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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. The released water is recovered and recycled.

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Occidental Petroleum and Chevron invest in direct air carbon capture and synthetic fuels company Carbon Engineering

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Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) The DAC plants are location-independent and can be co-located with an oilfield operation for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). CE has been developing DAC technology since 2009 and capturing CO 2 from the atmosphere at a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C. since 2015.

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ExxonMobil to proceed with $14B Hebron heavy oil project off Canada’s East Coast; more than 700B barrels of oil

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Exxon Mobil Corporation will develop the Hebron oil field offshore the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador using a gravity-based structure that will recover more than 700 million barrels of oil, an increase from earlier estimates. The platform is being designed for daily production of 150,000 barrels of oil.

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Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

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The agreement combines Topsoe’s technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering with Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and industry know-how. The process conditions are carefully chosen to promote reaction pathways that favor high yields of high-quality renewable oil.

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Canada adopts stricter emissions standards for ships; further alignment with US on air emissions

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The Government of Canada is adopting stricter environmental standards to reduce air emissions from ships navigating in Canadian waters. These changes further align Canada’s air emission standards with the United States. The changes we are announcing today will help make our oceans and lakes cleaner by reducing ship emissions.

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U of Alberta researchers develop “Reservoir on a Chip” for more efficient oil reservoir engineering

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University of Alberta (Canada) researchers have designed a microfluidic chip which represents the pore structure of a naturally occurring oil-bearing reservoir rock and enables performing traditional waterflooding experiments in this “reservoir-on-a-chip” (ROC). —Gunda et al. Reservoir-on-a-chip. Click to enlarge. Mitra and S.

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Ferus Natural Gas Fuels commissions 1st merchant LNG facility in Canada

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Ferus NGF) held the grand opening of the first merchant liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Canada. In addition to the merchant LNG plant, the company is jointly building two LNG liquefaction facilities with ENN Canada in Alberta and British Columbia. Ferus Natural Gas Fuels Inc.

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