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Canada oil sands producers form alliance to improve environmental performance

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Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation. This would improve plant reliability.

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Canada and Alberta to Invest C$865M in Athabasca Oil Sands Carbon Capture and Storage Project

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The provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada will invest C$865 million (US$822 million) in a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Athabasca oil sands. Tags: Canada Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Oil sands. The project will capture and store up to 1.2

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ESP artificial lift company ZiLift secures £4M capital investment led by GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips JV

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Oil and gas services company Schlumberger defines artificial lift as any system that adds energy to the fluid column in a wellbore with the objective of initiating and improving production from the well. heavylift is intended to produce heavy oil and sand reliably at high temperatures. Source: Schlumberger. Click to enlarge.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Source: Chevron. Here, Chevron has reduced its steam:oil ratio (i.e.,

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NABC pursuing 2 refinery insertion points for finished advanced biomass fuel production

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NREL performed dilute acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of both NABC feedstocks (harvest residues from Catchlight Energy LLC (a 50:50 joint venture between Chevron and Weyerhauser, earlier post ) and corn stover from ISU) and shipped the hydrolysate to Amyris for testing. Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Sugars. HTL process strategy.

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Shell launches commercial operation of Quest carbon capture and storage in Alberta oil sands

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Shell marked the official opening of the Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada, and the start of commercial operations there. Te Storage zone is a formation called Basal Cambrian Sands (BCS). The CO 2 is a byproduct of the production of hydrogen, which is used to upgrade the bitumen.

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Shell to proceed with Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the oil sands

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Shell will proceed with the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada. billion Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture owners (Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil) and with support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta.

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