PTTEP Canada will join N-Solv in its waterless bitumen extraction pilot in northern Alberta CALGARY—The Canadian subsidiary of Thai state-owned oil and gas firm PTT Public Co. Ltd., is joining Calgary ...

N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage ...

There is not much to see at well A022. On the surface, it looks like any of the hundreds of other wells sunk deep below the boreal forest around Fort McMurray into the oil sands. Pipes run across the ...

The Carbon Capture and Conversion Center of Excellence (CCCC) at the School of Energy Resources (SER) recently migrated the coal solvent extraction pilot plant from the Energy Innovation Center (EIC) ...

CALGARY — The Thai energy company that collapsed an oilsands joint venture with Norway’s Statoil ASA early this year is investing in a technology touted to produce bitumen without using water and with ...

Asphalt Production Quality Control Asphalt Analyzer Laboratory Test Machine The InfraTest Asphalt Analyzer provides an automated and enclosed method of performing solvent extractions to verify asphalt ...

Solvents are used to increase production and reduce steam-to-oil ratio in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Variations of SAGD that use solvents, such as expanding solvent (ES) SAGD or ...

As global reserves of conventional crude oil continue to decline, increased reliance on heavy and ultraheavy feedstocks will result in higher upgrading costs and more importantly a comparatively ...