

. As part of thesummit, on Oct. 1,Secretary Abrahamand Russian Ministerof Energy Igor Yusufov visited theDepartment of Energy’s StrategicPetroleum Reserve(SPR) Bryan Moundsite in Freeport,Texas. Secretary Abraham hostedMinister Yusufov ona walking tour of thesite and discussionsof various SPR com-ponents. The visitallowed Minister Yusufov to observeSPR operations firsthand and to un-derstand better the role of SPR in al-leviating oil disruptions. Minister Yusufov is the first person from theformer Soviet Union to visit one of the SPR sites.“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which could be used to minimize theeconomic damage resulting from anoil disruption, is a vital element of our National Energy Policy,” Secre-tary Abraham said. “A very shorttime from now, the SPR will holdmore oil than ever before in its his-tory; and, as President Bush directedlast November, the goal is to con-tinue filling the SPR to its maximumcapacity of 700 million barrels.”President Ford authorized creationof the SPR when he signed the En-ergy Policy and Conservation Act onDec. 22, 1975. Construction of thefirst surface facilities began in June1977, and the first oil was deliveredto SPR the following month. Today,the SPR is the largest emergency oilstockpile in the world.

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A new system, aptly namedIntelliPipe™, developed under aDepartment of Energy (DOE)-fundedproject by the engineering team of Grant Prideco, Houston, Texas, andNovatek Engineering, Provo, Utah,could revolutionize the way compa-nies probe for oil and gas. The in-novation turns an oil and gas drillpipe into a high-speed data transmis-sion tool capable of sending datafrom the bottom of a well 100,000times faster than technology in com-mon use today.IntelliPipe is a drill pipe withbuilt-in telemetry that can transmitlarge amounts of data to the surfaceas fast as one million bits per second.

‘Smart pipe’ a new advance in oil, gas drilling

It also will allow data to be sent theother direction just as fast, giving drill-ers the first-ever capability to almostinstantaneously direct and control themovement of a drilling tool thousandsof feet below the surface.“The IntelliPipe is one of the mostremarkable advances in drilling tech-nology in the last 25 years,” Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said.“I think the IntelliPipe is exactly thetype of technology we need to moveour domestic production capabilitiesinto the next century.”The key to the new system is aunique non-contacting coupler em-bedded in connections between 30-foot-long sections of drill pipe. Thecoupler permits data to be sentacross the connection and onthrough a high-speed cable attachedto the inner pipe wall.The IntelliPipe system representsone of the Department’s most impor-tant government-industry successstories. DOE’s Office of FossilEnergy helped generate thetechnology’s development when itawarded a small business contractto Novatek in 1997.The “smart pipe” has undergoneseveral field tests and is expected tobe introduced commercially next year. Grant Prideco and Novatekhave formed a joint venture to mar-ket the technology.

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