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a win-win for the bottom line and the environment BY DANIELA TRNKA

Paying a price for emissions BY MELANIE COLLISON

reducing emissions one region at a time BY MELANIE COLLISON

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Challenging climate change BY MELANIE COLLISON

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Cold lake evolution means same production with less water BY JIM BENTEIN

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Popularity of brackish water for steam generation in saGD projects is increasing

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Cenovus finds a way to make more steam and less waste

Directive 074 still a work in progress BY MELANIE COLLISON

regional plan focuses on protecting and reclaiming land BY MELANIE COLLISON

land of the biologically diverse BY MELANIE COLLISON

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Closing the tap for fracking BY R.P. STASTNY

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Water use becomes a public conversation

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Groundwater monitoring is a province-wide initiative

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Clare Demerse, The Pembina Institute

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Eric newell, Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation

Dr. Dan Wicklum, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

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wArM wELCoME to the fi rst edition of Going for Green: Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory. Th is publication was developed through a collaboration between the Canadian Heavy Oil Association, the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources, the Government of Alberta and JuneWarren-Nickleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Energy Group. Our hope is that this guidebook will provide you with insight into some of the innovation that is happening within Canada and the province of Alberta to continually reduce our environmental footprint. Canada takes great pride in protecting our beautiful country and the global environment. We have a long-standing history of engaging in conversation and discussion with stakeholders to understand their concerns, and we are committed to fi nding solutions that are responsible and balanced. From a technical perspective, Canada is a leader in the development of technology and innovation for the energy industry that is environmentally responsible, sensitive to environmental impacts and focused on continuous improvement. The Canadian Heavy Oil Association is made up of over 2,000 individual members (not corporate members) that work in Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy industry. We have a strong focus on the environment, as we and our families live and breathe in that environment each and every day. We are invested in keeping the environment healthy for ourselves, our children and the global community at large. As we work directly in the Canadian energy industry, we also bring that strong environmental focus to our work each and every day. I look forward to this being the fi rst of many Environmental Innovation Guidebooks. Enjoy!

Kym Fawcett 2012-13 President, Canadian Heavy Oil Association

CANADIAN HEAVY oIL AssoCIAtIoN the canadian Heavy oil association (cHoa) is a multidisciplinary, volunteer-based, not-forprofit association with a membership of 2000-plus individuals. For over 25 years, cHoa has been the premium forum for members to obtain technical information, interact in a social setting and keep current on business issues that affect our industry. cHoa members can be found working for industry players, research organizations, regulatory groups and environmental specialists, and they have broad expertise and interests, including exploration, development, production, upgrading, transportation, economics, project management, stakeholder engagement, and marketing of heavy oil and oilsands.

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cHoa strives to present a balanced view through the sharing of technical information and invites knowledge sharing on all aspects of the heavy oil and oilsands industry from a variety of viewpoints. Programs include technical and social events, conferences, workshops and other information sharing initiatives. our goal has been to collaborate with other organizations and associations to provide benefits to our members, the industry and the public. this collaboration has resulted in a number of valuable industry resources, including the Heavy Oil & Oilsands Guidebook, a Heavy oil 101 industry overview course, and the CHOA Handbook, a comprehensive anthology of current knowledge and the future potential of heavy oil and bitumen. For more information please visit our website at choa.ab.ca or phone 403.269.1755.

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N BEHALF oF tHE CANADIAN soCIEtY For UNCoNVENtIoNAL rEsoUrCEs (CsUr), thank you for choosing Going For Green: Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory as your reference source for environmental services in the energy sector. Th is fi rst edition of the guidebook has come to fruition as a result of a joint project undertaken by CSUR, the Canadian Heavy Oil Association, JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group (JWN) and the Alberta government. All of the partners saw a growing need to provide a one-stop source for information and contacts related to our rapidly growing and progressively specialized environmental technologies being used, particularly relative to unconventional resource development. JWN is Canada’s oldest and most recognized energy information provider—they are truly “where energy companies turn to stay connected.” Their other directory publications—the Canadian Oil Register, the Canadian Oilfield Service & Supply Database and the Unconventional Resource Guidebook + Directory (another project CSUR participated in!)—have credible reputations as vital industry references. CSUR is proud to partner with JWN on this new product! Providing a balance between the innovative and the practical, the Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory is a tangible extension of CSUR’s goals and activities. CSUR is active across Canada as proponents of responsible and sustainable unconventional resource development. After a decade of service, CSUR believes the creation of this publication is appropriate relative to our growth as an organization and the industry’s scope, relevance and focus going into 2013 and beyond. As president of CSUR, I look forward to hearing your feedback on this exciting new publication.

Kevin Heffernan President, Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources

tHE CANADIAN soCIEtY For UNCoNVENtIoNAL rEsoUrCEs the canadian Society for unconventional resources (cSur) is a membership-based, non-profit society formed to support the responsible exploration and development of unconventional resources in canada. the organization has been extremely active in encouraging the development of our country’s unconventional hydrocarbon resources, focusing on natural gas from coal, tight gas sands and carbonates, shale gas, gas hydrates, and, more recently, light tight oil. Since its inception in 2002, cSur has had a significant impact on the evolution of the unconventional industry in canada. with a strong focus on technology transfer between industry, government, stakeholders and First nations, cSur’s major role is to provide this information to enable resource development in an environmentally, socially and economically sensitive manner. Since the society’s creation, the concept of providing value for and responsibility to their

members has been an integral part of cSur’s operations. cSur has been able to grow as an industry association while at the same time providing exceptional return-on-investment to their membership through: • Publications, videos and other resource materials; • Technical events; and • Its role as an industry proponent with governments and various stakeholder groups. In addition, to help increase awareness about unconventional resources, cSur offers presentations at open houses, luncheons, forums, workshops, field trips and conferences, all of which are often technical in nature. the society also develops materials for a wider audience, with an emphasis on the importance of the unconventional resource industry, its history, operations and best practices. cSur has worked very hard to become established as the go-to organization focused on unconventional resources. For more information, please visit csur.com.

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GoVernMent oF aLBerta

s MINIstEr oF ALBErtA ENtErPrIsE AND ADVANCED EDUCAtIoN, I have the pleasure of leading one of the most dynamic ministries in the province. With the renewed government focus on entrepreneurship and innovative thinking, Alberta is poised to take advantage of a unique opportunity to diversify the province’s economy and create a new vision and legacy for the future. That vision focuses on leveraging Alberta’s traditional natural resources and enhancing our commitment to more sustainable development. By exploring innovations, products and services with a greener focus, we can expand our economy and create new jobs and industries while ensuring environmental sustainability for generations to come. The Government of Alberta is pleased to be a collaborator in the Going for Green: Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory. Th is new publication is designed to inform and educate Albertans, Canadians and the world about how we, as a province, are focusing on industries and innovations directed towards sustainability. Th is guidebook will also help share our knowledge and expertise, and promote the ways in which Alberta is dedicated to realizing that greener future. From developing health, technology, energy, and environment and bio solutions to establishing our own greening government strategy, the Government of Alberta is working with industry and postsecondary partners to shape a sustainable future for the entire province. I welcome you to discover Alberta’s new approach in the Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory to the province’s energy sectors.

Thomas A. Lukaszuk Deputy Premier Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education Ministerial Liaison to the Canadian Forces MLA, Edmonton—Castle Downs

ALBErtA ENtErPrIsE AND ADVANCED EDUCAtIoN education and entrepreneurship are cornerstones of the dynamic economy that albertans continue to drive through their knowledge, adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit. alberta enterprise and advanced education aligns economic development activities in the province with post-secondary education, entrepreneurship, industry training, workforce development, immigration, and research and innovation. alberta is a leader in canada in the implementation of this unique, inclusive structure, which makes the most of existing links between government functions to create a stronger, more robust economy.

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Building a skilled workforce through accessible post-secondary education and innovation helps advance our knowledge-inspired economy—an economy that is prosperous, diverse, competitive and stable. alberta enterprise and advanced education is cultivating a knowledge-inspired and more diversified economy by aligning initiatives to strengthen the province’s skilled workforce, increase the number and effectiveness of business start-ups, support the commercialization of technology, and focus on solving the world’s biggest challenges through an outstanding research and innovation system. In this way, the ministry advances the goals of albertans to engage with the world around them and, through investment and innovation at home, to play a leading role in making our province, our country and our world a better place for everyone.

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t probably doesn’t need to be said that one of the biggest challenges facing oil and gas producers in Alberta right now is access to markets. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers reports that 2011 oil production was 2.7 million barrels for western Canada and predicts that it will grow to 6.1 million barrels by 2030. Natural gas production is predicted to grow to over 16 billion cubic feet per day from its current production of just under 14 billion cubic feet per day. However, without infrastructure in the form of pipelines or railways, there will be a surplus of energy with no access to consumers. One of the largest roadblocks in the way of the infrastructure is environmental concern. A key argument against the Keystone XL Pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast is that it will transport products that are produced in an environmentally destructive way and will create more environmental risks in the way of spills and emissions. Other concerns raised by opponents of pipelines include the controversial use of fracking to produce natural gas. Because of these concerns, the world is keeping a close eye on the environmental impacts involving Alberta’s oil and gas operations. To be sustainable in the long term, producers and regulators need to overcome this perception and continue to make improvements and advancements that will make the energy Alberta and Canada produce more environmentally sustainable.

Unfortunately, changing the mindset and the operations of an entire industry is not an overnight process. Technologies need time and money to be developed, and then even more time to gain traction and be implemented. There are still areas that need to be improved upon that the industry is aware of and, as a whole, it is doing what it can to make changes. Albertans should be proud of the steps their government has taken to maintain the sustainability of energy production. In April, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Diana McQueen proposed increasing the province’s current greenhouse gas reduction targets. Currently, industrial operations that are considered large emitters are required to reduce their

greenhouse gas emissions by 12 per cent. If that target isn’t met, they must pay a $15-per-tonne levy. McQueen’s proposal would increase the reduction to 40 per cent, as well as raise the fee to $40 per tonne. And while this increase wouldn’t allow Alberta to meet its climate change reduction targets, it would at least get the province closer than it currently is. Going for Green: The Environmental Innovations Guidebook & Directory is a look at the strides Alberta oil and gas companies have made to reduce their impact, the regulations and guidelines the provincial and federal governments have put in place to ensure our resources are developed in a sustainable manner, and the research being done on better ways we can produce oil and gas in the future.

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Current environmental approach is 41 YeArS in THe MAKing By G o r d o n Ja r eM Ko

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41-year-old wish is granted by the new combination of environmental and industrial regulation into a single watchdog for all aspects of oil, natural gas, oilsands and coal production projects from cradle to grave: the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). Widespread desire for unity, clarity and eﬃciency emerged when the provincial environment department was still only a one-year-old fi rst for Canada. The Alberta Environment Conservation Authority—at the

time an influential counterpart to the auditor general of the provincial fi nances and the ombudsman’s oversight of civil service conduct— reported the wish to the government in June 1972. As a response, a concept very like the AER stood out among recommendations in a 50-page summary of an inquiry conducted for the authority by the Edmonton branch of a prominent national engineering and planning fi rm, Underwood McLellan & Associates Limited (later UMA Group Limited and, since 2004, an

arm of global professional services conglomerate AECOM): A Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration and Pipeline Operations in the Province of Alberta. The inquiry uncovered an “overall liaison problem that exists between government and industry.” The report said, “The fi rst step necessary for attaining a solution is to improve the government structure and streamline the current liaison procedures.” As an obvious starting point, the fi rm said, “There is a need for the establishment

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leaders, and touring development hot spots, the firm said the nature of Alberta industry makes controlling its environmental effects always diﬃcult. Energy resources are dispersed across a province 95 per cent as big as Texas, “placing a heavy burden on the government to provide supervision and inspection over this large area,” said the study.

The burden is amplified by “the great variety of terrain and climatic conditions encountered in different districts of the province and even wide variation within a particular district. These variations in field conditions make it desirable and even necessary to provide flexibility in government regulations so that the procedure for approval of programs, the supervision of programs and the fi nal inspection can be varied depending on circumstances,” the report said. Multiple types of resourcedevelopment targets below the ground magnify the complexity of the landscape: “The geological conditions favorable for the accumulation of oil and gas vary considerably so that different exploration techniques are required in different fields. Regulations must be flexible to accommodate these varied procedures.” Gyrating economic conditions complicate the picture still more. Environmental management has to deal with “the inability of the government, or the petroleum industry for that matter, to forecast accurately the magnitude of oil and gas exploration activities within the province. Desirable preparation and planning for boom periods is seldom possible. The amount of exploration carried out in any particular year is largely dependent on conditions beyond the control of Alberta such as world and domestic demands for oil and gas, the availability of risk capital for exploration programs and the state of the internal and external economy.”

A Fine bALAnCe Alberta regulation also faces a notoriously rough-and-tumble business culture. There is “extreme diﬃculty of adequately protecting the environment

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as long as oil and gas exploration is carried out under ‘hurry-hurry’ conditions,” said the report. “Oil and gas exploration activities are carried out under extremely competitive conditions because large sums of money are involved. The risks are high, but the rewards may be very substantial. Traditionally, exploration particularly has been undertaken on a ‘hurry-hurry’ basis and this mode of operation has resulted in high costs to the industry and inconvenience to the government— and has frequently resulted in unnecessary damage to the environment.” In its own annual report for 1972, the conservation authority dished out yet more food for thought. Environmental regulation has the potential to alter a society that puts a high value on personal independence, home-grown enterprise and the “level playing field” of economic democracy. “Another problem that can arise is the scale at which work must be done to satisfy the requirements of environmental management. If these are so onerous as to limit the opportunity for developing a resource industry only to companies and corporations that have immense fi nancial resources, then a specific social result comes about.” The authority warned, “In essence, a small operator, and perhaps even medium-sized operators, are denied entrance into a field that would otherwise be open for their enterprise and initiative. Moreover, the field is left then to the exclusive exploitation of very large companies, often based outside the country. It is important that unfortunate social consequences of this sort be avoided.” The authority’s advice was a sober response to the ’60s and ’70s environmentalists who were at least

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of a ‘Petroleum Agency,’ which would be given the responsibility of dealing with all requests submitted by members of the petroleum industry. The Petroleum Agency would act as a clearing house and would receive, process and provide the necessary documents or authorization.” After canvassing business, government, academic and conservationist

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as passionate as the 21st-century variety—and more potent. Instead of settling into sideline roles as taxexempt non-governmental organizations and publicity campaigners, the early eco-crusaders invaded the halls of political and government power. In Alberta, Bill Yurko took green gospel into the legislature as an energy engineer, Edmonton MLA and environment critic for Peter Lougheed’s Conservatives before they replaced the Social Credit regime. An ardent conservationist, Yurko derided the fi rst version of the environment department, set up in April 1971 by Social Credit legislation, as only a baby step in the right direction. He called for strong action to deal with eight Ps, or pillars, of modern civilization: property, profits, plunder, precedence, privilege, population, poverty and pollution. As Canada’s energy factory, Alberta had to deal with another big P—petroleum, he said. Yurko observed, “90 per cent of all scientists, engineers and technicians who ever have lived in the world are living today. Their capacity to disturb the environment is simply overwhelming.” Alberta’s natural resources were a problem, as well as wealth. “Production and consumption of fossil fuels in power plants, the internal combustion engine, chemical plants, refi neries, jet engines and other types of machines result in massive amounts of air, water, soil, thermal and noise pollution,” Yurko told the legislature during debate on the environment department legislation in February 1971. “Some 80 per cent of the pollution in North America, which includes Canada, is caused by the consumption and the exploration and exploitation of fossil fuel energy forms.”

LOUgHeeD bringS CHAnge Within a year, Lougheed became premier and appointed Yurko to be Alberta’s fi rst Conservative environment minister, presiding over rapid growth of the department’s legislated responsibilities, staff and scientific research. They drew boundaries against disruptive industry by making examples of big business schemes that were deemed to go too far in changing or degrading the environment and communities. They fought off a mammoth real estate development scheme for the scenic jewel of Banff National Park, Lake Louise. They killed a plan for a colossal power station and coal

The newly unified regime is built for further evolution. New legislative provisions require the AER to consult the provincial cabinet on regulation initiatives and give the energy minister power to send instructions to the agency. A policy management oﬃce is set up in the government as a think tank, with an initial assignment to assemble a clear compilation of the province’s vast array of environmental and industrial regulation. Time and cases will answer big questions raised by the new structure. Does it foster political interference with the traditional law court-like independence and expertise of the regulatory

“Oil and gas exploration activities [in Alberta] are carried out under extremely competitive conditions because large sums of money are involved. The risks are high, but the rewards may be very substantial.” — A Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration and Pipeline Operations in the Province of Alberta, published by underwood Mclellan & associates limited in 1972

strip mine on rich crop fields southeast of Edmonton. They enacted land conservation and reclamation legislation that raised standards across the board for oil, gas, oilsands and coal production. Efficiency was not the only provincial objective. Environmental impact assessments became fixtures of the energy scene, spawning conditions on project approvals that varied depending on their locations, types of resources and development approaches. Instead of immediately trying to unify industrial and environmental regulation, the government sprouted committees to knit together evolving knowledge and rules.

agency? Or does it create a two-way path for infusing scientific and technical advances into government policy while also keeping the regulator sensitive to changing public standards?

