Federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan launched the $750-million Emissions Reduction Fund to reduce methane and GHG emissions.
October 29, 2020, 1:31 PM MDT
The Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) is receiving a $100 million investment over four years from the federal government to help Canada’s oil and gas sector grow, create jobs, and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
October 22, 2020, 1:52 PM MDT
GHGSat Inc. has opened a new and very public window on global methane emissions with a free-to-use online resource that combines data from its own satellites with information from other sources such as the European Space Agency’s Sentinel 5P spacecraft.
October 21, 2020, 12:49 PM MDT
Bringing provincial talent to the rest of the world, and vice versa, Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) has partnered with the Accelerating CCS Technology (ACT) global initiative to invest in world-class innovation that can lead to safe and cost-effective carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, with ERA committing $5 million to ACT’s current call for proposals — called ACT 3.
October 13, 2020, 8:15 AM MDT
As Ottawa prepares to ban single use plastics, the Alberta government as part of its natural gas strategy wants to extract the full value of plastics, enabling them to be reused by the petrochemical industry in a “circular economy.”
October 7, 2020, 12 AM MDT
Kathairos Solutions Inc. and Velvet Energy Ltd. are using a liquid nitrogen-based system developed to eliminate fugitive methane emissions from routine site venting, producing zero-emission result in support of exceeding current regulatory objectives.
October 5, 2020, 12 AM MDT
Calgary-based Compass Energy Systems and Northbase Finance have partnered with Crusoe Energy Systems to build and finance approximately US$20 million of power generation systems for the expansion of Crusoe's proprietary Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) technology.
September 29, 2020, 11:27 AM MDT
After securing a $2.4 million grant from Emissions Reductions Alberta through its Natural Gas Challenge, Anax Power is finalizing a pilot site in Alberta for its turboexpander technology that can generate clean power from natural gas, without combustion.
September 28, 2020, 6 AM MDT
The Alberta government on Friday announced $52 million for methane programs that it expects will create jobs in the oil and gas sector and cut about 1.5 megatonnes of emissions right away, while also setting the stage for future job growth and reduced emissions after projects are completed.
September 28, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The federal government has promised to immediately bring forward a plan to exceed Canada’s 2030 climate goal set by the previous Conservative government and to legislate a goal of net zero emissions by 2050 as part of its effort to “build back better” with long-term competitiveness and clean growth.
September 24, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The Alberta government plans to spend up to $750 million from the industry-supported Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund on a series of programs, including carbon capture, storage and utilization.
September 23, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Exploitation of geothermal heat goes back millennia, while harnessing of geothermal power goes back over a century. Yet despite its immense geothermal resource potential, Canada has sat on the sidelines of geothermal heat and power development.
September 21, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The technology that is being taken to the commercial stage by Calgary-based Carbonova Corp. may sound almost too good to be true, but companies in the concrete-production, auto parts, sports equipment and other sectors that are working with the firm to use the carbon dioxide-sourced material it produces are believers.
September 17, 2020, 7:16 AM MDT
There was buzz in the virtual air during the recent Growing Forward Together: Energy/Ag Industry Summit, as more than 125 participants launched an important new initiative: to reimagine and reinvigorate the Alberta Advantage.
September 17, 2020, 12 AM MDT
An Acheson, Alberta-based company that was launched by a father and his two sons, none of whom have an engineering background, has grown to become one of the most technologically sophisticated oilfield service companies in the world, with the underlying aim of helping to make the oil and gas industry “safer and smarter.”
September 11, 2020, 10:59 AM MDT
GHGSat has completed its first tranche of Series-B funding, raising US$30 million and more than doubling the total amount raised to more than $55 million since the company’s founding.
September 11, 2020, 10:15 AM MDT
Western Canada requires an integrated carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) network connecting major emitters with potential markets, which starts by linking existing Saskatchewan and Alberta carbon capture hubs. At least, that is what the winning team from this year’s Avatar Program recommends.
September 9, 2020, 7:42 AM MDT
According to just about anyone who has studied it, geothermal heat and power alone could fuel our energy hungry economies for centuries — with the low- to zero-emissions output needed to meet climate targets. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, it represents a sustainable, renewable and practically inexhaustible fuel supply that could power the global electric grid many times over.
September 3, 2020, 12 AM MDT
While Alberta’s inactive oil and gas wells present a financial and environmental liability, they also offer an opportunity to be repurposed for cleantech innovation despite significant regulatory barriers and challenges, an Energy Futures Lab webinar heard Tuesday.
September 2, 2020, 12 AM MDT
Alberta’s “oil and gas centric” regulatory system can present significant barriers to technology companies looking to repurpose inactive wells for cleantech uses, webinar participants heard Tuesday.
September 2, 2020, 12 AM MDT
As the oil and gas industry struggles through another bust cycle from which it may never fully recover, there may be no better time to diversify into sectors from which it can apply its world class expertise to gain an early market advantage. To many in the industry, the most promising transition would be to pivot to geothermal.
September 1, 2020, 7:30 AM MDT
Pneumatic chemical injection pumps have been used for decades in the oil and gas industry, leaving behind a huge environmental footprint.
August 27, 2020, 7:01 AM MDT
Under Alberta’s new methane emission reduction regulations, oil and gas operators have until Jan. 1, 2023 to change out high bleed pneumatic devices at wellsites.
August 25, 2020, 8:39 AM MDT
The Daily Oil Bulletin has created a new editorial section on the website to highlight our coverage of corporate performance on environment, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.
August 25, 2020, 10:15 AM MDT
Natural Gas Innovation Fund (NGIF) portfolio start-up G4 Insights Inc. has completed a field demonstration project that took forestry industry biomass and transformed it into pipeline grade renewable natural gas (RNG).
August 25, 2020, 7:33 AM MDT
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