✨ Research Funding Notices
6 DECEMBER 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 163 4503
Investment priority: Energy Resources
Improved knowledge of our oil and gas resources
| Research question | Indicative funding |
|---|---|
| Using play fairway analysis, where do the mapped petroleum system elements from each basin intersect and how do they predict or define theoretical or proven play concepts in each basin in New Zealand, and what are the risk profiles for each working or theoretical petroleum play? | $0.50 million per annum for up to four years. |
Investment priority: Energy Resources
Leveraging bioenergy resources and research
| Research question | Indicative funding |
|---|---|
| How can we best exploit New Zealand’s natural resources through energy-related research that will support industrial symbiosis projects centred around wood waste usage? | $1.0 million per annum for up to four years. |
2.1 Joint research question with the High-Value Manufacturing and Services Research Fund
Investment priority: Minerals
Greater benefit from mineral resources
| Research question | Other requirements | Indicative funding |
|---|---|---|
| To leverage more from our minerals base: |
(a) what domestic mineral resources have potential for niche mineral processing that will leverage commercial value; and
(b) what manufacturing processes need to be developed to support economical and environmentally friendly post-extraction processing of the mineral resources? | Proposals must address both parts (a) and (b).
Research addressing part (a) must align with the objectives and areas of research of the Energy and Minerals Research Fund as described in the notice “Description of Funds within Vote RS&T”, published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200.
Research addressing part (b) must align with the objectives and areas of research of the High-Value Manufacturing and Services Research Fund as described in the notice “Description of Funds within Vote RS&T”, published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200. | Total funding for part (a) and part (b) is $0.5 million per annum for up to four years, of which:
– $0.25 million per annum will be allocated from the Energy and Minerals Research Fund for part (a)
and
– $0.25 million per annum will be allocated from the High-Value Manufacturing and Services Research Fund for part (b).
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