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Titanium Corporation receives patent for improved solvent recovery from oil sands tailings

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Titanium Corporation Inc. has secured what it calls a critical patent for its innovative technology which recovers hydrocarbon diluents (solvents) from oil sands tailings. Heavy minerals exist in Alberta’s oil sands in minor quantities. Earlier post.).

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TOYO Engineering signs multi-year oil sands deal

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Japan-based TOYO Engineering Corporation, through its Canadian subsidiary TOYO Engineering Canada Ltd., TOYO has performed major projects in the global oil and gas industry for more than 50 years and, with the EPC scope of work for the JACOS Hangingstone Project, TOYO will be advancing its business in the Canadian oil and gas sector.

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CO2 Solutions’ enzymatic carbon capture technology performance exceeds targets in oil sands project

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an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, announced that it has exceeded the second set of technical performance milestones for its oil sands project. Industrially optimized enzyme catalysts employed in the testing demonstrated robust performance both in absorption and solvent regeneration.

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Titanium awarded final Canadian patent for oil sands tailings technology; results from pilot

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Titanium Corporation Inc. has been awarded the final of the three core Canadian patents on its oil sands tailings technology. Titanium’s pilot achieved recoveries of 82% of residual bitumen from the oil sands tailings stream and 98% of the solvents. Earlier post.)

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

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Using activated amine (ADIP-X), Quest will capture one-third of the CO 2 emissions from Shell’s Scotford Upgrader, which turns oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude that can be refined into fuel and other products. Te Storage zone is a formation called Basal Cambrian Sands (BCS).

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Devon Energy obtains approval for third Jackfish oil sands project

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US-based Devon Energy Corporation has received regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water to move forward with the company’s third oil sands project in Canada. Like Jackfish 1 & 2, Jackfish 3 represents an estimated 300 million barrels of gross recoverable oil.

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Canada Approves Petrochina Purchase of Athabasca Oil Sands Properties

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Tony Clement, Canada’s Minister of Industry, has approved the acquisition by PetroChina of the MacKay and Dover Oil Sands projects from Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation (AOSC) “ because I am satisfied that the investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada. ”. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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