Long Run Exploration Ltd. has launched its first Montney oil demonstration waterflood in the Peace River area of northern Alberta and expects approval for a second one this year, shareholders heard Wednesday.
May 23, 2013, 12 PM MDT
DeeThree Exploration Ltd. hopes to soon start re-injecting solution gas from one of its successful light oil resource plays in Alberta.
May 21, 2013, 12 PM MDT
Solvent and polymer-based floods could increase Alberta conventional oil recovery by between 100 million and 300 million cubic metres (between 629 million and 1.89 billion bbls), a study says.
May 15, 2013, 12 PM MDT
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January 29, 2013, 12 PM MST
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) represents a major greenhouse gas reduction option for Alberta, but enhanced oil recovery (EOR) needs to become a key driver and carbon capture costs must fall sharply, says an Alberta research official.
October 17, 2012, 12 PM MDT
(Reuters) -- Two-thirds of all the oil ever discovered would never have seen the light of day if it were not for enhanced recovery methods, which usually involve injecting steam or carbon dioxide into wells to force up the liquids.
June 25, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Zargon Oil & Gas Ltd. has closed its previously announced (DOB, June 5, 2012) $36 million sale of 275 bbls of oil a day pertaining to all of its southwest Manitoba assets and selected properties in the Elswick area of southeast Saskatchewan.
June 18, 2012, 12 PM MDT
PetroBakken Energy Ltd. is continuing to test the concept of using natural gas flooding as an agent for enhanced oil recovery in the Bakken.
May 24, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Anderson Energy Ltd. reported flat cash flow and revenue, a net loss and slightly lower production in the first quarter (see tables).
May 23, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Canadian Natural Resources Limited is continuing to work towards a carbon dioxide-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project at Steelman, a mature light oil asset in southeast Saskatchewan.
May 7, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will play an increasingly significant role over the long term for Penn West Petroleum Ltd., says the company's top official.
May 7, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Over the next 18 months, Enerplus Corporation plans to monetize up to $500 million of non-dilutive assets to help manage debt levels, company officials said Monday.
April 17, 2012, 12 PM MDT
Husky Energy Inc. continues to experiment with technologies to improve its recovery of conventional heavy oil and bitumen.
February 10, 2012, 12 PM MST
Enhance Energy Inc. confirmed it has agreed to buy Fairborne Energy Ltd.'s light oil assets at Clive.
February 3, 2012, 12 PM MST
A few years ago it seemed as if enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using carbon dioxide would be the Next Big Thing in Western Canada.
October 7, 2011, 12 PM MDT
Optimal Resources Inc. announced Monday that it had completed the initial phases of field application pilot test of its enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology on a previously "depleted" high-salinity heavy oil reservoir near Lloydminster, Alberta, with encouraging results.
September 13, 2011, 12 PM MDT
Terrex Energy Inc. announces that its Strathmore chemical EOR program is proceeding on schedule.
August 8, 2011, 12 PM MDT
An agreement could be reached by year's end for Saskatchewan's third commercial enhanced oil recovery project (EOR) using carbon dioxide, says the province's energy minister.
June 24, 2011, 12 PM MDT
While carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) hasn't taken off in a big way in Western Canada, partly because of the high cost of extraction, conventional gas may make sense for pressure maintenance in some depleting oil reservoirs now that prices for gas and oil are so far apart.
June 6, 2011, 12 PM MDT
Enhanced oil recovery-focused junior Terrex Energy Inc. is looking to add to its small stable of mature conventional oil assets that it hopes to develop with tertiary recovery methods.
May 30, 2011, 12 PM MDT
Heavy oil producer Baytex Energy Corp. plans to have the first permanent 10-well module of thermal EOR (enhanced oil recovery) development at Seal on production by year-end shareholders heard Tuesday.
May 19, 2011, 12 PM MDT
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May 19, 2011, 12 PM MDT
ARC Resources Ltd. is continuing its technical assessment of using carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at Redwater, but the company is "very discouraged" by its commercial prospects, shareholders heard on Wednesday.
May 19, 2011, 12 PM MDT
With BlackPearl Resources Inc.'s steam-assisted gravity drainage pilot project set to start up this quarter and expectations of getting polymer in the ground at its Mooney project this month, the company is entering the execution phase of its business, shareholders were told at the company's annual general meeting.
May 13, 2011, 12 PM MDT
Crescent Point Energy Corp.'s Viewfield Bakken waterflood pilot programs are showing positive initial results and could encourage other producers to attempt secondary recovery on other tight oil plays.
April 19, 2011, 12 PM MDT
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