Project Industry: Oil Sands – In-Situ

  • Low severity ZLD using OTSG water

    As a clean tech company, Saltworks Technologies Inc. delivers innovative solutions for desalination and water treatment. With ERA funding, Saltworks developed and tested a robust waste heat driven desalination technology intended for treating highly impaired waters in the Albertan oil sands industry. The technology uses waste heat, which is abundant in the oil sands, to produce…

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  • OTSG Oxy-fuel Demonstration Project

    The OTSG Oxy-fuel Demonstration Carbon Capture Technology is a means to develop a reliable, lower-cost solution to capture CO2 from once-through steam generators that can be used on a commercial scale for in situ bitumen production. For this project, five partners, including Suncor Energy, constructed and operated a pilot plant to determine the operational challenges…

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  • HTC Purenergy – Devon Energy CO2 SAGD Capture Project

    Founded in 1997, HTC Purenergy is a Regina-based organization that is aligned with the University of Regina with commercial offices in Calgary, Vermont, and Sydney, Australia. Using their patented Purenergy CCS System, the company provided process design, and Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for a 1,000-tonne/day capture method in Devon Energy’s SAGD boilers at…

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  • Effective Solvent Extraction Incorporating Electromagnetic Heating (ESEIEH)

    The Harris Corporation of Melbourne, Florida, CNOOC Limited/Nexen Inc., Devon Canada and Suncor Energy Inc. make up the ESEIEH Consortium. The goal of the ESEIEH technology is to replace steam for in situ bitumen extraction with electromagnetic heating in combination with solvent dilution. The ESEIEH process eliminates the need for steam, while providing an improved…

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  • Commercial Demonstration of ET-DSP(TM) in the Athabasca Oil Sands

    Established in 2004, E-T Energy Ltd.’s team of eight scientists is developing environmentally friendly, energy efficient and economically viable methods of oil sands production through the process of Electro-thermal Dynamic Stripping (ET-DSP™). This is an electrical heating technology used extensively in the environmental industry to remediate contaminated soil and groundwater. E-T Energy Ltd. will operate…

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