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Technical Areas Coalbed Methane / Unconventional Gas Upcoming Coalbed Methane Conference e-Business Federal and Provincial Privacy Regulation Executive Breakfast and Workshop Wireless, Telecommunications and e-Business Forums Combine for Two-day Fall Conference XPADL A&D Data Exchange Project TIS electroBusiness / ConocoPhillips e-Invoicing Launch TIS Eco-efficient and GHG Technology Environment, Health and Safety Well Test Flare Plume Monitoring Project Accelerated Hydrocarbon Remediation Luscar BlackEarth™ TIS Heavy Oil Norwest Corporation Selected by Orion Oil for THAI Pilot Design Project Thermal Heavy Oil Energy Efficiency Opportunities Workshop Innovation Meeting Oil and Gas Producers Needs Forum Natural Gas Production Enhanced Gas Recovery and CO2 Storage for Alberta Gas Pools JIP – 2nd Alberta Research Council TIS Oil Production Improved Waterflood Performance under Bottom Water Conditions JIP – 3rd Alberta Research Council TIS Oil Sands R&D Funding NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program TIS – May 29, 2003 R&D Tax CCRA – Third Party R&D in the Oil and Gas Industry 8th SR&ED TIS CCRA – The Climate Change Agenda – R&D Challenges and Opportunities – 9th SR&ED TIS – May 21, 2003 Reservoir Recovery / Geoscience Regain Permeability in Tight Gas Reservoirs JIP 1st Alberta Research Council EGOR TIS Bio-Competitive Exclusion (BCX) – P.K. Services TIS Water Abatement in Gas Wells JIP – 4th Alberta Research Council EGOR TIS PTAC News |
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Spring 2003 - Issue 24
Coalbed
Methane / Unconventional Gas The Fifth Annual Unconventional Gas and Coalbed Methane Conference is scheduled to take place at the Westin Hotel, October 22-24, 2003. Participants will hear presentations focused on Canadian content featuring current and emerging technology in all types of unconventional gas, including coalbed methane, tight gas sands, gas shales and gas hydrates, as well as case studies treating environmental, regulatory, legal and other issues. Registration details will be available on PTAC’s web site in July 2003. For more information,
please contact – e-Business In January, PTAC responded to an industry request for information on how upstream petroleum organizations can plan to comply with federal and provincial privacy legislation. As a result, PTAC facilitated an Executive Breakfast at the Petroleum Club on April 10th, where attendees heard Julien Delisle, Executive Director of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada review current federal privacy legislation. Upcoming provincial legislation is expected to establish new standards and expectations for the collection, disclosure, use and protection of personal information and will be in force January 1, 2004. After the breakfast, Mr. Delisle, along with his provincial counterpart, Tom Thackeray, Executive Director of the Information Management, Access and Privacy, Government of Alberta, provided legislative overviews to participants at a full day workshop hosted by Shell Canada Ltd. Producer and service and supply company representatives reviewed an industry legal context-setting presentation and technology solution presentations during the morning session. After lunch, participants chose one of three breakout groups – Safety and Emergency Response Plans, Joint Venture/Land Agreements and Stakeholder Relations to brainstorm solutions for compliance. To view a Privacy
Diagnostic Tool and other related Privacy Legislation Links, please visit
the PTAC web site at
www.ptac.org/linktech1.html.
For more information, please contact –
Upcoming Conference PTAC has rescheduled the Spring Wireless and Telecommunications forum to take place as the first day of a two-day conference on November 4th and 5th; the second day of the conference will feature e-Business presentations. PTAC welcomes potential presenters to submit a 150-word abstract for either of the two subject areas by October 1, 2003. Watch the
PTAC
web site at
www.ptac.org/techebuf.html for more information on this conference as details
become available or contact –
Eco-efficient and GHG Technologies The Green Toolbox Conference is scheduled to take place on June 25-26. Presentations topics include:
To view the draft agenda, visit
the PTAC web site at
www.ptac.org/techeetf.html.
