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RMOTC: Partnering to Power the World. Field Testing, Technology Transfer, Demonstration, Neutral Environment

Welcome to RMOTC

RMOTC is an energy testing center that partners with industry to test new ideas and products that lead to increased recovery or reduced operating costs. RMOTC's test site is a 10,000-acre U.S. Department of Energy facility located within Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3 (NPR-3), also known as Teapot Dome Oil Field, about 35 miles north of Casper, Wyoming.

Who can test at RMOTC?

Independent oil producers leverage technologies tested at RMOTC by evaluating new recovery processes before application. Inventors test, evaluate, demonstrate, and transfer new technologies to the oil and gas industry. Environmental companies explore ways to prevent and manage environmental risks. National laboratories and government organizations field test theoretical laboratory assumptions in a real-world setting. Universities teaching theory in the classroom demonstrate the real-life application in the field and conduct leading-edge research.

RMOTC Offers

  • The link between development and getting your technology to the industry.
  • The opportunity to field test, document, and demonstrate benefits of your technology.
  • Acceptance of the risks of production loss in a producing well.
  • A large geologic database, facilities, and support staff.
  • Professional staff with operating expertise and equipment to tweak your ideas on site during the test, in a real-world situation, rather than a simulated laboratory test.
  • Adaptability to simulate offshore operations or renewable resources.
  • Neutrality - RMOTC has no vested interest in any specific technology, only in supporting the energy industry by increasing production, decreasing costs, and lessening the environmental footprint.

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Geothermal in the Oil Field presentations posted
Available presentations from the August 18-19 symposium are now available

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Using geothermal energy in oil field picking up steam
Wyoming Business Report
August 20, 2010

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New RMOTC white paper
Oil & gas reservoirs
in U.S. like the producing formations at NPR-3
Published July 2010

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Field test a success for methane separation from water well
Wyoming Energy News,
July 12, 2010

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Last Update: August 2010