POLiCing THe inDUSTrY Ever since Alberta obtained ownership of its natural resources in 1930, the core theme of their management has been to make economic growth responsible, and thereby keep it politically possible. Hostility against oil and gas operations was aroused by their emergence on a large scale before the Second World War in Turner Valley, south of Calgary. An irate rancher distilled resentment against industrial disturbance of the original pastoral Alberta into a

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Discovery Centre by working with Imperial Oil and other fi rms during the industry’s pioneer era, then training generations of geologists as a University of Alberta professor. He recalled the contribution of oilfield law enforcement to the gusher in an oral history interview with the Alberta Geological Survey. Credit is owed to an ERCB engineer whose name has been lost in the mists of time as well as Imperial geologists Des Boggs and Doug Blair, Stelck says. Boggs learned that western Canadian oil hunters should look for fossil coral reefs formed in the Devonian geological era 400 million years ago by studying a 1920 Imperial exploration success in the Northwest Territories at Norman Wells. Blair confi rmed that Alberta had the target structure with a well east of Edmonton in the Bruderheim, Alta., farming community. The ERCB engineer sent the drilling rig in the right location by enforcing a board rule against interfering with bodies of water. In the winter of 1946-47, two rigs worked in Leduc County southwest of Edmonton. Number two’s well was dry. Number one set up in a farm slough. The ERCB ordered a location change. “The engineer said that’s

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the middle of the slough.” The pond was off the geological target. “If the well had been drilled there, it would have been a dry hole,” Stelck recalls. “It really comes down to Des Boggs recognized the reef up north, Doug Blair recognized the reef at Bruderheim, and the unknown engineer moved the well west just to keep out of the slough— they’re the discoverers of Leduc.” With the ERCB as the senior partner in the new combination, the AER’s heritage includes a distinctive Alberta resource management style: regulation that aims to foster a voluntarily responsible industry. Gerry DeSorcy, an ERCB career veteran who retired as its chairman, explained the approach in a board oral history interview. “The board could have been strongarmed and acted like a very rigid policeman from day one—and turned oil and gas regulation in Alberta into a cops-and-robbers game where the industry got away with everything it could when the board’s back was turned, and the board smacked the industry as hard as it could on every occasion it got caught at something,” DeSorcy said. “Over the long haul, in terms of the practice of sound conservation principles, the board approach has been a better one. The approach was working with the industry to make sure that it understood why these things were important, involving the industry in the development of the rules and regulations, and then standing back and letting the industry do what was expected of it and carrying out our surveillance.”

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pithy note that a field inspector for the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) found in a hilltop cairn erected as a geological marker by an oil exploration field party. The message said: “Get off. From this beautiful hill I can see seven stinking oil wells. So put an egg in your shoe and beat it.” With the ERCB cast in the lead role, Alberta resource management sought to channel devotion to the land, air, water and wildlife into intelligent regulation. The regime built a record of constructive action, including a hand in the 1947 Leduc No. 1 discovery by Imperial Oil that launched the modern industry. “The work of the conservation board paid off,” says Charles Stelck, an Edmonton earth scientist who earned a spot in the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame at the Leduc #1 Energy

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t surprises Don Thompson, former president of the Oil Sands Developers Group (OSDG), when environmental activists accuse the petroleum industry of ignoring its footprint. After all, his early oilpatch consulting career was spawned by an undergraduate degree in honours zoology from the University of Alberta and a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Toronto. “In 1976 or ’77, I began consulting in the environmental affairs area. In

those days, environmental legislation was new,” Thompson recalls. “Alberta had just passed its environmental legislation, and I believe Alberta was among the leaders in Canada.” He joined Syncrude Canada Ltd. in 1979, hired as the environmental coordinator responsible for updating the joint venture’s environmental impact assessment (EIA) forecasts. Between 1975 and 1980, there was a joint provincial-federal EIA for

Syncrude led by Alberta Environment that cost about $19 million and resulted in over 100 studies undertaken by university departments and consultants. Thompson found that the project was basically on track with no significant changes from the initial studies. While the technology used has changed, the same metrics are monitored today as in the late 1970s, he notes.

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“[Tailings ponds] were not built by people who were malicious; they were not built by people who were out of step with contemporary norms.” — don thompson, former president, oil sands developers Group

For example, Syncrude used to publish all of its environmental studies and place them in libraries across the province. Th is added tremendous knowledge to the field. Thompson became increasingly responsible for Syncrude’s environmental and regulatory affairs, aboriginal affairs, public affairs and public relations. He observes that this was “an interesting step from academic scientist, learning how to communicate with stakeholders in

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that environmental sense, to then learning how to communicate with shareholders in a corporate sense.” After over 30 years at Syncrude, in 2008 he became president of the OSDG following its rebranding from the Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group. Thompson’s role as OSDG president, from which he retired in 2011, took him across the continent, giving presentations in communities large and small. In 2010 alone, he gave almost 100 presentations on the oilsands, with roughly one-third of them in the United States. Thompson is an ardent defender of the industry, observing that environmentally, the best technology of the day was used at different points of its development. “[For example] when oilsands plants were initially built, people looked at tailings ponds and saw them as business the way it should be done,” he says. “These ponds were not built by people who were malicious; they were not built by people who were out of step with contemporary norms. They were approved by government as being compliant with the best-available technology. And that applied to every aspect of the plant.” Tailings are one of the most significant environmental challenges associated with the oilsands sector and are currently subject to a major technology collaboration effort within Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance. The goal of this group, supported by the Government of Alberta, is to vastly accelerate the application of new tailings technologies. But this doesn’t mean that earlier methods weren’t cutting edge for their time. Thompson points to Suncor Energy Inc.’s Tailings Pond 1, which was built in the 1960s and reclaimed to a solid surface in 2010. He says it was built to the highest geotechnical standards of the time.

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“We looked at small mammals. We looked at large mammals. We looked at vegetation. Today, you would call that a biodiversity study. Back then, we didn’t have quite so fancy a term for it, but we recognized we had to look at the impact of air emissions on land [and] the impact of forest clearing and disturbance on wildlife. We had air-monitoring stations up and running in 1979. They weren’t as sophisticated as they are today, but nonetheless, air monitoring was important. We did a lot of theoretical air-dispersion, physics-type studies to look at how we could modify plant operations to minimize impact. Water studies—the same places were sampled then as are sampled now.” Syncrude followed the standards established by both levels of government of the day. Thompson believes that public communication about environmental impacts has been important to Syncrude and the industry since its outset and notes that, early on, he was charged with communicating environmental matters to the public.

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“Ponds are there for a defined time period—40 or 50 years—but it is not forever. Tailings ponds all have reclamation plans in place. The reclamation plans deal with the water, the fine tailings, and my view of the world is that the water quality in the Athabasca River is affected by naturally occurring oilsands but is largely unaffected by the industry.” With respect to greenhouse gas emissions, this was not an issue in the 1960s and early 1970s when the fi rst oilsands development took place. Thus, the facilities were never designed with greenhouse gas emissions in mind. “They were, however, designed with energy conservation and efficiency in mind, and that had the result of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” Thompson says. “Certainly, for the original Syncrude and Suncor plants, greenhouse gases were not on the radar screen. These plants are, however, highly energy integrated. If you look at the design of Syncrude, it was such that the heat for extraction was practically all waste heat from the upgrading. A lot of the thermal energy is created using combined-cycle gas turbine generators, which means you generate electricity as a waste product as a way to lower your total carbon footprint. So, energy efficiency has always been an issue. We just didn’t frame it in terms of greenhouse gas reduction.” Thompson continues that the concentration today on greenhouse gas emissions makes good business sense. “The focus on greenhouse gas emissions has, at its roots, the need to be effective and efficient in a number of ways. Greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by improving your extraction process. Since 1990, the industry has dropped its greenhouse gas emission footprint by 26 per cent per barrel—that equates to a couple of per cent a year— which people would say that sounds like a low amount but, in fact, for technical

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improvement, two per cent per year is a pretty aggressive target in any technology, including oilsands operations.” Thompson concludes: “When you look at the carbon footprint of [the] oilsands, right now, it’s competitive with the average barrel of oil imported into the U.S. and North America. With some of these technologies coming forward, we could actually see oilsands crude becoming the crude of choice from a carbon point of view—not just because the carbon footprint of oilsands goes down, but because Mother Nature is not kind to oil everywhere else in the world. The oil everywhere else is getting harder to produce; it’s getting both heavier and it’s getting higher in sulphur content. As a result, its carbon footprint is gradually creeping up.”

Innovation, which drove the fi rst years of oilsands operations and elevated it to its current heights, continues to hold Thompson’s promising expectations of ongoing operational and environmental improvement.

This article is one of a series based on information gathered via the Petroleum History Society’s current Oil Sands Oral History Project, which is documenting the stories of oilsands pioneers in their own words. As with the society’s previous oral history projects, the transcripts and recordings will be deposited in Calgary’s Glenbow Archives. Adriana Davies is a member of the team of researchers/writers involved in the project.

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Cott Meakin likens the seriousness with which the Canadian oil and gas industry needs to be environmentally and socially responsible to how committed it is to health and safety on work sites. Meakin started his career in the industry 18 years ago working in the environment, health and safety field with Petro-Canada and others, before earning a master’s degree in environmental management and sustainable development at the University of Calgary. He is now manager of corporate responsibility with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and has seen the industry evolve in its approach to its own workers and to society overall. “When I fi rst started in the industry the culture around safety was very different,” he says, referring to a time when work-site injuries were more accepted. “Now, if you even hinted to anyone that an accident was acceptable, you’d get drummed out of the industry.” The current state of industry safety is due to societal and regulatory pressures, but also to its own better interests,

he says. Industry found that maintaining a safer and healthier working environment was not only good for its image, but for the bottom line. Similarly, Meakin says, environmental and social responsibility is now an integral part of being in business. “Industry doesn’t do these things altruistically,” he says. “It’s about the environment, the bottom line and the community.” Meakin, who joined CAPP last June, devoted much of his time to CAPP’s 2012 Responsible Canadian Energy Progress Report, which was released in late January. CAPP launched its Responsible Canadian Energy (RCE) program in 2010 as part of a commitment by CAPP members, who represent much of the Canadian oil and gas industry, to measure and report on members’ performance relating to people, air, land and water on an ongoing basis. Meakin says the report is part of a strategy by the industry to achieve continuous improvement in its performance. “Through RCE, we are endeavouring to show our stakeholders that we are

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working pragmatically and diligently to get better at what we do,” he says. Th is year’s report is 34 pages in its print version and consists of 115 web pages. “I’m really pleased with where we’re at today,” he says. Because there is a huge amount of data to gather, the annual reports are based on information gathered from industry and governments the previous year. For instance, the upcoming 2013 RCE will actually be based on 2012 data. Meakin says the most diﬃcult area to track has to do with people—the social impacts of energy development. “We recognize we need to do a better job in that area,” he says. One of the problems is that performance in that area is largely subjective. “We can look at the dollars our members are investing in communities, but need to have a conversation around those dollars. What are the positive impacts and the negative impacts?” The industry employs more than 550,000 Canadians, and governments now collect about $20 billion yearly

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in taxes and royalties as a result of oilsands development alone. While these statistics are easily gathered, it’s often diﬃcult to determine where the responsibility associated with social and economic impacts lies, he says. For instance, the need to upgrade the infamous “Highway of Death,” Highway 63 from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, was a government responsibility, but the traﬃc on the road came as a result of oilsands development. It is in the areas of measuring the industry’s impact on the physical environment, including the air, water and land, that CAPP is able to take a more defi nitive, data-backed approach, he says. Much of that data comes from governments. To industry’s impact on the air, CAPP has tapped the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI), which tracks all pollutants released into the air, water and land. Over 300 substances are listed on the NPRI, and 8,000 industrial facilities report annually on their pollutant releases and transfers to Environment Canada.

“We track the NO x [nitrogen oxide] emissions released by the fleets of large trucks operating in oilsands mines,” he says. “We need to know the potential impact of not only direct but indirect emissions.” CAPP also taps the federal and provincial governments’ records on CO2 emissions from so-called large fi nal emitters: the oilsands, coal plants and other large industries responsible for most of the greenhouse gases arising from resource development. The air quality measures show a multi-year downward movement in NOx and sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions (six per cent and nine per cent respectively), despite a huge increase in oilsands development.

Because better technologies are being used by industry to control emissions (leading to reductions in flaring and a drop in fugitive emissions), Meakin says the “emissions intensity” of industry operations has steadily declined. Absolute SO2 emissions have declined by 37 per cent since 2007, and NO x emissions have dropped for five years consecutively. In addition, although there has been significant oilsands growth, CO2 emissions have remained “flat,” he says. Meakin says he took the CAPP job because he is committed to seeing the industry improve its track record. “I think the industry is heading in the right direction, but I also recognize we need to do better,” he says.

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Quest project propels CCS forward in ALberTA

or an industry under siege by environmentalists, the announcement last September that Royal Dutch Shell plc, along with partners Chevron Corporation and Marathon Oil Corporation, was going ahead with the fi rst carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oilsands operation was heralded as a breakthrough. Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes says Shell’s decision to go ahead with the project, named Quest, “reaﬃ rms Alberta’s position as a global leader in [CCS].” Peter Voser, chief executive oﬃcer of Royal Dutch Shell, which is a majority partner in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), calls Quest the company’s “flagship project,” adding that CCS is critical “if we want to achieve climate change goals.” “Lower-CO2 energy sources will grow, but even by 2050, at least 65 per cent of our energy will still come from fossil fuels,” Voser says. “So CCS will be important to manage climate impacts.” Quest will capture CO2 from bitumen produced by the AOSP, north of Fort McMurray, and transported

to Shell’s Edmonton-area Scotford upgrader. Starting in late 2015, Quest will capture and store more than one million tonnes of CO2 per year. Quest will reduce direct emissions from the upgrader by up to 35 per cent, which is the equivalent of taking 175,000 cars off the road annually. The CO2 will be transported by an 80-kilometre underground pipeline to a storage site north of the Scotford plant, where it will be injected more than two kilometres underground into a porous rock formation called the Basal Cambrian Sands. John Abbott, Shell’s executive vice-president of heavy oil, says the CO2 could be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the future, “but it would be the subject of other commercial discussions.” Abbott also suggests the project could be the fi rst of others to follow. “Quest is important because it is a fully integrated project that will demonstrate existing capture, transportation, injection and storage technologies working together for the safe and permanent storage of CO2,” Abbott says.

alberta’s first carbon and capture storage project, Quest, will operate out of shell’s scotford Upgrader (pictured here) in alberta’s industrial Heartland.

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“The knowledge it provides will help to enable much wider and more costeffective application of CCS through the energy industry and other sectors in years to come.” Construction is now underway on the project, which will employ an average of 400 construction workers, peaking at about 700. Quest should be operational by 2015. The federal and provincial governments contributed a total of $865 million to the fi nancing of the $1.35-billion project, including $755 million from the Alberta government’s Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund (CCEMF). CCS is a key element of the provincial government’s strategy to fight climate change, with CCS accounting for 70 per cent of its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 200 megatonnes by 2050. Under that plan, large fi nal emitters (those emitting more than 100,000 tonnes per year) must reduce their emissions intensity from their facilities by 12 per cent. They can do so by making cuts to emissions from their plants, by buying Alberta-based emissions offsets or by paying into the CCEMF (at $15 per tonne). Aside from the Quest project, the capture and storage fund has committed $495 million to Enhance Energy Inc.’s planned $1.2-billion Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, a 240-kilometre pipeline that will transport CO2 gathered from the Agrium Inc. Redwater fertilizer plant near Edmonton and the new Sturgeon Refi nery (on which construction will soon start) to be used for EOR.

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ANADA’s fi rst enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project using CO2 is entering a new era with a recent announcement that it will tap its CO2 from a new Canadian source. Cenovus Energy Inc.’s WeyburnMidale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, which has been operating since 2000, will access CO2 from the newly built Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project near Estevan, Sask. The $1.24-billion SaskPower project is estimated to remove one million tonnes of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere per year, and will produce 110 megawatts of power, once it is operational in 2014. Cenovus and SaskPower announced the 10-year agreement for the oil company to buy about 57 million cubic feet per day of CO2 from Boundary Dam in December 2012. It is the world’s first coal-fired integrated CCS project. Cenovus media relations adviser Jessica Wilkinson says there will be no interruption of supply from the current supplier, the Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota, which provides 5,500 tonnes per day of CO2. The Boundary Dam volumes will be in addition to that CO2. No terms of the deal with SaskPower have been revealed, but Cenovus has announced plans for a 70-kilometre pipeline to transport the CO2 from Estevan to Weyburn, Sask. The Weyburn-Midale project, in which 24 different research and consulting organizations have been involved, has been praised as a pioneer of CO2-based EOR, seen as having the potential to substantially reduce the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. A study released

about five years ago showed application of the technology would lead to the recovery of 130 million barrels of oil over the next 15 years, while the injected CO2 would remain underground for 5,000 years.

consumption has grown dramatically, excess quantities of CO2 have been produced and are seen as a major factor in global warming. The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, where most of

Cenovus Energy inc.’s Weyburn-midale Co2 monitoring and storage Project will access Co2 from the newly built Boundary Dam integrated Carbon Capture and storage Project once it is operational.

