While it was not specifically created to deal with oil and gas industry challenges, a new facility in Richmond, B.C., to test carbon capture and conversion technologies will focus much of its efforts on problems specific to the high emitting oilsands—specifically making production less carbon intensive.
September 21, 2017, 6 AM MDT
The proponent of Canada’s first offshore wind farm off the B.C. coast has attracted the interest of the world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer, advancing a proposed 400 megawatt project that could feed green power to nearby liquefied natural gas project.
September 13, 2017, 11:31 AM MDT
Rapid technological change and a low price environment has promoted the creation of a new Clean Resources Innovation Network (CRIN) that seeks to bring the oil and gas industry more in line with the needs of its end users and accelerate technology uptake, leading to potentially transformative innovation.
July 10, 2017, 6 AM MDT
Technological change is coming rapidly, and combined with an increased focus on carbon intensity, it will challenge the Canadian oil and gas industry in the coming years, according to Mike Crabtree, vice-president, energy with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC).
June 20, 2017, 10:30 AM MDT
Oilsands producers could learn much from revolutionary innovators like Tesla’s Elon Musk as well as from challenges overcome in other oil and gas basins to bring about substantial cost reductions and win over customers, according to industry observers.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
An organization created to get past the polarization of the energy debate and find creative solutions is advancing a number of concepts built upon Alberta’s strength—and the main source of the debate—the oil and gas sector.
April 24, 2017, 8:49 AM MDT
New technology being developed by SAGD operators could effectively eliminate CO2 emissions from the steam generation process, the largest source of greenhouse gas releases from in situ bitumen production.
March 24, 2017, 6:58 AM MDT
It’s official. Cautious optimism has crept into the oil and gas industry entering 2017 as the price of oil hovers around $50 per bbl and companies are looking to modestly grow spending and increase drilling activity as they align to the new normal of improving, if not exceptional, commodity prices going forward.
March 20, 2017, 6 AM MDT
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) means different things to different industries, but it will have far reaching implications for consumers and industry alike in future years, participants in a University of Calgary sponsored Distinguished Speaker Panel said this week.
March 17, 2017, 11:27 AM MDT
An advanced shutdown of Alberta’s coal power plants and build-up of cogeneration in the oilsands to provide new power to the grid could lead to earlier reduction in the province’s greenhouse gas emissions.
March 9, 2017, 3:28 AM MST
Alberta could become an international hub for development of new technology designed to produce profitable uses for carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas blamed for creating climate change, say industry and government officials who announced financing for a new CO2 test facility in southeast Calgary.
March 6, 2017, 9:50 AM MST
Fear of failure, lack of sharing of ideas and an inability to tap into the tech start-up community and transform R&D into commercial products are hampering innovation and productivity improvement in the oil and gas sector, say industry insiders.
January 25, 2017, 6 AM MST
As straightforward as SAGD bitumen production may sound—pumping steam through one horizontal wellbore to heat bitumen and pumping it up a second horizontal wellbore to produce it—the relatively new production method is a highly complex affair, with a wide assortment of variables to consider that are unique to the oil and gas industry.
November 22, 2016, 10:20 AM MST
Oil and gas pipeline ruptures are not only potentially costly events, but also occurrences that erode public confidence in pipeline safety, and therefore social licence to build and operate them. The breakdown of multimillion-dollar pieces of equipment used in the oil and gas industry can be similarly dangerous, and costly.
November 15, 2016, 10:08 AM MST
As oil and gas companies consider adoption of potentially cost-cutting new digital oilfield technologies to weather the prolonged low oil price environment, predictive maintenance and production asset optimization technologies ought to be at the top of their list, according to a new report.
November 8, 2016, 7:24 AM MST
The ultimate success of a pilot project can depend as much on establishing common interests between the technology provider and producer as it does on the technology tested, say those familiar with operating them in the capital intensive oilsands sector, where pilots can add up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
October 13, 2016, 6 AM MDT
In order to carry out exploration, drilling and fracturing, ongoing production and transportation of oil and gas over widespread geographic areas, oil and gas companies and their suppliers manage huge fleets of vehicles on a day-to-day basis. It is a costly and oftentimes inefficient process, one in which substantial cost savings can be extracted with the right technology.
October 6, 2016, 10:44 AM MDT
When GE launched an open innovation challenge to create a new mounting bracket for aircraft engines using additive manufacturing (3D printing) with a goal of a 30 per cent weight reduction, it could hardly have guessed where the winning solution would come from.
September 13, 2016, 6 AM MDT
The establishment of a climate change policy by Alberta’s NDP government in its first year in office serves as a case study in avoiding conflict and successful implementation, and could help position the province to open up new markets for its oil in Asia, according to Harold “Skip” York, vice-president of integrated energy for consultancy Wood Mackenzie’s Americas research team.
May 11, 2016, 10:59 AM MDT
Despite a challenging economic climate for the Canadian oil and gas industry, PTAC set a new record for the number of projects launched in 2015 aiming to reduce both costs and the environmental footprint of the industry.
May 6, 2016, 11:14 AM MDT
Alison Thompson didn’t take to geothermal resources promotion from an environmentalist perspective.
April 13, 2016, 9:44 AM MDT
Oil and gas industry methane emissions from sources such as associated gas and gas wells, pneumatic devices and leaks, which together add up to a potent contributor to climate change, have come under the spotlight as nations ramp up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
April 11, 2016, 7:33 AM MDT
In good times and bad, bringing innovation to the oilpatch can be a challenge.
March 31, 2016, 11:07 AM MDT
As SAGD bitumen producing projects start reaching what was expected to be the end of their productive life, they have taken an unexpected turn — as one industry expert put it, they are refusing to die.
March 14, 2016, 6 AM MDT
With some 40 per cent of all cyber-attacks targeting energy infrastructure, there is increasing evidence oil and gas companies are taking the threat as seriously as they do health and safety.
January 19, 2016, 11:07 AM MST
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