Greenhouse Gas Reduction via Passive Solar-Bio Oil Sands Water Treatment
H2nanO and upstream energy industry partners will demonstrate a new, combined approach of solar photocatalytic and biological treatment process water to improve water quality and reduce emissions via natural remediation pathways. The project will aim to convert waters requiring long-term storage or sub-surface disposal into an environmental benefit for carbon sequestration and emissions abatement. This…
Reducing Methane Emissions and Other Environmental Impacts from Oil Sands Tailings and Ponds – Deployment of Sustainable Technology
Titanium is working with Canadian Natural Resources Limited (Canadian Natural) to conduct engineering design for an oil sands tailings treatment system that eliminates certain tailings streams while recovering bitumen, solvent, and high-value minerals. By preventing solvent and bitumen release, the vast majority of methane emissions from mined oil sands operations can be reduced. This technology…
In-Pit Extraction Process
An Alternative Process to Conventional Oil Sands Mining Canadian Natural has developed the In Pit Extraction Process (IPEP) as an innovative alternative to conventional oil sands slurry preparation, bitumen extraction, and tailings handling. Funded through ERA #2: Oilsands Innovation in 2017, this project demonstrated commercial feasibility by achieving continuous 24-hour all-season operation at the target…
Kearl ConDex Flue Gas Heat and Water Recovery Project
This project will demonstrate ConDex boiler flue gas and water recovery technology at Imperial’s Kearl Oil Sands mine. The ConDex technology is designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by capturing and using exhaust heat otherwise lost to the atmosphere through the flue gas streams in oil sands mining operations. The technology is a high-performance…
Area fugitive emission measurements of methane & carbon dioxide
Canadian Natural has partnered with Alberta Based LuxMux, Boreal Laser, RWDI Air, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), the University of Alberta, and others to conduct a comprehensive program to improve detection, monitoring and quantification of methane emissions from area sources such as mine faces and tailings ponds. By developing a holistic system of sensors…
Alberta Oil Sands Energy Efficiency & GHG Mitigation Roadmap Program
Suncor Energy Inc., one of Canada’s premier integrated energy companies, works in the development and upgrading of oil sands, conventional and offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining, and product marketing in Canada under the Petro-Canada brand. Developed in 2012 by Suncor with Jacobs Consultancy, the Alberta Oil Sands Energy Efficiency and GHG Mitigation Roadmap…