Wilkinson says Cenovus won’t actively seek other sources of CO2, but would consider one if provided the opportunity. Apache Canada Ltd. and several partners also operate a CO2 EOR project in the area, which also taps the North Dakota plant’s output. It expected to recover an additional 65 million barrels of oil from its existing Midale project, where there’s an estimated 515 million barrels of oil in place. CO2 is an essential ingredient in the atmosphere, keeping the world warm enough to sustain life. However, during the last century, as fossil fuel

Canada’s oil and gas is produced, could be used to sequester all of the CO2 emitted now, with an ultimate potential to store 120,000 megatonnes (according to the Carbon Capture and Storage Roadmap, produced by Natural Resources Canada about five years ago). The Alberta government announced in 2008 it wants to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the province by 200 megatonnes by 2050, with CCS projects providing 70 per cent of its planned GHG emissions cuts. Total GHG emissions are now at about 240 megatonnes per year.

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“green completions” emissionsreduction technology must be used. After January 2015, all new fractured wells will be required to use green completions. Questor Technology Inc., a Calgary-based company that designs and manufactures high-eﬃciency waste-gas incinerators used worldwide to destroy noxious or toxic hydrocarbons, has seen increasing demand from its U.S. customers for green completions technologies. “In the past, we’ve done a lot of work on the processing side, but we’ve started to work on the drilling side for some major clients,” says Audrey Mascarenhas, Questor’s president and chief executive oﬃcer. “In fact, half of our incinerator rental fleet in the U.S. is driven by shale gas drilling.” There are just two companies that can meet the new rules in the United States and Questor, with its unique and patented process, is one of them. “Burning waste gas with incineration isn’t new,” Mascarenhas says. “But

we’re doing it quite differently from everybody else.” Questor’s incinerators take the produced gas at the wellsite and create a vortex using the pressure in the gas. One of the reasons the equipment works so well—at 99.9 per cent efficiency—is that it’s able to handle both rich and lean gas, and can take both high and low pressures into the unit, which flares can’t do. Some states still allow flaring, but they’ve also set some tough requirements for the levels of acceptable emissions. But it’s difficult to measure emissions from flares, Mascarenhas says, which makes it even tougher for flares to meet emissions targets. Benzene, for example, is a known volatile organic hydrocarbon, but it can only be destroyed in a system that is 98 per cent efficient or better, and that efficiency level has to be auditable. “In Alberta,” says Mascarenhas, “our rule is you can emit up to one tonne of benzene, but that’s your limit.” Questor’s incinerators provide the technology to take that to zero, she says. “When you look at the impact on air quality, knowing that benzene is a known carcinogen, I don’t believe we should be putting it into the atmosphere. Especially when you’ve got a nice alternative.” Photo: achiM Prill /Photos.coM

N April 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fi nalized standards to reduce air pollution associated with oil and natural gas production, including the fi rst federal emissions rules for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured. The rules require operators of newly fracked gas wells to use costeffective technologies and practices to capture natural gas that might otherwise escape the well, and which can also be sold commercially. During the fi rst phase, which continues until January 2015, emissions must be flared or the use of

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LBErtA was the fi rst jurisdiction in North America to introduce mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for all large emitters. The program includes a price on carbon, a regulated off set market and a clean-energy technology fund. Large emitters—those that emit more than 100,000 tonnes per year—must meet mandatory reduction targets. Emitters that are unable to meet the target have the option of paying $15 per tonne into the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund (CCEMF). The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) manages the CCEMF, investing in a bevy of innovative projects designed to develop carbon capture and storage technologies, to enhance energy eﬃciency and conservation, or to make energy production greener. “When Alberta devised its greenhouse gas reduction strategy in 2002, it followed up with the Climate Change and Emissions [Management Amendment] Act, which enabled further regulation and the creation of a fund,” says Kirk Andries, managing director of the not-for-profit CCEMC. “Subsequent to the act, government created the Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.” Under that 2007 regulation, the province identified 24 GHGs and specified formulas for equating them all to carbon dioxide to simplify communication. It identified categories of major sources, and it declared any facility that put out more than 100,000 tonnes of GHGs per year to be considered a large fi nal emitter.

“About 50 per cent of emissions are consumption-based, and the 50 per cent of industrial emitters [designated as] large emitters contribute about 70 per cent of all the industrial emissions,” Andries says. The province’s regulatory mechanisms target major sources. Under the Specified Gas Emitters Regulation, large industrial emitters are required to reduce their emissions intensity by 12 per cent, measured against a baseline established in 2005. “Every calendar year, the emitters have to submit how much they emitted by the end of December. They have until the end of March [to match the Alberta government’s fiscal year] to submit how they intend to comply,” Andries says. These targeted emitters have three compliance options they can apply in any combination: 1 They can continuously improve to meet targets; 2 They can buy tonnage in the offset market established by the Alberta government; and 3 They can pay the $15-per-tonne levy. Each year, there are 100 or more facilities that cannot streamline their processes enough to meet the 12 per cent goal, nor can they fi nd enough offset tonnage in the market to compensate for their excess emissions, so they end up paying the levy. There are currently 133 projects registered in the offset market to sell tonnage. The Alberta Emissions Offset System - Approved Quantification Protocols and Guidance documentation identifies

these offset credit sellers as individuals or companies that have a project in Alberta to reduce or remove GHG emissions. The projects must be using a process that is not otherwise required by law, that is over and above usual sector practices, and that quantifies emission reductions and/or removals according to an approved protocol. Project developers have to meet the ISO 14064-2 standard—developed through the International Organization for Standardization— for the quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification of project and entity-level GHGs. In order to be approved and registered, the proposed projects have to result in real, quantifi able emission reductions or removals, which Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development verifies by audit. Approval is periodically reassessed and registration can be revoked. Registered projects include anaerobic and aerobic composting facilities, programs changing how the inputs and outputs for cows and hogs are managed, no-till or reduced-till agricultural practices, and acid-gas injection projects. Together, the approved projects account for a registered total of just short of 26 million tonnes of CO2equivalent emissions reduction. The large emitters that choose to take the third option have been paying approximately $65 million to $80 million per year into the Alberta government’s CCEMF.

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LL of the regulatory systems that govern air quality in Alberta fit together like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle culminating in the national Air Quality Management System. The most stringent standard for any pollutant in a given area governs. Hamid Namsechi, section head of air policy for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, emphasizes that the Air Quality Management System is a collaborative effort of all provinces with federal government; however, “the national program looked at Alberta for some of the templates to design and build the national program,” he says. “We have more than 40 years’ experience in managing air. Our industrial base is quite advanced.” In the federal plan, the concept of air zones, which divides all provinces and territories into areas of management for air quality, borrows heavily from Alberta’s concept of airsheds. The plan sets Canadian ambient air quality standards for sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), fine particulate matter and ozone, and it establishes base-level industrial emissions requirements to control emissions from industrial sectors across the country. “In Alberta, we tend to be better than these air quality standards for most industries and areas of the province,” adds Bob Myrick, senior manager for air policy at Alberta Environment. “In regards to emission controls, frameworks and policies, we are leading the country. “We have set standards in the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan

(LARP) air quality framework for sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide that look at levels that could harm the environment or human health, then we have set levels more stringent than those [to] give us early indicators.” If those early indicator levels are reached, action must be taken to improve air quality. “In Alberta, we are the fi rst to implement this type of framework,” Myrick says. “Our innovation is the early warning signs. The national system has now adopted this type of framework, so you’ll never see levels that could harm the environment or human health. That’s the intention.” The Lower Athabasca Region’s growing population and status as a major and accelerating economic driver for Canada made it the priority for introducing the cumulative impacts management protection the province is adopting. The region was already the most closely monitored part of the province. Two airshed management zones cover most of it: the Wood Buffalo Environmental Association and the Lakeland Industry & Community Association. The air quality management section of LARP recognizes the variability and diversity of air quality throughout the 93,216-square-kilometre area. Monitoring air quality in smaller local zones allows for a quicker response to prevent ambient air quality concerns from spreading. The monitoring system measures not just emissions releases, but how emissions disperse. “You can expect

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to see more monitoring and more vigilance, and we’ll get ahead of any issues that might be out there,” Namsechi says. “We won’t wait until a situation has developed and then react. There’s going to be quicker action to get all the stakeholders together and manage [any event or trend] before it becomes news headlines. “[Advancing] technology will allow us to manage emissions while delivering the services we need. As we get the step-change in technology, you’ll see [reduced] emissions.” Myrick says despite the expanding industrial operations, air quality in Fort McMurray is better than it was two decades ago because stringent emissions controls on automobiles and removing lead from gasoline have markedly reduced carbon monoxide and NO2 concentrations. LARP’s specifics complement those in Clearing the Air: Alberta’s Renewed Clean Air Strategy 2012, an update of the initial 1991 strategy. “The focus back then was more on dealing with industrial point sources,” Namsechi says. “To have industry and government deal with issues in a collaborative instead of confrontational manner. Now we have more focus on non-point sources, dealing with [pollution] not totally covered by the fi rst strategy.” While industrial emissions are managed by regulations, personal behaviour is better addressed through education, he says. “Trying to change behaviour takes time and effort, but the benefit is you get to breathe cleaner air, which benefits everybody.”

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N Alberta organization has launched a global search for inventors with $35 million in its pocket to fund the development of technologies that will capture the carbon from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and create something useful out of it. Kirk Andries, managing director of the not-for-profit Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) explains, “We want to fi nd the right technologies, then invest in their continued development.” While the technology developers can be from anywhere, the technologies must be applicable in Alberta. The idea is to create a market here for carbon use, since the supply will continue to grow in step with energy demand and hydrocarbon-based energy production. Like using food waste to form compost that will nourish the next crop, waste carbon molecules could be used to create girders for bridges or frames for mass transit vehicles or who knows what else. Carbon fibre is tougher than steel, but lighter. Looking at waste as an opportunity is a 180-degree shift in thinking for an organization that so far has focused on funding technologies that either reduce GHG emissions or support adaptation to climate change, Andries says. “We need to look at greenhouse gas as an asset we’re producing and look at how to convert it into a product,” Andries says in describing the CCEMC Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses launched in February. Although technology developers are asked to register now, they have until mid-July to submit a four-page description of their idea at

ccemcgrandchallenge.com. The idea can be at any stage of development, but must be rooted in solid science. CCEMC will sift through what is expected to be many hundreds of ideas and ask about 100 applicants to submit a full proposal. From those, 20 potential diamonds will be chosen next February. The applicants will participate in a conference in

there will be one winner who will receive $10 million to go towards the commercialization of the business,” Andries says. Th is is not the Olympics, though, where whoever doesn’t win loses. “We see it as an ecosystem that will support each of those 20 to continue to be developed. We want to make sure there are other organizations in

March, likely in Calgary, where they’ll rub shoulders with Alberta’s innovation community and forge links with mentors, business developers, venture capitalists and potential partners. “With open innovation, you end up with a bunch of disciplines coming at an idea and working together,” Andries says. “They’ll meet at something like this conference and connect their technologies. Out of that comes major innovation.” Those 20 will each receive half a million dollars to spend two years developing their technologies to the next level. “Then we’ll pick the top five, give each $3 million and, out of the five,

Alberta that will want to work with them to build out that technology. These initiatives will mature at different rates.” “Existing technologies may make incremental changes, but we need game changers,” Andries says. “We invest in creative thinking that could lead to very substantial emission reductions. “We need to have a fair number of balls in the air. It’s silver buckshot, not a silver bullet. Some of them will be successful and some won’t be.” For more information on the CCEMC Grand Challenge, visit ccemc.ca.

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Company’s rig systems are not only good for the environment, but also for bottom lines

n average, more than five to 15 gallons of drilling fluid are typically lost during drilling operations, which totals more than 5,000 gallons per well. These spills not only contaminate the ground or ocean beneath the operation, but also create hazardous conditions on the rig and waste expensive fluids that could otherwise be reused for production. Having worked on drilling rigs, Quinn Holtby, president and chief executive officer of Katch Kan Ltd., has witnessed first-hand the effect of these spills. He has spent almost 30 years not just managing these spills with remediation and drilling fluid advances, as the industry currently does, but also working to prevent them from occurring in the first place. “With greater awareness and utilization of prevention and zero-spill technologies, the industry will be able to significantly mitigate safety issues and reduce the environmental footprint of their operations,” Holtby says. Safety and environment are Katch Kan’s two main priorities. The company’s tag line, “We Protect Lives & The Environment,” is embodied by its land and offshore drilling systems: the Zero Spill System and the Rig Safety System. The Zero Spill System does exactly what it says—prevents fluids from spilling onto the rotary table during drilling operations, thereby preventing the chemically laden liquid from making it onto the ground

below. The system also removes the need for fishing for dropped tools or equipment, reducing the risk to rig workers. A byproduct of the system is that the recovered fluids can be reused, preventing waste and improving the bottom line. The Rig Safety System utilizes several of the company’s products, including the Tong Handle Guard (for reducing hand-crush injuries), the Splash Guard (for keeping feet out of the rotary table) and the Katch Mat (an anti-slip containment mat that prevents slips and colourcodes areas on the rig that are unsafe). The system also employs fluid catching techniques that allow the company to reuse lost drilling fluids. Together, these products create a safer, more efficient drilling rig that actually saves the company money, while protecting lives and the environment. These, as well as Katch Kan’s other systems for on- and offshore rigs, demonstrate the four R’s: reduce, reuse, recover and recycle. Since its first system was installed in 1994, the company has focused on providing technology that makes environmental sustainability effective, affordable and easy to use for contractors and operators. “Oil and gas operators and drilling contractors should be able to earn a profit while saving lives and the environment; it is not only possible—it should be the natural progression,” Holtby says. “Operating companies today recognize the benefits of providing a safer

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work environment and minimizing the environmental impact,” he adds. “However, in many cases, safety and environmental performance can hit a ceiling without a fundamental change in the fit, form or function of the traditional rotary drilling operation.” With the help of Katch Kan’s systems, the industry is showing some progression—the company’s products are now being used in 64 countries around the world. Its goal is to eventually have its products used on every rig, everywhere. To serve this international customer base, the Edmonton-based company employs over 100 people in 61 countries and offers training in different languages. The company also encourages its employees to offer ideas for continuous improvement, whether for product design or office procedures. “The heart of Katch Kan is innovation,” Holtby says. “Our employees live and breathe innovation.”

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Toward a greener FrAC By da n I eL a t r n K a

LtHoUGH the practice of hydraulic fracturing has been evolving since it was fi rst introduced in North America in the late 1940s, current interest in greener frac fluids is accelerating the evolution today. Along with more environmentally friendly fluids, industry is also sharpening its approach toward evaluating formations in order to apply the most effective frac fluid technologies to optimize productivity. Murray Reynolds, director of technical services at Ferus Inc., advocates frac optimization, and applying technology and engineered frac fluid systems to reduce costs and water usage, as well as to increase well productivity. “We started out with gelled diesel, kerosenes, gelled gasoline, napalm in the early days, polymer cross-linked fluids in the early ’60s, which are still used today. Then a lot of foam systems were developed in the late ’90s, and then slick water became popular as a greener fluid in that there were not a lot of chemicals in it, but the issue with slick water is that you may be having to use fresh water,” he says, noting that the use of fresh water for fracs is becoming a major issue. “Rather than the brute-force manufacturing process of applying as much horsepower and water as possible, let’s do a little more work and do some engineering upfront to get more production with lessscarce resources,” Reynolds says. Nitrogen- or CO2-based foam systems at “80 quality” (20 per cent water) make good alternatives to using 100 per cent water-based systems because they are the most technically versatile fluid systems, minimize water on the formation, can use either polymer or surfactant gels, leave low residue, are easy and quick

to clean up, and use conventional sand blenders with no limits to the job size. “A lot of people argue that carbon dioxide and nitrogen products are expensive. But if they can improve your productivity by five per cent, that will more than pay out the extra costs,” he says.

nO COOKie-CUTTer SOLUTiOnS Reynolds feels that industry has started to take an assembly-line approach to resource plays rather than trying to optimize the wells upfront and then doing look-back studies to evaluate the performance of the wells. “We need to look at the reservoir conditions, the sensitivities, the conductivity needs and the net present value for our choice of frac fluids, and slick water is being misapplied to many reservoirs,” he says. Beyond the industry-standard slick water frac, substantial research is underway into new frac fluid systems, ranging from new cellular-based polymer systems and high-temperature viscoelastic surfactant fluids to stabilize foams under higher temperatures; to produced-water systems that are tolerant to impurities; gelled hydrocarbon frac fluids; foamed CO2 with complex nanofluid technology; and “slick CO2” for thermally induced fracturing effects in shale formations. Dale Dusterhoft, chief executive oﬃcer of Trican Well Service Ltd., agrees that frac fluid systems are evolving. “Overall, the evolution is that companies are looking and fi nding out that not all rock is the same, not every shale is like the Barnett shale, so they’ll get into the Eagle Ford or the Niobrara, and they fi nd out that what they’re doing in the Barnett is

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not necessarily working, so there’s an evolution towards more technology rather than less,” he explains. The result is that frac fluids and even frac systems are evolving almost at the play level, with more complex, engineered and technology-driven systems being developed specifically to deal with what is prominent in each area. In addition to understanding the rock, Dwight Bobier, senior vice-president, technical services, at Calfrac Well Services Ltd., says the basics of applying the frac fluid to the formation still hold true, and that a frac job is dependent on the whole system working, not just its individual components. “The design of the frac treatment, the design of the proppant that you’re going to use, the sand schedule that goes with that, the rate at which you can work within the confines of the pipe pressure and the well configuration—it’s all a multi-faceted approach and requires varied training and expertise that has to all come together before you can come up with a suitable frac treatment, and then you’re always trying to optimize from that point on, trying to learn from what you’ve done to get better.”

