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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…
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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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Energy Foot-Print Reduction for Ethylene Manufacturing Process
With facilities in Calgary and Joffre, Nova Chemicals manufactures chemicals, plastic resins, and end products while working to keep their environmental impact to an absolute minimum. This energy efficiency project aimed to reduce GHG emissions by improving separation processes in ethylene manufacturing through innovative micro-porous molecular sieves that separate similar hydrocarbon molecules. Current ethylene manufacturing…
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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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Binary Fluid Compression: A Platform Technology
Founded by the Alberta Mining Corporation (AMC) and Chief Scientist Wayne May, this Calgary-based company is seeking to provide people around the world with clean energy and water through technological innovation. Implementing an unprecedented method, Binary Fluid Injector technology uses a high-performance heat pump or refrigeration cycle that is driven directly by thermal energy –…
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Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie Evaporator Project
The old adage ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ rings true for this project that demonstrated energy efficient technology at an Alberta pulp mill. The Grande Prairie Evaporator Project is the final addition to a clean energy overhaul. This high efficiency evaporator system aimed to gather an additional 100,000 pounds of…
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Whitecourt Energy Efficiency Project
The Whitecourt Recovered Energy Project signaled NRGreen’s first venture into Alberta. NRGreen installed a waste heat recovery generation system on a compressor site to produce 13.8 MW of power. Waste heat recovery units capture the exhaust from natural gas turbines and convert it into emissions-free electricity. This was the first installation of the system and…
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Waste Heat Power Production from Amine Stream
Genalta Power Systems Inc., a Canadian renewable energy company, focuses primarily on creating cost-effective and environmentally responsible electricity with technologies that convert waste energy into power for use in the oil and gas industry. Site owners are provided with solutions like base load green energy, increased plant efficiencies, operating cost reductions, greenhouse gas emission credits,…
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Installation of Air/Fuel Ratio Controllers and Vent Gas Capture on Engines
Cenovus Energy Inc. is a Canadian integrated oil company. Operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, which use specialized methods to drill and pump the oil to the surface, and established natural gas and oil production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Cenovus staff identified two technologies that could be used in their operations to increase…
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Vent Gas Capture for Engine Fuel Use
Encana is a North American energy producer, producing natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs). ERA invested in a pilot project with Encana Corporation that involved installing 59 different vent gas capture units in natural gas compressor stations. Compressor stations help with the transportation of natural gas, and vent methane during the process. The…
