Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Free Webcast

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“The chief cause of problems is solutions.” -- Eric Sevareid (American Journalist, 1912-1992)
 
This looks interesting …
 
Oct 10, 2012
10:00 AM Central Daylight Time11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time09:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time03:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time
FREE
Approximately one hour.
Clyde Fulton, Specialist, Water Treatment - Heavy Oil Technology Centre , Statoil Canada Ltd John Zhou, Executive Director, Environmental Management , Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environment Solutions (AI-EES) James Cleland, General Manager , GE Heavy Oil Solutions Bill Heins, General Manager, Thermal Products , GE Water & Process Technologies Bob Tippee, Editor , Oil & Gas Journal
 
According to the Webcast site …
 
“While oil sands production continues to increase, many companies are finding ways to reduce water used in the recovery process. In fact in-situ projects recycle over 90% of the water used in their operations. Join a panel of GE and heavy oil industry experts as the topic of water sustainability in the heavy oil industry is discussed live from GE’s Calgary Innovation Centre. The current challenges facing the industry will be addressed and technologies that can be deployed to address water-specific initiatives will be highlighted.”
 
Two of the speakers are …
 
Clyde Fulton Specialist, Water Treatment - Heavy Oil Technology CentreStatoil Canada Ltd
John Zhou Executive Director, Environmental ManagementAlberta Innovates - Energy and Environment Solutions (AI-EES)
 
Alberta Innovates (http://www.albertainnovates.ca/) has funded a number of research projects pertaining to heavy oil.  Here’s one of them …
 
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"Toluene Depletion in Produced Oil Contributes to Souring Control in a Field Subjected to Nitrate Injection"
Akhil Agrawal †, Hyung soo Park †, Safia Nathoo †, Lisa M. Gieg †, Thomas R. Jack †, Kirk Miner ‡, Ryan Ertmoed ‡, Aaron Benko §, and Gerrit Voordouw *†
† Petroleum Microbiology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
‡ Baker Hughes Incorporated, 208 Saskatchewan Drive NE, Redcliff, Alberta, T0J 2P0, Canada
§ Enerplus Corporation, 3000 333 Seventh Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2Z12, Canada
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2012, 46 (2), pp 1285–1292
DOI: 10.1021/es203748b
Publication Date (Web): December 9, 2011
e-mail: voordouw@ucalgary.ca
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SEARCH TIP:  Explore what else Alberta Innovates has been involved in, by searching Google® Scholar using the following search statement:
 
"alberta innovates" AND "heavy oil"
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