MOVe TO SHALe OiL bringS MOre CHAnge In addition to optimizing fracs through the use of more complex fluids, the move to oil and natural gas liquids production from dry gas is also driving technological change. Greener frac fluids are a big part of the evolution—both reducing the amount of regulated materials used and finding substitutes for the regulated materials. Sourcing materials that are non-regulated, even biodegradable, to do the job of regulated materials has

“It’s a very good, clean system to run and we can pattern it after the well type we’re dealing with, whether it be for low- or mid-temperature applications,” says James Venditto, vice-president of technical services at Trican. Trican’s research and development teams use toxicity testing to develop cleaner systems and have successfully done so with its EcoClean line.

Drier iS beTTer Going straight to powder-type chemistries is another effort Trican is engaging in, moving to what it calls “dry on the f ly” types of systems like dry gels and dry friction reducers, and away from mineral oils and surfactants. It’s also trying to get into some basic chemistries by moving away from some of the mineral-type systems that have been run in the past. “So there’s a lot of development going on looking at the use of a substrate and putting dry materials on substrates

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been an ongoing initiative for quite a long time in the industry as it continues to develop greener formulations and blends. And virtually every fluids provider has its own take on just what constitutes a green frac fluid. Halliburton, for example, recently rolled out its CleanSuite systems for hydraulic fracturing, which are applicable to both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. “CleanStim fluid [part of the CleanSuite product line] has been used in vertical and horizontal wells, in wells with bottomhole static temperatures ranging from 100 to 340 degrees Fahrenheit, in sandstone and shale formations, and for both gasand oil-bearing formations,” says John Gorman, vice-president of Canadian operations at Halliburton. Trican continues to develop and expand its line of EcoClean products, which includes additives that are non-toxic, biodegradable and non-bioaccumulating.

and going straight to powdered-type chemistries,” Venditto says. “We get back to the basics, so we’re running guar gum, for example, as one of the fracturing fluid additives, as a thickener,” Trican’s Dusterhoft adds. “Guar is actually used in food products, but when we put it in a liquid form we have to carry it in some way, and so we put mineral oil in there, which is not toxic but it’s still something that we want to get out of there. By getting back to dry form environmentally, it just simplifies it to just using the basic raw product, which is really benign.” The advantages of dry on the fly, explains Dusterhoft, are that “it’s easier to move around and you’re not having to worry about chemicals in totes. And there’s an advantage to that because a lot of materials come in dry form and you’re bringing them in in dry form, then adding liquids to them, and it all adds costs. So the more you can move towards a simpler, drier system, the better off you are from an environmental standpoint.”

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UNDErstANDING FrAC FLUIDs Fracturing fluids are liquids or gases that convey pressure from the surface into the reservoir to enable fractures to be created. Fracturing fluid allows transportation of proppant and chemicals into the reservoir. the choice of hydraulic fracturing fluid is dependent on the properties within the reservoir. types of fracture fluids commonly used are water, liquids or gases such as co2, nitrogen, propane and oil-based fluids. water is the most common base fluid used in hydraulic fracturing due primarily to the low cost and availability.

to make fluids suitable for hydraulic fracturing, chemicals are commonly added to create a highly viscous low-friction fluid that will withstand the rigours of travelling to the zone of interest, readily carry the proppant material into the fractures and ultimately return to surface. all chemicals used in the process must comply with provincial and federal regulations. the number of chemicals and concentrations added to the fluid-proppant mixture is highly variable and dependent on the specific properties of the reservoir. source: Canadian society for Unconventional resources

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Closing the tap FOr FrACKing

ArLY in the shale gas revolution, when the immensity of the resource was heralded as ushering in a new age of energy production, a few savvy pundits foresaw that water usage could become a pinch point in its development. A half-decade later, with a dozen shale gas basins across North America producing, and horizontal multi-frac technology now tapping tight oil and liquids-rich tight gas plays, the public outcry over the industry’s water use is a reality. Pumping millions of barrels of water per well into the ground over the course of a few days is impressive from a technical perspective, but removing fresh water from the ecosystem and dumping the resulting produced water into deep disposal wells isn’t sustainable. So the oil and gas industry has developed a number of strategies to reduce freshwater consumption,

including smarter ways of fracking, replacing fresh water with nonpotable water sources, developing waterless alternatives for cracking rock and engaging stakeholders to cooperatively develop watermanagement strategies.

PACe OF CHAnge In rural communities rooted in agricultural production, water issues rise to the top of the list of complaints. Unfortunately, the best water-management practices aren’t cheap, and resource-play economics can get in the way, especially when chasing gas at a time when prices are in the ditch. In this equation, water supply options, produced water disposal costs, the type of formation and corporate culture all factor in when producers consider their water options. A poster child for responsible frac water stewardship is Shell Canada Limited in northeastern British

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Columbia. Despite the region’s abundance of clean water, Shell opted for non-potable water sources and recycling at its Montney Groundbirch tight gas field. The company even took the innovative step of reclaiming the City of Dawson Creek’s municipal waste water for use in its fracking operations. Initially, Shell drew its water from rivers and purchased water collected in dugouts from farmers. The decision to reclaim municipal waste water, which would otherwise be released into Dawson Creek, was driven by social, economic and environmental considerations. Speaking at a Calgary forum on shale gas and tight oil water management last spring, Shawn Baxter, Shell Canada’s water project manager for northeastern British Columbia, said that using municipal waste water also reduces Shell’s exposure to future regulatory changes and provides a

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steady supply of frac water during water shortages. A unique 10-year agreement with the city provides the producer a minimum of 4,000 cubic metres per day of reclaimed municipal water for its Groundbirch tight gas play, which is currently producing more than 200 million cubic feet of gas per day from about 230 wells. Shell typically requires between 6,000 and 10,000 cubic metres of

Pumping millions of barrels of water per well into the ground over the course of a few days is impressive from a technical perspective, but removing fresh water from the ecosystem and dumping the resulting produced water into deep disposal wells isn’t sustainable.

the long term. Shell says it currently recycles more than 90 per cent of its frac flow-back water. Apart from reclaiming municipal waste water, Shell is also reducing development impacts by piping, rather than trucking, the water to storage facilities near its operations. Th is means area residents are exposed to less traﬃc, noise and dust. “One of the real benefits [of this strategy] is taking trucks off the road,” Baxter says. “Talk to any landowner in our Groundbirch field—that’s one of their number one concerns.” Other producers using nonpotable sources of water are Encana Corporation and Apache Canada Ltd., which partnered in 2007 to develop their Horn River assets using a fi rst-of-its-kind saline water treatment facility to support shale gas fracturing. Tapping the non-potable Debolt aquifer in the Horn River Basin addressed the partners’ three shale gas development needs: a sustainable source of water with a reduced environmental footprint, certainty of water supply at their resource play hub and a more economic source of water than pumping surface water.

inVenTiOn iS KeY water per well at Groundbirch. About 30–40 per cent of the frac water flows back to the surface during the fi rst few months of production and much of the rest is recovered slowly over

These are still the early days of resource play development and invention still plays a key role in its evolution. Companies like Albertabased N.E.X.T. Legacy Technologies

Inc. claim to have invented “a revolutionary product that effectively fractures oil and gas reservoirs in a most environmentally sensitive way” using no water. Time will tell if these products deliver on their promises, but perhaps a more reliable approach is incremental improvement to existing hydraulic frac technology to reduce water consumption. This approach can be summed up as replacing brute force with finesse, as outlined by Schlumberger Limited’s chief executive officer Paal Kibsgaard at the 40th annual Howard Weil Energy Conference in New Orleans. “We see hydraulic fracturing... moving away from the current approach of trying to achieve more production with more resources, towards achieving more production with less resources,” Kibsgaard said. “Th is will be essential to lower well costs and to reduce the operational footprint.” He outlined three wasteful practices that need to be eliminated: drilling in areas of shale plays with poor production potential and subsequently poor production results; completing wells along their entire lengths even though significant parts of the horizontal section are in zones with little production potential; and applying excessive horsepower and water in “massive frac” jobs, creating fracture networks much deeper than can be propped open and where

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the unpropped part of the network makes little or no contribution to production. Kibsgaard foresees fracturing making better use of seismic technology and computer-aided reservoir modelling to focus on the parts of the formation with the most production potential. Schlumberger and other oilfield service companies are already heading down this road. Last year, Schlumberger introduced a process called HiWAY flow-channel hydraulic fracturing, which uses 40 per cent less proppant and 25 per cent less water than conventional frac treatments. Calgary-based Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently launched a system that can frac up to 60 stages along a horizontal well, creating shallower but more effective fracture networks. Houston-based NCS Energy Services, Inc. markets a product called the Multistage Unlimited

technology, which runs frac ports into a well with the liner or casing string and opens those ports with coiled tubing in the hole, delivering greater flexibility for multistage completions. “There is no practical limit to the number or spacing of stages,” says Eric Schmelzl, NCS’s strategic business manager. “With our system, you have coil in the hole so you can circulate new fluids to the bottom. While you’re pumping down into the hole, you’re taking returns up the annulus. That way water is not wasted.” Each of these technologies has their limitations, but they are concrete steps on the road to greater efficiencies in the use of tight gas and tight oil resources.

MeASUreMenT It’s often said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” By this standard, shale gas and tight oil

water management is still shooting in the dark because tracking and reporting frac water use only became a requirement in 2012 in western Canada. In 2010, producer members of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers started to voluntarily report frac water recycling before it became mandatory in 2012. And while 2012 numbers are unavailable, the 2011 data shows producers reported recycling only about five per cent of water in their projects, up from four percent in 2010. When more recent numbers do come out, one interesting ratio, however, will be missing: the ratio of water used to energy produced. Because water consumption is front-loaded in resource play drilling and completions while ultimate well resource recovery is anything but certain in these new plays, providing such a ratio is fraught with uncertainty.

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COLD LAKe eVOLUTiOn means same production with less water By J I M B en t eI n

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N the late 1970s, the concerns of local residents about Imperial Oil Limited’s plans to use fresh water from Cold Lake in Alberta to provide the massive amounts of steam that would be needed for the company’s massive Cold Lake Project nearly led to the premature death of the multi-billion dollar oilsands plant. Those local concerns led to a months-long hearing held by the Energy Resources Conservation Board that resulted in a pledge from Imperial to recycle its water and to tap groundwater. Now, over 30 years later, the company is experimenting with a technology it says would mean Cold Lake would never again need to be tapped to produce bitumen at the plant. “We think this is a game-changing technology that has the potential to eliminate the need for water,” says Imperial spokesperson Pius Rolheiser of the company’s cyclic solvent process (CSP). Its solvent-assisted steam assisted gravity drainage (SA-SAGD) process would also greatly reduce water consumption.

SA-SAGD and CSP are the latest in an alphabet soup of technologies that Imperial, Canada’s largest integrated oil and gas company, has pioneered and patented, using Cold Lake as a testing ground. Imperial developed and patented cyclic steam stimulation (CSS), which it now uses to produce about 160,000 barrels per day from the Clearwater formation at Cold Lake, as well as SAGD, which is the technology used most widely by developers of in situ oilsands formations (where bitumen is too deeply buried to use mining techniques). The newest technologies it is testing are focused on increasing bitumen production by injecting solvents into the reservoirs with the potential of virtually eliminating water and significantly reducing the use of natural gas to produce steam. Imperial holds two water licences for Cold Lake, where phased development started in the 1980s after the original megaproject was shelved (ironically, not because of concerns about water, but after

delays caused by the National Energy Program and low oil prices). It can withdraw 14,000 cubic metres of water per day from Cold Lake, and it has a licence to withdraw 8,000 cubic metres of groundwater daily from the Empress aquifer. “But we typically never withdraw that much,” says Rolheiser, referring in particular to its freshwater use from Cold Lake. “Our advances in the use of brackish [groundwater] and in treating and recycling our produced water have allowed us to significantly reduce our freshwater use.” Imperial now recycles about 95 per cent of its produced water and has steadily made progress in reducing water consumption to produce bitumen at Cold Lake. When it was originally launched in the late 1970s, Cold Lake needed three cubic metres of water to produce each cubic metre of bitumen, but now uses just 0.5 cubic metres of water for each cubic metre of bitumen produced. If CSP and SA-SAGD work the way the company thinks they will its water use will plunge overall.

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But using the solvent-based technology will mean the same level of production—and likely more—can be maintained without using steam. “Another upside is that greenhouse gas emissions will be cut significantly,” he says. The field test of CSP, which Imperial has been experimenting with at the lab level since 1993, will begin later this year. The SA-SAGD technology involves the addition of propane to the steam that is injected into two SAGD well pairs. It would be applied to the Grand Rapids formation, which is shallower than Clearwater at 300–350 metres deep. (Clearwater is 450 metres deep.) SA-SAGD has been tested at Cold Lake since 2010.

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Imperial oil Limited is using technologies that will dramatically reduce water and energy consumption at other projects as well, says company spokesman, Pius rolheiser. rolheiser says the company is doing extensive laboratory testing of a non-aqueous extraction, solvent-based process that would revolutionize the mining sector. “our solvent-based process would eliminate water use and eliminate wet tailings,” he says. “we’re very excited about that.” the technology, developed by Imperial oil scientists and researchers with the centre for oil Sands Innovation at the university of alberta, would lead to substantially reduced greenhouse gas emissions because less energy would be needed to separate bitumen from oilsands. “In addition, because the process would lead to dry tailings, it would eliminate the need for tailings ponds,” he says. Imperial, which will most likely test the technology at its Kearl oilsands mine, spent $12.9 billion to develop the first phase, designed to produce about 110,000 barrels

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Last spring, Imperial’s then– president and chief executive oﬃcer Bruce March talked about the potential for the company to develop a series of 35,000-barrel-per-day projects from that formation. Rolheiser says commercial development of the Grand Rapids formation is “years off,” but when it is developed, the company would likely deploy SA-SAGD, which would be another game-changing approach that would consume minimal volumes of water and gas. Meanwhile, development of the Grand Rapids formation could eventually amount to “another Cold Lake Project” within the company’s 780,000-square-kilometre lease area by the next decade.

per day. It plans to eventually produce 345,000 barrels per day. Imperial owns 71 per cent of the project, along with 29 per cent partner exxon Mobil corporation. rolheiser says Imperial has already taken measures to reduce water consumption at Kearl by building a water storage reservoir there, which allows it to take advantage of maximum spring and summer flows in the athabasca river, with the capacity to store water for 90 days. It then reduces its withdrawals in the winter, when flows are limited. this will lead to substantial reductions in water use. “also, we’re using some of the water treatment methods we developed at cold Lake [alta.] to maximize our use of produced water,” he says. “we’ve learned a great deal about water use and recycling at cold Lake.” Imperial has another lease in the athabasca oilsands region where it envisions using another of its gamechanging technologies, aimed at reducing water and gas use. It believes its aspen lease, located about 30 kilometres from the Kearl mine, would be amenable to steam assisted gravity drainage (SaGd) technology, since the formation is buried deep enough to allow for SaGd. It would likely utilize the solvent-assisted SaGd approach it plans to test at its cold Lake project site. while it wouldn’t eliminate water use, it would greatly reduce it.

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Imperial is spending $100 million on a three-well pilot project that will test the use of heated solvent to produce bitumen from the Clearwater formation, where it has used CSS for decades because the shales within the Clearwater sands impede the use of SAGD, which is a newer generation technology. It received $10 million in funding from the Alberta government’s Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation to help fund the pilot. “CSP would virtually eliminate the use of water and would significantly reduce our natural gas consumption,” says Rolheiser. Since the existing process requires that the water is heated to 300 degrees Celsius in its existing process, a great deal of gas and energy are consumed.

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POPULAriTY OF brACKiSH WATer For stEAM GENErAtIoN in SAGD projects is increasing By da n I eL a t r n K a

HE fi rst phase of Devon Canada Corporation’s Jackfish oilsands plant was the fi rst steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operation designed and built to use 100 per cent brackish water for its steam generation. Having come on to production in 2007 with the ability to produce 35,000 barrels of thermal heavy oil per day without using any fresh water, the company maintains it was the right thing to do. Driven at the beginning by both stakeholder sentiment towards the conservation of fresh water in Alberta and Alberta’s water conservation and allocation policies requiring all in situ operators to reduce their use of fresh water sources where possible, Devon was able to commit to using brackish source water because of the company’s investment in advanced water treatment technology and because of the availability of brackish groundwater aquifers on location. Since 2007, Jackfish has expanded to include a second producing phase, and will be starting up Phase 3 by the end of 2014. Each phase is essentially a duplicate of the previous one, designed to produce 35,000 barrels of heavy oil per day at peak capacity. In addition to 35 well pairs placed on five well pads at each of Jackfish Phases 1 and 2, six brackish water source wells have also been drilled. While discovering and tapping into brackish water aquifers on site saves the costs of sourcing and transporting water from other sources, the use of

brackish water to generate steam for SAGD is not without additional considerations. Brackish water use requires complex water treatment process equipment and the technical ability to desalinate and convert the brackish water into a high-quality steam. It also requires enhanced waste management

On an intensity basis, freshwater use has decreased since 2009, from 0.43 to 0.36 barrels of fresh water withdrawn per barrel of production for oilsands in situ operations.

solutions for the disposal of the concentrated salty waste water. But perhaps even more fundamentally, the brackish water aquifer must be adequate in size, otherwise a switch to other makeup water sources may be required. Brackish groundwater currently goes largely unmonitored and withdrawals are unaccounted for, posing some uncertainty around the recharge rates of the aquifers and their longterm availability. Brackish water is

classified in Alberta as containing more than 4,000 milligrams per litre of total dissolved solids, and is considered unsafe for consumption or agricultural purposes. While in September 2012, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development placed into effect the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, which includes a groundwater management framework specifying groundwater monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements, brackish groundwater falls outside the jurisdiction of the new framework. Tracking only freshwater use and not brackish water use, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, in its 2012 Responsible Canadian Energy progress report, reported that in 2011 fresh water as a percentage of total water withdrawal for oilsands in situ operations was 51 per cent, up from 49 per cent in 2010 and 50 per cent in 2009. However, on an intensity basis, freshwater use has decreased since 2009, from 0.43 to 0.36 barrels of freshwater withdrawn per barrel of production for oilsands in situ operations. The freshwater intensity reduction does reflect increased brackish water use as source water in newer SAGD operations, where possible, and further reductions can be expected in the future from new water minimization and production optimization technologies such as blowdown steam generators and solvent-aided recovery, both of which Devon is also exploring.

