Energy Success Stories
Heavy oil research program pays big dividends
IMPACT
The AERI/ARC Core Industry (AACI) Program, a collaborative approach to in situ heavy oil research and development, has generated $12 in economic activity for every $1 invested over the past 17 years.
CHALLENGE
The potential of Alberta's vast oil sands and heavy oil resources has long been known. To unleash that potential, industry needed improved, economically
viable recovery technologies. +read more
ARC's internationally recognized expertise in coalbed methane being applied in China
ARC has teamed up with two Alberta companies to apply its internationally recognized expertise in coalbed methane to a joint project between the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to reduce China's greenhouse gas emissions. +read more
Addressing climate change: ARC works with partners to monitor CO2 used for enhanced oil recovery
ARC is coordinating a multi-agency research project to monitor CO2 being used for an enhanced oil recovery project in Alberta. In the fall of 2004, ARC, the Alberta Geological Survey of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary studied the potential for a monitoring project at one of Alberta's four pilot CO2 capture and storage incentive programs. +read more
C-FER tackles Syncrude's coker problem
C-FER Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ARC, is working with Syncrude Canada to improve a lancing system for removing coke buildup inside its fluid coker reactor cyclones. Lancing involves injecting a coiled tubing string into a hot coker and spraying high-pressure water into the coker cyclones. This system aids in the removal of built up coke and extends the run life of the coker. +read more
Breakthrough gas separation technology wins federal support
A gas separation technology developed by ARC and its partners received federal support for its potential to reduce signifi cantly CO2 emissions in petrochemical and ethylene plants. ARC scientists developed a polymer membrane for olefi n-paraffin separation, a process used in the production of olefins, the chemical building blocks for most widely-used plastics. +read more
C-FER contributes expertise to the largest deepwater pipeline project ever built
C-FER Technologies contributed testing expertise to the Mardi Gras Transportation System project in the Gulf of Mexico. Working with BP and INTEC Engineering in Houston, C-FER provided full-scale design qualifi cation testing for a number of large diameter pipeline connectors, an integral part of the deepwater pipeline repair strategy. +read more