The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) doubled its membership in just two years as it combined a congressional mandate with a leveraged research, development, demonstration and commercialization process designed to bring United States consumers more domestic natural gas and oil at lower cost. Congress primed the effort when it passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), delivering legislation for the Department of Energy for a program that would speed access to the nation's ultra-deepwater, unconventional and other petroleum resources with particular attention to passing production technology to small producers.
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