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Cenovus finds a way to make more steam AnD LeSS WASTe

UNNING process equipment off spec in a brackish water treatment plant can lead to serious and costly repercussions. Thankfully for Cenovus Energy Inc., things worked out surprisingly well when it decided to try running dirty blowdown water through a second boiler, instead of disposing of it as usual. Not only did it generate extra steam without increasing the total water intake or using additional chemicals to treat the waste water, but it also reduced the amount of waste water headed for actual disposal. “The second blowdown boiler is still a conventional steam generator,” says Susan Sun, Cenovus senior staff water

treatment engineer, who worked on the process. “We put two generators in series without any additional water treating, and we kept the treating plant status quo. The second blowdown boiler just takes the dirty water from the fi rst boiler,” explains Sun. “If you looked at all the substances in [the blowdown] water, we had substances that exceeded the maximum, and so they would have said you have to remove that for the boiler to work well and reliably,” adds Mark Bilozir, director of technology development at Cenovus. “We had good reasons to believe that this water would still be able to give us steam without problems, and that was the thing that was really pushing the envelope, that we actually run off-spec water in the second boiler, and we’ve done that safely and reliably, and we’ve proven that is true.” The system not only offers process optimization and real cost savings, but leads to a significant reduction in the plant’s overall environmental impact, including drilling fewer water source wells, withdrawal of less intake water, and smaller disposal obligations.

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Rerunning the blowdown water through the second boiler has reduced the amount of original intake water needing to be disposed of from 20 to fi ve per cent. The process also reduced the volume of makeup water required by 50 per cent, improving the plant’s water recycle ratio to above 90 per cent. Cenovus began the overall blowdown boiler project in the spring of 2006, initiated a pilot project in 2007 at Foster Creek and has been running a commercial-sized pilot at Foster Creek since 2010 says Sun, adding that Cenovus estimates that the process reduces operating costs by approximately 15 cents per barrel. So far things are working pretty well, but Cenovus is taking a cautious approach, admits Sun. “It would be fair to say that doing this is not something you can do blindly,” cautions Bilozir. “You have to understand your water well, you have to understand your boilers well, and there are things you will learn when you try and do this on a larger scale, that are part of the process of making it work,” Bilozir adds. The process has been patented by Cenovus and will be incorporated into future expansion phases at Foster Creek and Christina Lake, as well as at other future in situ thermal developments at Narrows Lake and Telephone Lake.

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Suncor tests use of tailings For IN sItU ProCEssEs For inDUSTrY AS A WHOLe By da n I eL a t r n K a

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roVING that oilsands tailings water can indeed be treated and reused for in situ oilsands operations was a key fi nding under the Regional Water Management Solutions (RWMS) project in 2011, a key initiative under the former Oil Sands Leadership Initiative (OSLI), whose mandate it was to advance the development of the oilsands industry in a sustainable way. Oilsands operators have historically focused on minimizing individual water withdrawals and maximizing individual water treatment and recycling efforts, all in light of their own economics. But in light of the growing inventory of water stored in tailings ponds, and in addition to the fact that water is a Crown resource, a more collaborative, holistic and long-term regional approach to water management was proposed under OSLI’s RWMS project. In 2010 and 2011, testing of the technical, regulatory and economic feasibility of various regional and independent scenarios to better manage water took place under the RWMS project, and included the testing of leading-edge treatment technologies at a tailings water treatment pilot plant. The key finding of the first phase of the project was that regionally integrated water management scenarios that combined the transfer of tailings water to steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations provided a better environmental and economic footprint compared to scenarios where oilsands miners

suncor (in background) has begun treating its mining tailings water for use in steam assisted gravity drainage operations. a tailings pond is seen in the foreground.

and SAGD operators handled their water disposals independently. Since the fi ndings were published in a report by the Oil Sands Research and Information Network, OSLI and the RWMS project have both been rolled into Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), meaning the RWMS project fi ndings will be shared among a broader corporate membership base under COSIA. Suncor Energy Inc. is one of the member companies that participated in the project, and in March 2013, began testing the fi ndings at its own operations by treating its mining tailings water and integrating it into its own SAGD operations. “Within Suncor, we’ve taken some of the lessons learned from some of those original studies, and we’re now actually doing it ourselves. We have a little mini regional solution because we have our base plant mining operation, and we also have in situ operations, and we also have existing infrastructure in place to send water between

our base plant mine and our in situ Firebag operations,” explains Prit Kotecha, manager of water strategy and solutions with Suncor. While Suncor has led the implementation of the RWMS findings internally and is building its own internal water management strategy, Kotecha emphasizes that the bigger impact will be in finding a larger, regional solution. “If Suncor goes ahead and becomes a leader in water, that’s great, but that’s not what’s going to make an impact. It’s through the sharing of environmental strategies and technologies in air, water and energy, and strategies in our region that’s going to be a benefit,” says Kotecha. Under this collaborative industry approach, points out Kotecha, the potential impacts of implementing new technologies, solutions and strategies, and the potential magnitude if any are successful, may result in a huge benefit to both the vendors of the technology and the industry as a whole.

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ItH every passing year, Alberta is working harder to squeeze better protection for water out of its policies and regulations. The rules are progressively more detailed and stringent. But the real sea change is in the fundamental shift policy-makers are taking to coordinate the entire regulatory structure around cumulative impacts. “In other places considering [cumulative impacts], they’ve run out of water or the quality is so deteriorated that they’re forced to make these changes. We have some time—not a lot of time— before we get to that point,” says Andy Ridge, director of the water policy branch of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD). “We’re looking at cumulative benefits and impacts of not only oil and gas, but how it fits with municipalities and other water users. We signalled this in the mid-2000s.” This spring, ESRD launched what it calls a water conversation with Albertans, gathering feedback to update its overarching Water for Life strategy. Ridge says the big issue for industry is the push towards using brackish water. Rules that now apply to operators doing waterfloods will be broadened to include all of oil and gas. The principle is to use less-desirable water first and to prove that the effort has been made before moving to more desirable quality, Ridge says, but a conversation is vital to shaping policy because there is a diversity of water sources and quality across the province.

Directive 059, released by the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), has already been updated to say how water sourcing and use for hydraulic fracturing are to be reported. “Oilsands operators have been using brackish, so their concern is eﬃciency of reporting,” Ridge says. “Policy has to be informed by a whole range of perspectives.” The public conversation comes on the heels of the ERCB’s Directive 081, which was released this winter

and dictates water disposal and reporting rules for thermal in situ oilsands operators. “[Water limits] now are not based on how much water you take, but on how much water you are going to dispose of,” says John Zhou, executive director, environmental management and water resources, for Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions (AIEES). “It is a fundamental shift that has a lot of implications for the industry, especially mature projects.” Last year, Zhou led a consortium of industry and research bodies to determine the best combination of

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water treatment technologies for in situ operators to maximize their recycling programs and minimize or end water disposal. Whether they’re using raw water or recycling water produced during bitumen production, operators need to clean it to prevent scaling in the oncethrough steam generators (OTSGs) that make the steam that softens bitumen deep underground in the steam assisted gravity drainage process. Directive 081 is likely to make evaporator technology dominant in new projects and retrofits of mature projects because evaporation produces the largest amount of clean water from any source while concentrating the calcium, magnesium, silica and other contaminants into dry leftovers for disposal. However, because OTSGs are only about 77 per cent eﬃcient, the leftover 23 per cent—referred to as blowdown—has to be reheated, which wastes energy and produces greenhouse gas emissions. The other leading water cleaning technology, warm lime softening, uses less energy because adding lime to the source waters removes contaminants by means of chemical reaction. The process, however, wastes more water because the contaminants become concentrated and that fouled water is discarded. Zhou’s research project found that blowdown evaporation—a process using warm lime softening, followed by evaporation of the blowdown water from the boilers—is the best method for conserving both energy and water.

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grOUnDWATer MOniTOring is a province-wide initiative By M eL a n I e co L L I S o n

HE groundwater management framework in the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan 2012 - 2022 sets the scene for the province-wide groundwater monitoring directive, which will govern cumulative impacts. Oilsands and coalbed methane (CBM) development have accelerated the study of groundwater stores, but the surge in hydraulic fracturing to release shale oil and gas, and schemes to sequester CO2, is demanding an even fuller understanding of the impacts of withdrawals and injections underground. While research proceeds, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) is conducting a water conversation with stakeholders. “We’re evolving from individual operator-based management to a regional and resource play–based management system,” says Andy Ridge, director of ESRD’s water policy branch. “Government wants integrated, coherent information going out that’s coordinated with other ministries. We want collaboration built in high up so we don’t have to rewrite everything [because] we fi nd inconsistencies later. “We’re taking time to make it clear how policies are integrated and apply specifically to an operator, and how a single regulator is accountable for onthe-ground requirements, rather than having individual decisions add up to policy,” says Ridge. In recent years, there has been intense research into groundwater aquifers and chemistry done by the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS), scientists at universities

in the province and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). NRCan has been building on the wealth of information compiled through years of oil and gas exploration and the provincial groundwater database of water well information. Southern Alberta’s 10,000-squarekilometre Paskapoo aquifer, which soaks the roots of the Rockies, underlies the driest surface region in Alberta. That has implications for hydraulic fracturing in CBM development. Up north, under the wettest surface region, lie the oilsands and the Upper Cretaceous Sands aquifer. The aquifer is one of 30 key regional aquifers across Canada being mapped and evaluated in NRCan’s ambitious groundwater science program. AGS has completed an atlas of groundwater in the highly populated Edmonton-Calgary corridor, and is now mapping in the south. It has been compiling an inventory of both saline and non-saline groundwater, a project of particular interest to the energy sector, given ESRD’s push to move operators towards using saline instead of potable water. One AGS project performed baseline characterizations of regional groundwater flow directions, groundwater chemistry and the age of the groundwater in areas of energy development. AGS has also been doing quantitative studies of extracting water and disposing of produced water underground by both oilsands and CBM producers.

“We need to increase our knowledge of demands on groundwater and demands on aquifers. We’re looking to add more regional monitoring stations to track both quantity and quality,” Ridge says. The requirement to use brackish water preferentially “applies currently to a portion of the sector—those who are doing water floods—but we are going to broaden that to include all of oil and gas,” he says. In mid-2012, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) published principles of practice for tight gas exploration and production, and later expanded the guidelines to include tight oil. “We want to build off these best practices,” Ridge says, “to translate them into specific standards and guidelines and minimize the need to reinvent the wheel. CAPP principles are national in scope; there are differences when you go from voluntary to regulatory.” Similarly, baseline water well testing requirements put in place for CBM development may be expanded to all oil and gas production. “It is an area we have flagged to say it’s reasonable to apply consistent testing standards,” Ridge says. Extensive consultation will ensure ESRD “is staging [changes] so it’s not daunting for industry,” he adds. “Industry has to undertake a series of steps to show they’re using groundwater responsibly. “[In our water conversation], we’ve had strong engagement among knowledgeable stakeholders, and great ideas have come out.”

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LOWer ATHAbASCA regiOnAL PLAn MEANs NEw rEGULAtIoNs for surface water By M eL a n I e co L L I S o n

HE Lower Athabasca Regional Plan 2012 - 2022, fi nalized last August, brings new regulatory elements into play for surface water. The plan defi nes regional limits for impacts and spells out monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements. It also sets early warning triggers that call for action by the department, and determines what steps the department will take. “The Lower Athabasca Regional Plan includes very concrete rules for an entire region,” says Andy Ridge, director of the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) water policy branch. “[For example] there’s only so much groundwater that can be accessed before you need to change management practices or operations [according to] limits and triggers at a regional scale.” It took years of careful groundwork before ESRD could formalize the concept of managing cumulative impacts as its fi rst environmental management principle. Since the province’s Regional Sustainable Development Strategy for the Athabasca Oil Sands Area was published in the 1990s to balance unprecedented development with environmental protection, the principle of cumulative impacts has been percolating throughout government thinking. The government indicated its direction mid-decade and, by last summer, ESRD had made the transition from assessing impacts project by project

to sculpting comprehensive management frameworks. Policing the Athabasca River is complex because water quantity varies through the course of the year and quality varies along the course of the waterway. The river is affected by natural factors such as geology and soils, as well as urban runoff and industrial waste water—continuous releases from five pulp mills and four municipal waste water treatment plants upstream of the Grand Rapids and below the rapids, treated municipal waste water from Fort McMurray and one industrial release from an oilsands operation. Th is being the fi rst of the regional plans, ESRD is already incorporating the lessons learned as the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan is developed. The policy branch has been working on a revision of the water quantity section for the past year. “In some areas it will be more strict, in others more flexible. It was a onesize-fits-all approach, but [in future] will be more aligned to variations in flow. We may, for example, do more water storage off-stream,” Ridge says, mentioning both surface and aquifer storage as options. “We’re trying to move closer to ecological-based thresholds. The science is still maturing on how confidently we can say whether systems will be at risk.” New technologies are key. Just as advances such as semi-permeable membrane devices help detect

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changing contamination pressures on the river, technology is expected to help solve problems. ESRD is aiming for eventual complete integration in managing water quality, water quantity and the aquatic environment (species and habitat). It intends to add a management framework for biodiversity, including aquatic systems. Ridge says the work they’re doing on wetland management in the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan will loop back to inform the rules for the Athabasca region. “In the north, it’s currently one-off decision making,” Ridge says. “We want a common policy [throughout the province] for anyone who’s having an impact on wetlands. We need to decide what industry needs to do, including how much they pay and [details of] compensation.” Various plans for mitigating disturbance are being considered. The department wants its wetland piece ready for government decision this year. The rules would be implemented, then adapted according to evidence gathered over the first couple of years. “[New wetland policy] could have a huge impact on both mineable and in situ oilsands production,” Ridge says. “We are ensuring we’re not changing our signal to current projects that have requirements in place already. We recognize that regional circumstances differ. We will support responsible, sustainable development, and we are working to manage inevitable impacts.”

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COLLAbOrATing for a common good By d eB o r a H Ja r eM Ko

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HEN it comes to oilsands innovation, much talk centres on water use—and for good reason. In situ projects rely heavily on water to produce bitumen, with even the most advanced still requiring at least two barrels of steam for every barrel of oil. For others, four barrels of steam to each barrel of oil is not uncommon, while some require as many as seven or eight barrels of steam. This could prove to be a serious stumbling block for an industry expecting significant growth in the coming decades. The oilsands averaged 1.7 million barrels per day of production in 2011—a figure the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) estimates will grow to 3.7 million barrels per day by 2021. By 2015, the ERCB predicts in situ production will surpass mining as the primary source of bitumen. While individual companies are making headway on their own technologies to solve this issue, the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative (OSLI), a group of companies working collaboratively to improve the social and environmental aspects of the industry, is working on technologies that would benefit the industry, and society, as a whole. Formed in 2010, the founding membership of OSLI is a who’s who

of the biggest players in the oilsands: ConocoPhillips Canada, Nexen Inc., Statoil Canada Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Total E&P Canada Ltd. Shell Canada Limited later joined in 2011. The goal, in the organization’s own words, is to “shorten the current eightyear time frame required to field test technologies and move them to commercial application, leading to an accelerated return on investment.” The water centre would be the first focus of this mission. Costs are expected to be upwards of $130 million on the facility, with startup expected in 2014. The centre would be located at Suncor’s Firebag steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project, just north of Fort McMurray. The proposed facility would operate independent of the SAGD plant, essentially acting as a central location for companies to test drive multiple new technologies simultaneously. Tanks on site would accommodate water from Firebag and other in situ projects. All of the partners would share the capital and operating costs, with each acquiring equal rights to any data or intellectual property that results from the facility. It’s an uncommon partnership in a highly competitive industry. “I’ve been in this business for 22 years and this is the first instance where I’ve seen such comprehensive

efforts, companies aligning towards a common objective,” says Vincent Saubestre, executive director of OSLI. “The WTDC [Water Technology Development Centre] is obviously geared at testing water, but its impact could be way beyond—on the bottom line, on reducing our water footprint and CO2 emissions, and it will most likely reduce central facility costs. Indirectly, there are social angles—for example, lower emissions,” he says. A major motivator behind OSLI is the urgent need for the oilsands to reduce its water and emissions footprints, Saubestre notes. In addition to the obvious environmental benefits, there’s a significant financial incentive to the project as well. Water recycling and treatment can account for as much as 75 per cent of the capital cost in SAGD facilities. Saubestre believes the water-testing demonstration facility could lead to future projects focused on tailings management, land reclamation or greenhouse gas emissions reduction. “[Industry] will use this as a model for live testing centres,” he says. “This project, as a pilot project, enables collaborating companies to understand how they can work together.” The organization has completed preliminary engineering design and is awaiting approval.

