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Enhanced JetShear Regional Hub Development Project
Reducing Emissions and Costs in Bitumen Production This project from Fractal Systems Inc. was funded through ERA’s Partnership Intake Program in 2018 and aimed to develop their novel Enhanced JetShear (EJS) technology. While the project was cancelled, it was meant to be the first large-scale commercial facility to deploy this technology and confirm its economic
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Suncor PURE Demonstration Facility
This project aimed to advance the development of its partial upgrading technologies to reduce diluent requirements for bitumen transportation. Funded through ERA’s Shovel-Ready call and announced in 2021, Suncor planned to conduct a commercial-scale demonstration of this technology. The funding relationship was ultimately cancelled in 2024.
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CLEANSEAS™ Demonstration Project
Demonstrating an Innovative Bitumen Upgrading System This project was a follow-on to the Molten Sodium Upgrading Pilot Plant project and was funded through ERA’s Oil Sands Innovation call in 2018. Enlighten Innovations proposed a demonstration pilot of its proprietary DSU® technology to confirm its commercial applications; however, it was ultimately terminated prior to completion. Enlighten
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Partial upgrader with integrated water treatment
Cenovus planned to demonstrate a single-step bitumen upgrading process that integrates water treatment with partial bitumen upgrading. Funded through ERA #2: Oil Sands Innovation and announced in 2018, the project goal was to build, install and operate the upgrader in preparation for a well pad scale-up at the Christina Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage facility. The
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Molten Sodium Upgrading Pilot Plant
Refining Bitumen Without Sulfur Oxide Emissions Funded through Round 8: Oil and Gas in 2014, the project objective was to design, build and operate a 10 barrel per day (bpd) pilot plant using Enlighten Innovation’s (formerly called Field Upgrading) proprietary DSU® technology. This pilot aimed to scale the technology to a larger continuous process at
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MEG Low intensity Bitumen Upgrading – Field Pilot
Upgrading Bitumen with an Energy Efficient Process MEG Energy Corp. (MEG) developed an innovative process called HI-Q® to efficiently convert bitumen into crude oil suitable for transport by pipeline. Funded through Round 4: Carbon Capture plus Energy Technology in 2012, the primary goal of this project was to bridge the gap between the laboratory and
