Becoming a world leading investment site for carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) and potentially hydrogen is the simplest pathway for Alberta to have an energy future despite declining global oil demand, an energy consultant said Wednesday.
February 25, 2021, 8:09 AM MST
Royal Dutch Shell released its latest round of long-term global energy scenarios earlier this month, conveniently pushing the outlook period from 2070 to 2100, with the potential of cataclysmic climate change looming large over the remainder of this century.
February 24, 2021, 6 AM MST
Imperial Oil Limited will be engaging with its majority owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, to see if the Canadian producer can benefit from the U.S. oil major’s new division established to commercialize technologies that reduce carbon emissions.
February 2, 2021, 1:27 PM MST
Imperial Oil Limited’s Kearl oilsands project started off 2021 on a strong note, achieving the highest production for the month of January for the asset at more than 250,000 bbls/d.
February 2, 2021, 1:35 PM MST
The first field trial is likely two years away but researchers at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) are hopeful that plants — aided by bacteria — can help to cost-effectively dewater and speed up the reclamation of the vast tailings ponds in the Alberta oilsands.
January 25, 2021, 6:11 AM MST
Combusting bitumen products in internal combustion car and truck engines, its major use right now, may amount to sending a much more valuable commodity up in smoke.
January 13, 2021, 6 AM MST
Calgary-based BitCrude Energy has successfully completed its commercial production demonstration that delivers a cost-effective, ecologically enhanced, and safe bitumen transportation process.
January 11, 2021, 9:58 AM MST
Start-up Meteor Biotech is developing new technology to uncover additional production while reducing emissions per bbl of oil at the same time in oilsands operations.
December 23, 2020, 12 AM MST
Acceleware Ltd. says that a second major oilsands producer has agreed to provide financial and technical support for the commercial-scale pilot test of its RF XL radio frequency heating system at Marwayne.
December 22, 2020, 6:23 AM MST
A second life cycle assessment (LCA) study of oilsands greenhouse gas emissions intensity involving essentially all major oilsands producers will soon be underway, an Alberta Innovates executive said Thursday.
December 18, 2020, 7:26 AM MST
When Alberta-specific data is used, upstream greenhouse gas intensity numbers for oilsands production pathways are 14 per cent to 35 per cent lower than previously published, according to a new study funded by Alberta Innovates and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA).
December 17, 2020, 11 AM MST
Canada is at an economic crossroads.
December 9, 2020, 12 AM MST
The COVID-19 pandemic has reluctantly forced us to cancel the 2021 Daily Oil Bulletin Energy Excellence Awards, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to learn about your successes in project execution, innovation and technology, as well as environmental excellence (click here for all of the 2020 winners).
December 9, 2020, 4:24 AM MST
Suncor Energy Inc. has confirmed its ongoing support for the commercial-scale radio frequency (RF) XL pilot project at Marwayne, first announced on May 20, said Acceleware Ltd.
December 3, 2020, 8:01 AM MST
Acceleware Ltd., a clean-tech energy developer, says it expects to start work later this year to prepare a site near Marwayne, Alberta for a commercial-scale field test of its proprietary RF XL radio frequency heating technology in the extraction of bitumen.
November 26, 2020, 10:04 AM MST
With more than 80 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions currently associated with the energy system, deep reductions in emissions likely will be needed across the system and economy to achieve a target of net-zero emissions by 2050, says a new study by the Canada Energy Regulator (CER).
November 25, 2020, 9:18 AM MST
Acceleware Ltd. has received Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) approval for its experimental scheme application under the Oil Sands Conservation Act (OSCA) for the recovery of crude bitumen using RF XL at Marwayne.
October 16, 2020, 11:03 AM MDT
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a key patent to Acceleware Ltd.
September 17, 2020, 9:50 AM MDT
Pedro Pereira-Almao is convinced the in-situ bitumen and heavy oil upgrading technology he and his team at the University of Calgary have developed can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent by eliminating the use of steam, while drastically reducing production costs and rendering SAGD technology virtually obsolete.
September 4, 2020, 8:12 AM MDT
Acceleware Ltd., a clean-tech energy technology developer, says it made significant progress in the second quarter of 2020 on the development of key radio frequency heating technology (RF) research and development patent applications.
August 27, 2020, 6 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
Solvent-enhanced bitumen and heavy oil recovery was the subject of two recent submissions to the DOB’s Energy Excellence Awards, with the associated technologies promising potential commercialization that could revolutionize the bitumen and heavy oil sector in terms of reducing emissions and costs from production.
August 12, 2020, 9:29 AM MDT
A Canadian technology that employs cosmic rays to see into SAGD reservoirs could be the next frontier when it comes to reducing monitoring costs and optimizing oilsands recovery rates.
July 27, 2020, 6:57 AM MDT
Canada’s oil and gas industry has been on a relentless pursuit of operational excellence for the last five years in response to lower oil and gas prices.
July 21, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Acceleware Ltd. has completed a 500-kilowatt field test of its radio frequency converter prototype designed in collaboration with General Electric Company research.
June 30, 2020, 8:25 AM MDT
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