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Oilfield purchasing technology is changing rapidly Purchasing patterns are changing in Canada’s oil and gas industry, and buyers are using technology to access more and better information. The COSSD, a new database of service and supply companies, is helping them control costs and maximize productivity. In 2012, more than 170,000 people used it. In Canada’s Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, explorers and producers are changing the way they work. In many plays, their focus is on repeatable, factory-like approaches to drilling, completion and tie-in of new wells, and to the service and operation of existing wells. More and more, they are focused on efficiency and cost control. Website (unique visitors)

and move their head offices or open and close branch locations. Luckily, the Canadian Oilfield Service and Supply Database (COSSD) is constantly updated, so a buyer can count on it to find what they need. They can use the COSSD for free, and it’s available in six ways: website, smartphone, iPad, Garmin GPS, digital edition and print.

Garmin GPS (downloads)

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iPad (downloads)

140,000

Company type

Per cent of total visits

Primary purchasers Exploration & Production Engineering Pipeline Construction Refining & Petrochemicals/ Gas Processing Total—primary purchasers Secondary purchasers Service & Supply Transportation Manufacturing & Fabrication Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Health, Safety & Environmental Total—secondary purchasers Occasional purchasers Legal, Financial & Investment Government, Agencies & Consulates

Universities, Research Institutions & Public Libraries

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60,000

From a sample of 1,000 companies who visited COSSD.com in Q2-Q3 2012.

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Engineers, planners, managers and buyers are using new approaches and technologies to make sure they purchase services and supplies at the lowest possible cost. Just as important, they are making sure that services and supplies are delivered when they are needed. Time is money in the oilfield, and they’re focused on saving both. To save time and money, a buyer needs to have more than one option—they need choices in products and vendors. They may have information on some vendors in their accounting, enterprise resource planning and compliance systems. That’s usually not enough—they must extend their search for suppliers, so they need other sources. However, finding what a buyer needs in Canada’s oilfield is a complex process. The service and supply industry is made up of over 3,000 companies, and they are constantly changing. Mergers and acquisitions and company startups and closures happen frequently. Vendors change the products and services they offer,

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Whether in an office or in the field, it’s proving to be a buyer’s best source for vendor information—that’s why its usage is growing so rapidly. In 2012, over 53,000 people used its print or digital edition. The fastest growth is in digital usage—in 2012, over 118,000 used it through the website, smartphone, iPad and Garmin GPS. That’s more than 170,000 in total. COSSD is also proving to be a vendor’s best choice for connecting to their customers. Buyers are now using COSSD.com on their web browsers and iPhone, BlackBerry or Android smartphones. They can search a vendor’s company profile, product catalogue, display advertisements, categories of service and locations. They’re also able to use its proximity search features to find a service or product close to a town, city or even their smartphone’s current location. An analysis of 1,000 companies who visited COSSD.com in the second to third quarter

LefT: Digital usage of the COSSD has grown substantially since 2009. ABOVe: Many of Canada’s leading explorers and producers use COSSD.com—as do many other primary and secondary purchasers of oilfield services and supplies. of 2012 showed that many were primary buyers—explorers and producers such as Encana Corporation or Talisman Energy Inc., and pipeline operators like TransCanada Corporation. Many more are secondary buyers—service and supply companies such as Weatherford Canada Partnership and Halliburton. If you’re a buyer, visit COSSD.com to learn how this database can help you. If you’re a vendor, use the COSSD to ensure 170,000 or more buyers can find you. Become part of this fast-growing buyer/ seller community—email Christopher Kuntz at ckuntz@junewarren-nickles.com or call 403.516.3492.

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RESEARCH

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Innovation from the grOUnD UP By J I M B en t eI n

ArC LaBerge refers to Devon Canada Corporation’s Innovative Pipeline Strategies (IPS) program as a “win-win,” except there are so many who have benefited from the company’s approach he should use the expression “win-wins.” LaBerge, Devon’s manager of facilities engineering and construction, and Haroon Rasheed, interconnect pipeline project manager at the company’s Jackfish 3 project, are more than happy to list those who are benefiting from approaches that reduce the right-of-way impact Devon’s pipelines have by about 50 per cent. The list includes, but is defi nitely not limited to, farmers, forestry companies, and Alberta forest service and wildlife oﬃcials. “You go back now to forested areas [where Devon’s low-impact trenching approach has been used] and you see pro-life growth soon afterward,” says Rasheed. “The wildlife even appreciates it, because you’ve saved their homes.” LaBerge, who has been in the oil and gas industry for 25 years and has worked in construction-related areas for much of that time, oversees the engineering and construction of pipelines and other surface facilities, such as gas plants and well sites. Rasheed graduated a chemical engineer from the University of Calgary in 2004 and has been with Devon for five years. As an industry veteran, LaBerge was frustrated with the one-size-fitsall approach to pipelining. Pipeline contractors would typically excavate a 15-metre-wide passage across a field and dig a metre-wide trench with the aim of installing a 7.5-centimetre line.

But the problem is that dirt bulks up when it’s brought to the surface, making it impossible to return it after the trench has been dug and the pipe is in place. That led to spreading the excess over the width of the right-ofway and then covering it with topsoil. The annual spring melt and rains made the disturbed area even more diﬃcult to traverse for farmers. Devon improved the method by creating a smaller pathway across the land, excavating the area and carefully packing the earth afterwards. The company began testing this approach in 2007 and has used it company-wide across Canada since 2009. “In 2011, we started piloting the next generation of IPS,” says LaBerge. “We call it trenchless, and in 2012, 36 per cent of our pipelines were installed in that way. We feel it’s given us a competitive advantage,” says LaBerge. The company has now moved to pilot the approach on public lands, successfully applying it first on a 600metre stretch near Rocky Mountain House. Less than 40 per cent of Devon’s pipelines are on agricultural land, with a greater shift towards oilsands and other development on public lands. “We found the benefits were far greater on forested land because everything stays in place,” he says. “We can leave the trees in place.” At Jackfish 3, Rasheed says Devon is piloting the approach on a 3500-metre section of the 16-kilometre right-ofway pipeline system. The successes of these pilots are encouraging Devon to use the trenchless technology increasingly at Jackfish and on other public lands.

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Rasheed says aside from the environmental benefits of the approach there was a 25 per cent savings on construction costs, with smaller crews, less equipment and almost no deforestation effort, which all translate into savings. LaBerge says there are only a few areas of Alberta and British Columbia where the approach might not work, such as the Edson, Grande Cache and Fox Creek areas of Alberta, where the soil composition makes it impractical. Devon builds an average of 150 kilometres of pipelines per year and is planning as much as 250 kilometres in 2013. Overall, LaBerge says Devon expects to save as much as 32 per cent using the trenchless approach instead of conventional methods. And that doesn’t include dollars saved not having to compensate angry farmers or make repairs. “Prior to 2007, we would be spending millions of dollars a year repairing old pipeline rightof-ways, paying for crop damage and replacing damaged farm equipment,” says LaBerge. The company has received several awards for the approach, including the 2011 Major Reclamation Award, presented by the Alberta Chamber of Resources, a 2009 Steward of Excellence President’s Award from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, an Alberta Emerald Foundation award and others. More companies have begun to adopt Devon’s IPS approach, including a pipeline company that specializes in larger diameter lines, which means the industry could see smaller pipeline surface footprints in the future.

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If doug Kulba has his way, large energy industry projects like enbridge Inc.’s northern Gateway Pipeline would be built with such a small impact on the environment that public opposition would be minimal, as would concerns about fossil fuel development in general. “we’re demonstrating you can build pipelines without displacing trees and with minimal disturbance,” says Kulba, resource assurance specialist with alberta environment and water and coordinator of the alberta government’s Partners in resource excellence (Pre) program. a key focal point of the Pre program is the evergreen centre for resource excellence and Innovation, a training, demonstration and research centre situated on a 14-acre plot of land located in evergreen Park, three kilometres south of Grande Prairie, alta. the centre was established in 2009 with the goal of inspiring the energy industry, the government and the community to develop innovative resource project solutions to deal with environmental issues; promote collaboration; provide education and training facilities to assist with best management practices; and to identify and recognize environmental leaders. Historically, alberta environment and the industry had not worked together to develop solutions to their problems. “we were waiting for problems to occur, and then we would go deal with them,” says Kulba. “that’s more or less a reactive approach as opposed to proactive.” when provincial regulators encountered a violation or a problem, “typically the government would say, ‘that’s not our problem. you guys figure it out,’” Kulba says. this lack of communication and collaboration created a vicious cycle, and problems often reoccurred. “there

was a buildup of frustration because [farmers and other landowners] wanted things done properly,” says Kulba. “It got more difficult for the industry to gain access to land, and there was social distrust among landowners for the entire industry.” It was this distrust that led to the creation of the Pre program and evergreen. Since then, Kulba and others involved with Pre have worked with a number of industry players, including devon canada, Paramount resources Ltd., Stratus and others to develop new approaches to building pipelines. as a result of that work, new devices like the cameron Bucket, which digs smaller trenches, were developed by working with a Grande Prairie inventor named Lyle cazes. other tools, such as a compaction wheel, which was already being used by other industries, were adapted to the pipeline sector. the new approaches, known as Innovative Pipeline Strategies, have led to a growing list of new methods and equipment. Kulba says the pursuit of excellence requires focusing on outcomes and cultivating a supportive atmosphere where people feel comfortable trying new things and sometimes making mistakes. “Knowing they can try innovative things without fear of reprisal, that’s a big thing,” he says. while much of evergreen’s work deals with pipeline technology, he says it is also involved in a program aimed at winter planting of black spruce trees on oilsands development sites, in the development of better bridge and road-crossing approaches, and in other approaches aimed at helping to improve the environmental performance of the energy industry.

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Cenovus has a tool kit for rEDUCING sUrFACE FOOTPrinT

PtIMIZING returns by minimizing resources invested can translate into both economic and environmental benefits, and that’s what’s driving oilsands innovation and commercialization efforts at Cenovus Energy Inc. “We try to get as much of the Crown’s oil out of the ground and to market with as little land, gas and water as possible,” says Mark Bilozir, director of technology development at Cenovus. Some of the company’s strategies to achieve this include the fully commercialized wedge well technology and its evolving solvent aided process (SAP) applications, which both boost production from existing steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) well pads. The company’s newest strategy is the development of the SkyStrat drilling rig—a heli-transported drilling rig used for stratigraphic drilling in the oilsands. Stratigraphic delineation wells are drilled to determine where the oilsands

resource boundaries are, and to help plot eventual well placement and depth. “Our traditional strat well program was like a 10-week mass drilling exercise, trying to drill while the ground was frozen because there is so much wet ground and muskeg up there you could only get in with heavy equipment in the winter time when everything is frozen,” explains Bilozir. “Every well has to have a road to it and every lease has to be cleared off so that a big rig can be brought up there,” Bilozir says. The highly coordinated effort to complete a single season of stratigraphic drilling is extremely challenging, to say the least. “You have a logistical nightmare in trying to drill 300 wells in a 10-week window, which is not the best way to operate because you’re pressed for time, you’re plowing roads to every well pad and you’re making bigger well pads because you have big rigs coming in,” adds Bilozir. “What [the SkyStrat does] is we can now drill, probably just about all year round, and we can drill with a smaller pad. And now, because we’re heli-supported, we don’t need to put a road to every pad. So right there our footprint is reduced by, I’d say, 50 per cent compared to a rig, just on the land front alone,” says Bilozir. “The real benefit is the strategic land-development aspect,” says Al Krawchuk, senior staff member for the SkyStrat drilling rig program at Cenovus. “So instead of

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going in and blanketing an area like Steepbank that doesn’t [already] have a whole bunch of roads scarring the landscape, we can go in and determine where the resource is and, through some thoughtful planning, put the roads where they need to be, not necessarily where they were originally proposed when we didn’t have the benefit of knowing where the resource is.” The SkyStrat system also means the ability to drill year-round, which equals longer-term jobs for the rig’s drilling crews, which will lead to decreased seasonal turnover rates and improved performance. “Now we can also have a safer operation and better logistics because instead of having a whole bunch of guys show up for 10 weeks of work and then spread out around the province again, we can actually have a bunch of guys who are familiar with the operation. It becomes a safer, more predictable operation and when that happens, it also becomes more reliable and more cost eﬃcient,” adds Bilozir. In the spring of 2012, after drilling enough of the initial wells to prove that the concept was reliable, and the regulators were satisfied that the operation was safe, Krawchuk and his team took the operation into fully heli-supported mode for an entire summer strat well drilling program at Cenovus’ Steepbank project, north of Fort McMurray. “That asset area is kind of unique in that it doesn’t have a whole lot of development in it, and that’s why we think the SkyStrat drilling concept

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Cenovus's skystrat heli-transported drilling rig makes it possible to drill stratigraphic wells in the oilsands using a smaller well pad and without seasonal constraints.

is the right fit,” says Krawchuk, referring to the lack of available roadways. Last year, the SkyStrat rig drilled 11 wells in 100 per cent heli-supported mode at Steepbank. At less than two-thirds the size and less than half the weight of a conventional rig, the fi rst generation prototype SkyStrat has drilled wells in excess of 400 metres deep and the goal is to reach any depth within Cenovus’ asset area, which is up to 600 metres deep. Cenovus will be executing another summer drilling campaign with the rig this year, and is currently designing and fabricating a secondgeneration version of the SkyStrat.

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reDUCing FOOTPrinT FUrTHer WiTH WeDge WeLLS Maximizing production without enlarging the surface footprint is another strategy Cenovus has been employing through its wedge well technology for over five years now. Wedge wells are infi ll wells placed in between, and at the same level as, the bottom producing wells in stacked SAGD well pairs. “If you put a well at the bottom of that wedge of the oil, the oil’s already been heated up. All you need to do is get the well producing, which might take a shot of steam just to get things going, but once it starts up, you could end up with 600–800 barrels of oil per day coming from the infi ll wedge well, so its production that you are getting today that would take a very long time to get out of your other wells,” says Bilozir.

Approximately 12 per cent of the 120,000 gross barrels of oil per day currently being produced at Foster Creek comes from 58 wells using the wedge well technology. Cenovus says it has the potential to increase overall recovery from the reservoir by as much as 10 per cent while reducing the steam to oil ratio using the technology. Since drilling its SAGD well pads over 10 years ago, Cenovus has changed the wellhead spacing design, resulting in a reduction of the size of the well pad by 38 per cent. The addition of a wedge well to the well pad increases the footprint slightly, but the total surface footprint is reduced compared to the fi rst SAGD well pads, and the production coming out of that land is improved, says Bilozir.

SOLVenTS inCreASe PrODUCTiOn WiTHOUT ADDeD DiSTUrbAnCe Another way Cenovus is improving production is through SAP recovery at its Christina Lake operations for about six or seven years, says Bilozir. “We’ve been adding butane [to steam] in SAP, but we’ve also got a Condi-SAP program that’s being kicked off,” says Bilozir, referring to a trial program

getting started at Christina Lake that adds condensate, not just pure butane, to steam. By adding butane or condensate to the SAGD process, the bitumen in the reservoir becomes less viscous and flows faster, improving the production rate. Total recovery from the reservoir is also enhanced. Cenovus says that it anticipates a 30 per cent increase in production and a 20–25 per cent decrease in the steam to oil ratio using SAP, and expects to recover about 15 per cent more oil from the reservoir. SAP recovery may also be used in the future as an enabler to SAGD, not just as an incremental recovery tool in existing SAGD operations. “In some cases, we’re of the opinion that SAP might enable us to produce some reserves where SAGD would not work well enough by itself, so it might allow us to produce resources that are not as economical with steam alone,” says Krawchuk. Cenovus plans to examine how SAP changes the shape of the steam chamber in the near future, which will then impact how it comes up with better combinations of SAGD SAP processes and wedge well placements in future phases, further optimizing production while reducing its surface footprint.