For more information, please
contact – Environmental The petroleum industry plays an important role in sponsoring environmental research in Canada. The upstream oil and gas industry has a long record of initiating and funding studies that offer practical, cost-effective solutions to environmental issues. Once again, the Environmental Research Advisory Council (ERAC) is seeking applications for the 2004 funding cycle for projects that are of focused interest to industry. ERAC funds are distributed with direction from CAPP member companies who are dedicated to improving environmental, safety and health performance of their operations. To be approved for funding, projects must provide science-based solutions to current and emerging environmental issues that are critical to the industry. ERAC funded projects are collaboratively funded and managed by PTAC technical steering committees. ERAC favours working together with other funders to co-sponsor projects over acting as the sole research sponsor. Applicants are thus strongly encouraged to secure start-up funds from other sponsors as they apply to ERAC for funding. Last year, ERAC provided more than $900,000 in funding for environmental research projects. CAPP’s priorities for 2004 are to identify cost-effective ways to:
PTAC has been contracted to coordinate and facilitate the ERAC process. Applications are prioritized by industry members who identify which projects will receive funds. The deadline for applications is June 30th, 2003. An application form is available online at www.ptac.org/links/eracappl04.html. For more information on this
process, please visit the PTAC web site at
Project Test Sites Required A project operating under the Air Issues Technical Steering Committee is assessing new technology for remote monitoring of SO2 in plumes downwind of sour gas well test flares. A mobile Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) system, operated by Spectrasyne Ltd., UK, will be in Alberta from May 26 to June 20. The project will evaluate DIAL for remote monitoring of SO2, measurement of fugitive emissions of hydrocarbons from gas processing and measurement of combustion efficiency of solution gas flares. PTAC would like to identify additional solution gas flaring and well test flaring sites with suitable access for testing. If you
are interested in volunteering sites for this project, please contact – Heavy
Oil On January 23, 2003, Norwest Corporation hosted a PTAC Technology Information Session to introduce its new, fully-integrated in situ oil sands and heavy oil team formed to reduce risk in the development of new leases and new technology. Shortly after the presentation, Orion Oil Canada Ltd., a Heavy Oil Business Unit of Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd., called to discuss plans for the world’s first field pilot test of the THAI (Toe-to-Heel-Air-Injection) process in the Athabasca oil sands. Orion plans to spend approximately $4 million in 2003 on seismic, delineation drilling, pilot project engineering, design and planning. By mid-summer, Orion plans to apply for regulatory approval to build an experimental field pilot. Norwest and Orion subsequently entered into an arrangement under which Norwest will prepare the project DBM (design basis memorandum) including the design and cost of the facilities, wells, data collection, operating guidelines, and spearhead the regulatory application for the pilot. AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd. will cover the environmental aspects. Orion is providing in-house expertise for geology and site selection. Dr. Conrad Ayasse, one of the inventors of the THAI process, is leading the numerical simulation effort. Orion plans to locate the pilot on Petrobank’s recently acquired 42 sections of 100% owned oil sands leases in the Christina Lake area west of Conklin, Alberta. Petrobank’s interest in THAI was stimulated by an earlier PTAC information session on the process. THAI is a radical modification to other in situ combustion processes. It combines a vertical air injection well with a horizontal production well. A combustion front is created that sweeps the oil from the toe of the horizontal producing well to the heel to efficiently recover an estimated 80% of oil in place while upgrading the crude oil in situ. For more information on the THAI pilot, please contact - Joe Aiello Chris Bloomer
Innovation The Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) and the Alberta Department of Energy (ADOE) are cooperating in a project to engage the energy industry to determine the research and technology priorities essential to increase recoverable production of unconventional gas and conventional oil and gas, as well as to bolster industry sustainability and profitability. Two workshops are scheduled to be held, May 27th and May 30th. Participants are encouraged to prepare for the workshops by reading the discussion paper entitled, “The Challenge and Opportunity – The AERI Report on Stimulating Research and Technology in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin,” and by completing the related online survey available on PTAC’s web site at: www.ptac.org/survey1.html .The first workshop, “Improving Conventional Oil and Gas Profitability and Sustainability by Developing and Applying Technology” will focus on confirming upcoming technology needs so that relevant R&D projects can be initiated. Building on the technology needs outlined on the first day, the second workshop, “Enhancing R&D in the Conventional Oil and Gas Industry – Implementation and Policy Challenges” will be instrumental in developing a shared understanding of the barriers and limitations, together with potential policy and related responses to implementing required R&D and technology initiatives. For more information on these workshops, visit PTAC’s web site at www.ptac.org/techinnw.html or contact –Arlene Merling Director, Operations phone: (403) 218-7702 Forum Postponed In order to capitalize on speaker availabilities, the Meeting Oil and Gas Producer Needs through Innovation Forum previously scheduled for June 5th, 2003 has been postponed until later this fall. As a result, this forum’s call for presentations has been extended until October 1st. Potential speakers may submit a 150-word abstract for review to Arlene Merling by email at amerling@ptac.org or by fax at (403) 920-0054 for presentations focused on the following topics:
All presentations must have an industry co-sponsor willing to lend their company name to verify the presentation is “worthy of industry consideration.” For more information or to submit an abstract,
please contact – PTAC News
Board Changes We welcome to PTAC’s Board of Directors:
We express our thanks to Andrew Seto for his contributions as a member of PTAC’s Board and wish him well in his future endeavours.
New
Members PTAC now has 167 members. We welcome the following new members: Producers
Service and Supply Companies
Individuals
Learning Institutions
www.ptac.org Please visit PTAC’s web site at www.ptac.org for information on PTAC events, projects, members, publications and much more. PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada Facilitating Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Collaborative Research and Development (R&D) in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry PTAC is a not-for-profit association governed by a volunteer board of directors made up of representatives from producers, service and supply companies, research and educational institutions, inventors and government. P-talk is published quarterly – both electronically and in hard copy – and is available through PTAC. If you would prefer not to receive the hard copy, please contact Lorie Frei of PTAC. Material may be reprinted without permission but credit would be appreciated. Contact Us PTAC Eric Lloyd Denis Gaudet Arlene Merling Brenda Belland Lorie Frei Kerri Markle Tannis Such Arlene Merling
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