CALGARY — The same technology used to search for signs of ancient life on Mars could be key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian oilsands.
At least that’s what members of the Pathways Alliance — an industry consortium of this country’s six largest oilsands companies — appear to believe. On Thursday, the group announced Impossible Sensing Energy, the Calgary-based affiliate of U.S. space exploration company Impossible Sensing, as the winner in an industry-sponsored global competition aimed at helping to accelerate the widescale use of steam-reducing technologies in oilsands operations.
“A lot of the constraints that NASA has are extremely similar to the constraints oil and gas has,” Torre said. “We’re looking at a 20 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, all the way up to 90 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in some cases, by using these solvents. So the potential is huge,” Jickling said.
“The economics of using solvent with steam can be challenging in low crude price cycles when the costs of deploying and recovering solvents is higher than revenues from the incremental production,” the report said.Article content “This whole piece of work started because of a tough question that we needed answers to,” Jickling said. “This is one of the big science questions we need to solve to get this out and widely used across the industry.”Article content
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