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HE Faster Forests program under Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) aims to speed up the restoration of cleared forest areas that have been disturbed to accommodate in situ oilsands exploration activity. Planting a mix of local grass seeds on a cleared area and waiting for local trees and shrubs to move in takes a long time, so the Faster Forests program speeds up revegeta– tion by planting tree and shrub seedlings on site. In situ oilsands development is mainly concentrated in the southern Lower Athabasca Region of Alberta, an area that overlaps the northern boreal forest. To establish oilsands reservoir characteristics in the area, seismic activity gets shot and exploratory and coring wells get drilled. The Faster Forests accelerated revegetation program restores these disturbed landscapes and their ecological integrity faster, shortening the negative impacts

imposed on wildlife habitat and ecosystem functions. Faster Forests was originally launched in 2009 under the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative, but has since been rolled into the broader collaborative industry efforts of COSIA. In its fi rst year, the program’s participating companies planted 170,000 seedlings on reclaimed drilling pads. That effort escalated and expanded to the planting of 247,000 mixed tree and shrub seedlings in 2010, and approximately 600,000 mixed seedlings in both 2011 and 2012. At the end of 2012, the program had planted over 1.6 million tree and shrub seedlings. When the program began, tree and shrub seeds were collected from local forestry operators, but as the program gained momentum, there were serious concerns about the limited quantity and variety of seeds on the market. To secure ongoing tree and shrub seed stock, seed collection from local

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provincially designated seed zones began during the end of the summer of 2011. These seeds were then planted in Faster Forests commercial greenhouses for germination. After their germination and establishment in the greenhouses, the various little tree and shrub seedlings went out for planting in August 2012. Collecting the seeds locally and starting them off in greenhouses has not only expanded the scope of the program and secured the program’s future supply of seedlings, but it has also given the seedlings an enhanced and accelerated start while supporting local genetic adaptation. COSIA is focused on ensuring areas are returned as close to their natural state as possible, so to manage the program and track its progress, information about all the plantings has been entered into the Landscape Ecological Assessment and Planning (LEAP) tool. The LEAP tool is used to establish data on land use in the southern Lower Athabasca Region of Alberta. Using a combination of geospatial data and forest industry modelling, LEAP provides insight into how reforestation and reclamation work performed today will affect the land in the future. While the program continues to expand, native tree species planted in 2012 include the balsam poplar, white birch, white spruce, black spruce and jack pine. Native shrub species planted in 2012 include the green alder, Saskatoon berry, red osier dogwood, blueberry, willow, buffalo berry, chokecherry, pin cherry, bog birch and the wild rose.

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New tailings process MEANs FEwEr PoNDs AND FASTer reCLAMATiOn By da n I eL a t r n K a

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NE of the top-of-mind challenges for oilsands mining companies in Alberta right now is the timely reduction of fluid tailings and their conversion into traďŹ&#x192;cable deposits. The purpose of a tailings pond is to settle out the mixture of materials leftover from the oilsands extraction process. A single pond can cover an area the size of multiple football fields, and it is estimated that existing tailings ponds in the Athabasca region currently cover over 176 square kilometres. The tailings generally consist of a mixture of sand, water, clay and residual bitumen. Once in the pond, and over time, the water separates and rises to the top, and the sands settle to the bottom. However, because of their physical properties, the clay particles donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t settle out as quickly and remain suspended in the water. Th is water and clay mixture is called mature fi ne tailings (MFT) and without some sort of intervention, the MFT fluid can take hundreds of years to dry out so the land below can be reclaimed. In response to the growing inventory of MFT in the industry and the latest regulations to accelerate reclamation efforts, Suncor Energy Inc. has developed an innovative process called TRO, which enables the MFT fluid to dry out within months instead of decades. The innovation lies in the addition of a polymer flocculent to the MFT, which effectively clumps the clay particles together and releases the water from the mixture. Having developed

the process in 2003 and field testing it since 2008, Suncor received regulatory approval in June 2010 to implement the TRO process commercially at its Millennium and North Steepbank Extension mines. Not only will the new process decrease the time it takes to reduce existing inventories of MFT and advance reclamation efforts, but because the MFT can be converted more quickly, it will reduce the need for new tailings ponds to be built. Since implementing the process, Suncor has cancelled plans for five additional tailings ponds at its oilsands mining operations, in addition to two ponds that were planned for their North Steepbank Extension.

Suncor says it also expects to reduce the number of tailings ponds at its present mine site from the current eight to just one, shrinking the total land area covered by the ponds by approximately 80 per cent. The impetus toward meeting more aggressive tailings-reduction targets is an industry-wide challenge, which over time has expanded beyond the capability of any one company to solve due to the sheer size of the total obligation. As of the end of 2012, Suncor has spent more than $1 billion to implement the TRO process across its operations, and has begun sharing the TRO process details with its industry peers, as well as university and government scientists, to advance overall industry tailings reduction.

suncorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pond 1 is the first oilsands tailings pond to be reclaimed to a solid surface.

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A new practice to fix An OLD PrObLeM By da n I eL a t r n K a

really knew how this was going to work,” says Mrklas. For anyone taking a look at those barren contaminated areas today, it is quite obvious that any degradation of toxic PHCs has not happened fast enough and the land remains stressed. “Now we are in 2013 and this practice is obviously abandoned because we know it doesn’t work,” Mrklas adds. In locations where contaminants were once spread widely across the surface of the lease, phytoremediation works very well, attests Mrklas. “It’s shallow [the contamination], and it’s perfect because now you can seed it and the root system has access to the hydrocarbons right away, within the first 30–60 centimetres, and that’s when [phytoremediation] works best,” he says. Phytoremediation is a subset of bioremediation, using a plant’s natural bacterial processes to facilitate the degradation of contaminants in soil. The phytoremediation process that Mrklas is applying is an enhanced process. Contaminated soil is fi rst aerated and exposed to sunlight, and then it’s amended and prepared for seeding, just like farming. Exposing the contaminated soil fi rst to air and

light begins the degradation process. Further soil preparation increases the chances that the seeds will successfully germinate and the vegetation will be established, which is the fi rst step in the biodegradation cycle. The enhancement comes in the form of planting grass and cereal seeds that have been custom treated with naturally occurring plant growth/promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), the bacteria having been collected from the actual site to be remediated. The bacteria treatment more aggressively colonizes the plant’s roots and stimulates plant growth, which allows faster degradation of the PHC contaminants in situ as the plants and their roots grow more robust. The PGPR seed treatment is non-pathogenic and is environmentally benign. “We’re always looking at things, how we can get better, at what else is out there, and how can we use technology to help us get better at this because landfi lling is not really attractive,” says Mrklas. “It just moves stuff from one place to another. So when you are able to degrade it, it’s gone, and it will never come back. So that’s a huge advantage.”

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oNoCoPHILLIPs Canada is using an enhanced form of phytoremediation to clean up petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) from contaminated land areas. Relatively new, the process is proving to be an effective alternative to the practice of dig and dump reclamation, especially in remote locations. Ole Mrklas, remediation coordinator at ConocoPhillips Canada, says the primary driver is the significant cost advantage when compared to other methods. Although phytoremediation takes longer than excavating and transporting contaminated soil to a landfi ll, phytoremediation is a much less energy intensive and expensive approach. “I can pick up a site in a matter of days, versus [phytoremediation], which might take three to five years. But even given that, it’s still way more cost-effective, at less than half the cost,” attests Mrklas. Some of the remote contaminated land areas Mrklas has dealt with are leftover from the days when spent diesel-based drilling fluids were disposed of through land spraying. “It was an approved practice and nobody

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Directive 074 still a WOrK in PrOgreSS By M eL a n I e co L L I S o n

ArLY in 2009, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) adopted a legal enforcement tool to end the expansion of tailings ponds. Directive 074: Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands Mining Schemes imposes a schedule on oilsands surface miners to slow the buildup of the clay slurry that they call mature fi ne tailings and to reclaim the land the ponds cover. Because the tailings ponds are also settling ponds from which companies recycle 90 per cent of the water that they use to produce bitumen, there will always be a need to have some kind of facility to separate tailings from water. New technologies under development, however, are expected to make the required area markedly smaller than the 170 square kilometres currently covered by ponds in Alberta. Although companies had been researching and piloting technologies to separate the tailings from water contaminated by bitumen production processes, they had failed to meet the tailings management targets projected in their initial applications. The ERCB said at the time that Directive 074 was one of the most important directives it had ever put out. Tailings growth cutbacks started at 20 per cent per year and stepped up to 50 per cent last year. The government set 2016 as the deadline to stop pond expansion. Companies will have to process tailings at least as quickly as they produce them. In directing the rate of reduction of fluid tailings volumes, Directive 074 introduced the ERCB’s overall tailingsmanagement tool box. From the clay

slurry, companies must create what’s known as traﬃcable deposits, that is, deposits having suﬃcient stability and fi rmness to support large equipment to shape the land formations that are the basis of reclamation.

The difficulty in treating tailings lies in finding a way to make the fine hydrocarbon-coated clay platelets stick together. The directive required companies to provide details for their pond management plans: • A sampling plan: a process flow diagram with sampling points located, spacing, accuracy, frequency and sampling methodology; • Statistical or operational supporting analysis for the sampling plan; • A detailed description of methodology to satisfy Directive 074 requirements; and, • Detailed supportive data where equivalent methodology is proposed, should they back off their fi rst choice of tailings treatment technology. In September 2009, companies filed a baseline survey of each of their tailings ponds along with their detailed plans. Each year, they report the decrease in suspended solids in their ponds and the rate of deposition of treated tailings in dedicated disposal areas built and operated to ERCB specifications. They describe the tailings treatments they’re employing and in what combination.

They discuss contingency plans and include detailed drawings of their operations. At press time, the ERCB was unable to comment on the total impact of Directive 074 so far because analysts were still working through the reams of technical data and drawings fi led; however, submissions up to 2011 are posted online at ercb.ca/ regulations-and-directives/directives/ directive074/tailings-2010. The diﬃculty in treating tailings lies in fi nding a way to make the fi ne hydrocarbon-coated clay platelets stick together. The fi ne clay hangs suspended in a murky layer, drifting above the settled sands and below the clear water that will be recycled. Eight tailings process and deposition technologies so far have been shown to meet performance objectives, but because each has shortcomings, companies, government and university facilities continue to investigate options. Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environmental Solutions is overseeing the development of an oilsands tailings technology road map and action plan to pull all the available information together. The goal is to advance the commercialization of effective and environmentally sustainable technologies for solidifying tailings. The best can then be put to work serving Directive 074 and the tailings management framework Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has been writing. That framework is to be incorporated into the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan 2012 - 2022.

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Regional plan focuses oN ProtECtING AND reCLAiMing LAnD

ILsANDs-rICH northern Alberta is home to an amazing wealth of agricultural lands, boreal forests and wetlands, including the Peace–Athabasca Delta—one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world. And while natural resource development is an environmental concern for the region, population growth due to a swelling workforce also poses a risk. The province’s Lower Athabasca Regional Plan 2012 - 2022 considers both of these and aims for a future in which the region’s diverse economic opportunities, including tourism and

recreation, are balanced with social and environmental considerations by means of a cumulative effects management approach. Cumulative effects management focuses on understanding the effects and risks of development and

ensuring stakeholders work together and share responsibility when planning their impacts. The regional plan communicates two themes: an emphasis on recreational and conservation lands, and a rethinking of reclamation. To achieve cumulative effects management, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has identified limits to disturbance on the landscape and set in place warning levels that will trigger mitigating actions, and outlined these in the plan. The plan makes industry’s current voluntary integrated landscapemanagement practices mandatory. For example, forestry and oilsands companies will need to share roads going forward, instead of making separate cuts through the forest. When their industrial use is over, some rights-of-way will be adapted for recreation, but those that aren’t must be reclaimed quickly so they don’t become permanent barriers to wildlife movement. The plan boosts the amount of land protected as wildland provincial parks and conservation areas from six per cent to 22 per cent by adding more than 1.2 million hectares. This ensures wildlife movement and habitat stability, protects the region’s biodiversity and stands as a benchmark for assessing impacts on the rest of the region. Delineating these lands also limits the impact of recreation by defi ning areas where it’s welcome and specifying where tourism infrastructure will be acceptable.

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While a limited level of vegetation management may be allowed in selected areas within the conservation lands, no new oilsands, metallic and industrial minerals, or coal tenure will be sold. The push to prevent disturbance segues into the province’s fresh look at reclamation, since minimal disturbance means land can be reclaimed more readily. The fi nancial structure of the reclamation security program now better reflects the timing of a company’s investment, makes reclamation expectations more specific and details reporting requirements that recognize eight stages of reclamation (up from the previous three). Reclamation end-use decisions will support biodiversity, forest health and recreation possibilities. The plan also requires stakeholders to work with aboriginal communities to foster, promote and preserve cultural activities and cultural heritage. Treaty rights remain a top priority. More than 700 archeological sites in the region have significant cultural deposits, and about 25 of them are considered particularly important. The only options for these sites are conducting further scientific investigation or avoiding them. The plan also considers that First Nations need to hunt, fish and trap for food reasonably close to home rather than having to travel long distances. A landscape-management plan for public lands and a biodiversity piece that fits with the province’s caribou plan are to be added by the end of 2013.

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ANADA is one of the largest countries on the planet and is the steward of almost 20 per cent of the world’s wilderness, 20 per cent of its fresh water, 24 per cent of its wetlands and 10 per cent of its forests. Rainforests tend to get the most environmental attention due to their tremendous diversity of species, but even though one-quarter of Canada’s land mass consists of fragile Arctic ecosystems, we have more than 70,000 described species, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Biodiversity refers to the number, variety and variability of living organisms in a particular habitat or ecosystem. Genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity together protect against pests and disease. Where diversity is lacking, you fi nd voracious pine beetles and the blue stain virus they carry suffocating 160,000 square kilometres of B.C. forest, or you fi nd Winnipeg’s tree canopy stripped by the elm bark beetle and the Dutch elm disease it carries. Where species are mixed, nonvulnerable plants interrupt the route of transmission. But more than that, species are interdependent. Plants take in the CO2 we breathe out, for example, and produce the oxygen we need. With 2011-20 being the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, Canada is in year three of scoping out its formal biodiversity strategy. The Canadian Biodiversity Strategy (CBS) vision statement is: “A society that lives and develops as part of nature, values the diversity of life, takes no more than can be replenished and leaves to future generations a

nurturing and dynamic world, rich in biodiversity.” This statement translates into four federal, provincial and territorial goals: • Healthy and diverse ecosystems: Reducing human impacts and restoring damaged ecosystems enhance the productivity and resilience of our ecosystems and preserve the goods and services essential to our well-being. • Viable populations of species: Maintaining the structure and function of ecosystems requires the full complement of native species. Conservation at the ecosystem level sustains most species, but special efforts are needed for some. • Genetic resources and adaptive potential maintained: Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy. It increases production, assures ecological resilience and creates options for future innovation. • Sustainable use of biological resources: Ecologically sustainable production and consumption of

natural resources assure stable jobs, traditional lifestyles, long-term food security and human health. CBS says approaching those goals requires considering ecological goals at the same time as economic and social goals to keep the trade-offs apparent. Government policy leads the way, of course, in countering threats to biodiversity. The main threats are unsustainable harvesting; forest clearing and land conversion for agriculture, and human development encroaching on habitat; pollution; the invasion of species that have no local predators to keep them in check; and climate change. But the thrust is to get the public— including the oil and gas community— interested and involved. To help businesses understand that biodiversity is good for their bottom line, the Canadian Business and Biodiversity Program has published a series of case studies that can be downloaded at businessbiodiversity.ca/ documents/CBBP-CaseStudies.pdf.

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t’s a dog’s dream job: tail up, nose to the ground, running through the woods, sniﬃ ng for poop. That would be three types of poop: woodland caribou, moose and wolf. When the human members of each team catch up, they reward the dog with some ball play, collect the feces, pack it up with hundreds of other samples and eventually send it to a laboratory where a battery of tests determine the donor’s individual identity, sex, and psychological and physiological stressors. “We get a wide variety of stress and nutrition and reproductive hormone information. We can even get the DNA of the prey or the plants that it was eating, immune markers and environmental toxins from the samples,” says Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Seattle’s University of Washington. Wasser pioneered hormone measurement in scat in the 1980s, and his was among the fi rst laboratories in the 1990s to figure out a way to extract DNA information from scat. At the same time, he pioneered the dogscenting method of collection. Scat analysis can essentially provide researchers with as much information as a blood sample provides physicians. When coupled with the ability to quickly collect a vast quantity of fecal material from multiple species over

large areas, this method becomes a powerful tool to analyze changes in the environment over space and time. Statoil Canada Ltd. recently conducted such a study. Dubbed the scat dog study, it brings a new understanding of the effects of wolf predation, habitat loss and human activity on caribou and moose in the oilsands. The region between Highway 63 and Highway 881 north of Conklin, Alta., is host to roads, power lines, pipelines, seismic lines and several in situ oilsands projects, including Statoil’s Leismer Demonstration Project.

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It’s also habitat for caribou and moose, two key species of special interest to aboriginal groups and public stakeholders. The beleaguered caribou herd in this region, called the East Side Athabasca River, is predicted to disappear within 30 years, while extirpation of the species from Alberta altogether is predicted within the next 70 years. Responding to these dire predictions and stakeholder pressure, Statoil resolved to bring in the best science available for accurately tallying the current caribou, moose and wolf populations and, as it turns out, there

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are significantly more caribou there than previously estimated using less-effective census methods (expert opinion and radio collar data). The depth of the scat dog study also points to critical new information that, if acted upon, may give caribou a fighting chance of coexisting with remote industrial development in northern Alberta without resorting to radical and unpredictable ecosystem engineering, such as wolf extermination—the currently advocated method of managing caribou population declines.

