Removing asphaltenes from a bitumen feedstock before it goes through a thermal cracking process actually increases total asphaltene production, while adding drill cuttings could increase liquid yields.
June 2, 2017, 9:51 AM MDT
Managing stakeholder concerns may be the main hurdle for the usage of enhanced solvent injection for in situ oilsands recovery, as something industry would consider as ‘low risk’ can be seen as ‘high risk’ for people living near operations, says an Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) representative.
June 1, 2017, 6 AM MDT
As Husky Energy Inc. has become a major thermal oil producer, the company continues to advance technologies to improve the economics and environmental performance.
May 31, 2017, 10:59 AM MDT
May 29, 2017, 11:03 AM MDT
As low oil prices constrain significant growth in Alberta’s oilsands, one SAGD producer is both growing and cutting costs.
May 26, 2017, 11:49 AM MDT
The best strategy for Canadian oil and gas producers, considering all that is out of their direct control, is to focus on controllable issues such as driving down costs to remain competitive — notably through technology and innovation, suggested speakers at the launch of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s latest energy report.
May 19, 2017, 6:52 AM MDT
Blackbird Energy Inc. says that revised internal sleeve specifications on the Stage System should help give the company a competitive advantage after problems were encountered with recent wells.
May 19, 2017, 6 AM MDT
The scaled physical model rig for SAGD is the “workhorse” in Brij Maini’s laboratory at the Schulich School of Engineering — a workhorse to test solvents and additives under various conditions and proportions with the singular aim of extracting bitumen in a more efficient, economic and environmentally-friendly manner.
May 16, 2017, 8:30 AM MDT
Alberta Transportation has confirmed that Trican Well Service Ltd.’s proprietary CleanTRACK, long-term road dust suppression technology is now approved to be applied on public roads across the province, says the company.
May 16, 2017, 9:59 AM MDT
A heavy-oil industry that can compete with conventional extraction — that’s the goal of a new industrial research chair established in partnership between industry and one of the world’s most respected heavy-oil scientists.
May 15, 2017, 8:21 AM MDT
The linear pump installed on March 24, 2017 continues to operate consistently with production rates and operating parameters having little variance from day to day, said DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp.
May 15, 2017, 10:43 AM MDT
Trinidad Drilling Ltd. is developing what it calls the ‘intelligent rig information system’ (IRIS) — a system that will connect the in-house control system to the electronic daily recorder and downhole tools.
May 11, 2017, 8:32 AM MDT
Alberta Innovates has teamed up with Natural Resources (NRCan) and industry partners to take three clean oil and gas technologies to commercial demonstration.
May 11, 2017, 10:48 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
Industry leaders were celebrated in Calgary Tuesday, as executives from the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) delivered awards to individuals and companies that stood out from their peers in Western Canada’s oil industry.
May 3, 2017, 11:31 AM MDT
On March 24, 2017, Shell Canada and NCS Multistage completed 366 stages across four wells in the Duvernay formation.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
FluidOil has entered into a cooperation agreement with The Steam Oil Production Company to explore the potential of integrating FluidOil’s Viscositor Heavy-to-Light (VHTL) oil upgrading technology into an offshore steam flooding project.
May 3, 2017, 6 AM MDT
Encana Corporation reported net earnings of $431 million in the first quarter compared to a net loss of $379 million in the first quarter of 2016.
May 2, 2017, 8:20 AM MDT
Fractal Systems, Inc. announced that Dave McDougall has joined the company as vice-president of engineering.
May 2, 2017, 7:24 AM MDT
Alberta’s oilsands sector is at the cusp of a technological renaissance that could transform the industry similar to how innovations produced the shale revolution in the United States, a top CEO believes.
April 28, 2017, 6 AM MDT
BP plc today announced a “major breakthrough” in seismic imaging that has identified more than 200 million bblsof additional resources at BP’s Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
April 27, 2017, 9:33 AM MDT
DIVERGENT Energy Services Corp. said that the linear electromagnetic submersible pump installed on March 24, 2017 has been running continuously since start up and has achieved the major milestone of one month of run time.
April 27, 2017, 7:43 AM MDT
Ingenuity Lab, whose team specializes in nanotechnology, has created a unique product to suck oil out of water, and the group has been awarded $1.7 million from Natural Resources Canada to boost the project.
April 26, 2017, 10:42 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
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. installed a StackFRAC Titanium XV system in a challenging high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) well in a Jurassic reservoir in the Middle East.
April 24, 2017, 3:45 AM MDT
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