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Low emissions oil sands technology pilot hits major milestone
Radio frequency-based recovery test now up and running and producing oil
By Mario Toneguzzi on May 24, 2022, 2:33 pm MDT
Found this on AXE website, an article
Canadian Energy Centre Construction began in August 2021, and at the beginning of March this year the RF XL system was powered up. It’s been running consistently since then, Clark says, and achieved first oil at the beginning of April.
Preliminary results from the Marwayne project are encouraging, says Boucher, who is president of Saa Dene Group. Boucher served as Chief of the Fort McKay First Nation for more than 30 years between 1986 and 2019 and has been recognized for “remarkable accomplishments” in business and community leadership.
“It’s got a lot of positive aspects to it. It’s very clean and it’s really a good environmental footprint and result with respect to the technology being used. It’s got a lot of attractive features,” says Boucher.
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The technology’s potential is not just in Alberta, Clark says.
“We first got into this because of some people who were involved in California who wanted to think of an environmentally better way to produce this heavy oil than generating steam using natural gas and pumping that steam underground,” he says.
“It’s definitely something that could be used
in Alberta for both heavy oil and oilsands, and it could obviously be used in Saskatchewan for their heavy oil. But we have a lot of interest from international players as well, particularly people in California, the heavy oil operations around Bakersfield, and Central America, Columbia, and the Middle East as well, in Oman and Kuwait.
“It has a lot of international appeal.”