MYTH bUSTing Four teams consisting of a dog, a hand ler and an orienteer collected about 1,500 samples of caribou, wolf and moose droppings from 40 contiguous eight-kilometre-by-eightkilometre parcels between midDecember and mid-March in 2006, 2007 and 2009. The cold temperatures throughout the sampling period ensured the scat remained frozen and well-preserved. “One of the key fi ndings,” says Tim Shopik, manager of regulatory affairs for Statoil Canada, “is that now we have a statistically defensible caribou population for that area.” From the genetic work done on scat samples, the estimated caribou population is 330 animals in the East Side Athabasca River region. Th is is

considerably higher than previous estimates of between 90 and 150 caribou. The study also found that the caribou here are declining at a slower rate than people had thought. Th is is important because it ratchets down the sense of urgency that leads to radical solutions, thinking that nothing other than predator removal will make a difference. “People were also saying that deer were invading the oilsands landscape from the south because of global warming and landscape fragmentation, which favours deer populations,” Wasser says. “Because deer are the favourite prey of wolves [the study found that in winter, 80 per cent of a wolf’s diet is deer, 10 per cent is moose and 10 per cent is caribou], so the argument goes, wolves were increasing in

number to consume the deer and they were taking down caribou as a form of bycatch.” But based on the distribution of scat in the study, the geographic features that attract wolves are the same linear features—seismic lines, roads, etc.—that attract deer. In other words, wolves want to be where the deer are. Th is is the exact opposite of what caribou prefer, which is to wander in the forest. “So by selectively going after deer, the wolves are actually less likely to get caribou,” Wasser concludes. In itself, this is an argument against wolf extermination. But disease is another reason. Deer consume a lot of vegetation. In dense populations, they

CK-9 Frehley, a key member of statoil Canada’s recent research into wildlife habitat impacts in the Fort mcmurray region, on the trail of fisher scat.

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KeeP OFF THe LiCHen The depth of the scat dog study data, now that the fi ndings are part of the public domain, can be incorporated into wildlife management well beyond the confi nes of the study area. One fi nding that has wide implications is that during the winter, when most females are pregnant, 60 per cent of the caribou’s diet is lichen. (The next most important food source represents a mere five per cent of their diet.) “Lichen is very rich in glucose, which is sugar,” Wasser says. “In fact,

glucose is the only food source of the fetus during gestation.” The problem is that terrestrial lichen—a fungus that looks like a snowy dusting on ground vegetation— is a very limited resource and human activity has a significant effect on caribou access to lichen. The study also measured cortisol (glucocorticoid) and progesterone levels in caribou. Cortisol’s most important job is to mobilize glucose, a rich energy source, to respond to psychological stresses, such as predators, or physiological stresses, such as a lack of food. So when caribou are in lichen-rich areas, they have low cortisol levels, which correlates with low nutritional and psychological stress and, conversely, when the caribou diet doesn’t include much lichen, cortisol levels become higher, which correlates to higher stress levels. More significantly, if caribou aren’t getting enough nutrition, progesterone levels plummet. “So what we think is happening in this landscape is that because

Handler Chris Zieminski and CK-9 marvin head out to look for wolf, moose and caribou scat in northeastern alberta.

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their food is limited—which is compromising the quality of their pregnancy—they’re birthing animals that are low in weight or otherwise unhealthy, which makes them much more vulnerable to any kind of mortality,” Wasser says. The link between declining caribou populations and human activity is Wasser’s observation that lichen tends to grow best in soil conditions that are most suitable for road building. “Where we see this is the positive relationship between the amount of lichen in an area and progesterone levels in pregnancy,” Wasser says. “If you’re in a lichen-rich area, then progesterone levels tend to be high early in the season and late in the season, when there are few people on the landscape. When there’s a lot of people on the landscape, that relationship becomes much weaker.” Since caribou view people as predators, they avoid the lichen-rich areas frequented by people during the busy winter oil-activity months. So what to do?

CK-9 Frehley enjoys playtime after the job’s done.

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can modify the habitat and are more susceptible to diseases such as chronic wasting disease. “So if you take the wolf out of the landscape, what is most likely to happen is an increase in the opportunities for deer to invade, which is going to significantly alter the habitat and bring diseases that could jump to caribou and potentially cause a much bigger problem because a disease can wipe out an entire population in one week.”

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“The fi rst thing we need to do is prevent any more loss of lichen,” Wasser says. “The second thing we need to do is try to enhance access to lichen that is already there by shifting where these roads are.” Since winter roads tend to be ice roads, Wasser says the latter measure isn’t as onerous as it sounds. Also, if moving ice roads doesn’t produce the desired effect in caribou physiology in the fi rst year, the industry can go back to what it was doing. “But if you take out all the predators, you can’t fi x that the next year,” Wasser notes.

KnOWLeDge Statoil is already taking action on some of the fi ndings of the scat dog study and testing ways to make predator travel along oil industry rights-ofway less attractive. “What we’ve done is scatter logs along parts of these [rights-of-way] so they become virtually impassible for man or wolves,” Shopik says. “Th is won’t prevent wolves going around

them through the bush, but it does address the opportunistic hunting pattern of the wolves.” The company has installed motiondetection cameras to monitor the effectiveness of this measure and reports positive results so far. Statoil is also a member of the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative, a collaborative industry partnership of seven producers with the common goal of improving the oilsands industry’s reputation by demonstrating and communicating environmental, social and economic performance and technological advancements. “For the last four years, our focus has been oilsands exploration wells,” Shopik says. “And once we get caught up on those, we’ll turn our attention to what we can do about the cutlines.” Spreading logs, planting trees, mounding (turning over the soil to create micro-sites for woody plant invasion)—all of these practices are designed to return industry-impacted areas to more natural states. But ecosystems are complex, and even the best

intentions and interventions can provide unexpected adverse consequences. It remains to be seen, for example, that if deer are the preferred prey of wolves and are attracted to man-made corridors, whether hindering freeflowing predator movement along rights-of-way might not adversely affect the caribou numbers by driving wolves into the forest. That said, one of the biggest obstacles to effective wildlife conservation, according to Wasser, are the advocates of one solution, such as wolf removal. Some stake their reputations or their research history or their jobs with government regulatory bodies on that solution. “Then it really becomes hard for them to say, ‘You know, we need to rethink this,’” he says. “And that’s what’s happening. There are still people pushing for [wolf removal] and they don’t want to hear anything else.... Instead, what we need is to work together to see which solutions make the most sense and start implementing them.”

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Alberta teenager receives acclaim For rEMEDIAtIoN reSeArCH By M eL a n I e co L L I S o n

HE research of a young scientist in remediation of oilsands tailings is receiving prestigious accolades and national recognition. And she can trace it all back to considering a dandelion growing out of the pavement—and her support systems, which, for her most recent project, included Syncrude Canada Ltd. and Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF). “The dandelion led me to question why it would thrive in a hydrocarbonbased environment,” says Kelcie Miller-Anderson, now a fi rst-year student in environmental science at the University of Alberta. “That led me to consider a science fair project that might create a novel remediation method with the potential to treat both mature fi ne tailings and the tailings water that results from oilsands production in northern Alberta.” According to the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation—which presented Miller-Anderson with both its 2012 Manning Young Canadian Innovation Award and its Manning Innovation Achievement Award—the research was literally a basement-lab approach in her home. “Using sample tailings and associated water supplied by [Syncrude], Kelcie treated the industrial waste with a residual fungus from the production of oyster mushrooms,” the Manning Foundation explains. “The mycelium [vegetative part of a fungus] would release enzymes that enable the breakdown of hydrocarbons, which will

then be absorbed by a fungi hyphae and transformed into fungal sugars. Her research showed a substantial reduction of petroleum hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids and pH levels, and an enhanced sodium absorption ratio of both the tailings and the tailings pond water—all major challenges to successful remediation.” Miller-Anderson’s remediation project nabbed four of the 100 major awards sponsored by organizations and companies, including the $2,500 Chancellor’s Club scholarship for the best overall project at the 2012 Calgary Youth Science Fair. She and 11 other students then headed to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in May, where she picked up another four awards and prize money of $7,000. Among those awards were the prestigious endowments from the Manning Foundation, which introduced its Young Canadian Program in 1992. It recognizes eight innovative projects selected at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, and then, after a second judging process, four of those receive the higher Manning Young Canadian Innovation Award. Miller-Anderson also had the opportunity to rub shoulders with the industry’s leading innovators at the Alberta ASTech awards gala. Each year, the ASTech Foundation, an organization established in 1989 to recognize the bright minds and creative organizations behind outstanding science and technology accomplishments, hosts a gala to celebrate industry achievements.

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As the Alberta student with the best showing at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, Miller-Anderson was invited to attend the awards gala through a sponsorship from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. “We invite the student to attend the ASTech awards gala to watch the [award winners’] stories and meet them because innovation inspires innovation,” explains Bev Jones, ASTech’s executive director. “Science and technology and innovation provide the solutions to current challenges.” The goal is to inspire young people to get involved in the industry, which is challenged in “attracting and retaining qualified human capital. There’s a shortage of willing workers— skilled labour—particularly in science and technology.”

MenTOrSHiP AnD inDUSTrY SUPPOrT Bonnie Drozdowski, lead of the reclamation program at AITF, first connected with Miller-Anderson during her Grade 10 science fair project on remediation. “She googled people doing remediation research, and her mom contacted me to ask if she could ask questions. I helped her on that project, read through her results and offered insights. Two years later, she had this idea and called and asked if I would help her. She asked if I could help her understand the industry and obtain some materials to use in her experiment.”

best pr actices Kelcie miller-anderson in the lab with syncrude researcher Geoff Halferdahl (left).

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How It works using sample tailings and associated water supplied by Syncrude canada Ltd., Bishop carroll High School student Kelcie Milleranderson treated the industrial waste with a residual fungus from the production of oyster mushrooms. the mycelium [vegetative part of a fungus] would release enzymes that enable the breakdown of hydrocarbons, which would then be absorbed by the fungi hyphae and transformed into fungal sugars. Her research showed a substantial reduction of petroleum hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids and pH levels, and an enhanced sodium absorption ratio of both the tailings and the tailings pond water. In addition to reducing the level of all major constituents of concern, the fungi were also shown to prompt the formation of a biofilm in all experiments. It was also shown to cause consolidation among some of the mature fine tailings. these are two additional findings that have potential in the objectives of remediation research. source: Ernest C. manning awards Foundation

Miller-Anderson revisited her interest in oilsands reclamation for her Grade 12 project—exploring the idea that the fungi that enable dandelions to be the first plants to grow on reclaimed oilsands lands might be a tool for remediating tailings. “Based on what Kelcie was hoping to do—grow the fungi in the tailings material—she would need to determine if she had achieved any type of remediation, so she had to know concentration of hydrocarbons before and after, and the chemistry of the material. We have several different labs and performed the analyses for her for free. Those are complicated analyses you study through a degree to understand. “[AITF] was very supportive because it takes opportunities to enhance new minds to be interested in science. I was very impressed with Kelcie’s level of understanding in the science field. The level was higher than high school, that’s for certain,” Drodowski says. In her reclamation research, Drozdowski works closely with Syncrude, so she connected MillerAnderson with a tailings expert and led her through the steps Syncrude requires to acquire samples of process water and mature fine tailings.

“One of our researchers spent an hour with her and said she had insightful questions about oilsands and tailings,” says Syncrude media relations adviser Cheryl Robb. “When we see passion like that at an early age, we like to encourage it. We have probably 200 co-op students on our site at any given time. [They] come from universities and colleges across Canada. It’s how we recruit people; they come back as employees.” Syncrude also recruits ideas. “Research and asking questions is a big part of who Syncrude is today,” Robb says. “We get four or five suggestions every week from folks, members of the public or at universities or vendors. We have a process we take them through to validate their ideas. We welcome them.” According to the Manning Foundation, Miller-Anderson’s research has provided enough encouragement for her to consider future additional environmental remediation research at the University of Alberta, which is home to the Centre for Oil Sands Innovation. As for her research itself, Manning Foundation founder and former president David Mitchell said that “even at the rudimentary stage of this innovative approach to solve present-day challenges, this project will be of interest to Canada’s energy sector.”

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A team approach TO TAiLingS By da n I eL a t r n K a

ANADA’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) has become the broadest industry-led initiative focused on accelerating environmental performance in Canada’s oilsands. Its vision is to deliver this accelerated environmental performance through industry-led collaboration and a focus on innovation, delivered through four environmental priority areas (EPAs): tailings, water, land and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In March 2013, the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium (OSTC), was rolled into COSIA. It was originally formed as a collaborative partnership between seven oilsands surfacemining companies to share tailings knowledge, research and technologies to meet the tailings challenge. Formed in December 2010, the OSTC was seen as highly progressive in its collaborative industry approach. Today, the former OSTC operates under COSIA’s broader umbrella as the Tailings EPA. In August 2012, the COSIA Tailings EPA and Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions released the results of a collaborative Oil Sands Tailings Technology Deployment

Roadmap and Action Plan project. The project searched, collected, organized and considered information on 549 tailings technologies in current use, or in a research or development stage. Included in the review were both Tailings EPA member-developed technologies, as well as technologies from third-party developers. Since the study results were released, the Tailings EPA has been reviewing some of the technologies that were highlighted as having potential. Alan Fair, director of the Tailings EPA, explains that those technologies developed or established commercially by EPA members are being further developed collaboratively, based on the sharing agreements within the EPA. Examples of the organization’s technology include Suncor Energy Inc.’s TRO technology and Syncrude Canada Ltd.’s centrifuge technology process. Technologies from third-party developers often come to the group as proposals. “Often we begin work with them as an EPA-led study to continue to progress it,” explains Fair. “Generally our support is money, which is always helpful,” Fair says,

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adding that additional support for third-party developers can come in the form of supplying materials like tailings, technical input and review, and small pilot lab work. “With the third-party technology developers, obviously there’s no expectation that they’re going to do all this out of the goodness of their heart,” adds Fair. While funded by all seven members of the Tailings EPA, the third-party developers must share their fi ndings and results with the whole group, but negotiate commercial terms separately with individual operators if their technologies are proven successful. “Under the Tailings EPA, everybody shares everything,” says Fair. “Anytime you can get a whole bunch of other people trying to solve your problems, that’s a good thing—you want to capitalize on that,” adds Fair. In 2013, the collective spend from the members of the Tailings EPA is projected to top 2011’s $74 million. “These are significant collaborations. We’re talking about multi tens of millions of dollars here,” says Fair. “This is a bold new collaborative step that’s really in many ways unprecedented anywhere.”

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syncrude’s Base mine lake is becoming the first commercial test of end-pit lake tailings reclamation.

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sIX PEoPLE MAkING A PosItIVE IMPACt oN tHE oIL AND GAs INDUstrY's ENVIroNMENtAL FootPrINt: DAN ALLAN canadian society for unconventional resources

CLARE DEMERSE the Pembina institute

GORD LAMBERT suncor energy inc.

JON MITCHELL cenovus energy inc.

ERIC NEWELL climate change and emissions Management corporation (cceMc)

DR. DAN WICKLUM canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil sands innovation alliance (cosia)

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Dan Allan

Clare Demerse

EXECUtIVE VICE-PrEsIDENt, CANADIAN soCIEt Y

DIrEC tor, FEDEr AL PoLICY,

For UNCoNVENtIoNAL rEsoUrCEs

tHE PEMBINA INstItUtE

wHat do you See aS tHe BIGGeSt enVIronMentaL cHaLLenGe For oIL and GaS ProducerS In aLBerta?

I don’t see environmental issues as a challenge, but more as an opportunity. There is absolutely no reason why the oil and gas industry can’t protect and reduce impacts on the environment while exploring [for] and producing energy. We have some of the most qualified people in the world working in the environmental industries. They provide world-class expertise and leadership, and are a key component to Alberta’s energy future.

I think that it’s fi nding ways to be competitive in a world where environmental performance and managing greenhouse gas pollution matter more and more. Policies like the low-carbon fuel standards going into effect in the European Union and California mean that Alberta’s energy industry needs to raise its game on greenhouse gases.

wHat do you See aS enVIronMentaL oPPortunItIeS For aLBerta’S oIL and GaS ProducerS?

Alberta should continue to be a world leader in environmental protection and regulatory compliance. Th is commitment will provide the province with a highly educated and skilled workforce in this sector. Their expertise will be sought after and valued globally.

One would be supporting, and then complying with, stronger greenhouse gas policies from either the federal or Alberta governments. Hitting the kind of targets we have recommended for the sector would cost less than $3 a barrel for a typical in situ oilsands facility. There are also opportunities for increased deployment of renewable energy technologies in Alberta’s oil and gas sector.

How HaVe you Seen InduStry eVoLVe to MItIGate or PreVent enVIronMentaL concernS?

The industry today recognizes that their activities must be transparent and that they must work in partnership with stakeholders and government. It is through this collaboration that they will achieve the social licence to operate.

We see some companies recognizing the problems with the status quo: that the perception of weak environmental performance is hurting the sector’s access to markets and making it much more diﬃcult to obtain the public support that companies need to compete successfully. Some companies have responded by calling for stronger policies, by supporting innovative technologies and by making greenhouse gas compliance costs much higher than the sector currently faces a critical part of their project planning (shadow carbon pricing). What I hope to see next is that policies that are now leading will become the norm across the sector.

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Gord Lambert

Jon Mitchell

EXECUtIVE ADVIsor, sUstAINABILIt Y AND

tEAM LEAD, ENVIroNMENt PoLICY AND str AtEGY,

INNoVAtIoN, sUNCor ENErGY INC.

CENoVUs ENErGY INC.

wHat do you See aS tHe BIGGeSt enVIronMentaL cHaLLenGe For oIL and GaS ProducerS In aLBerta?

The biggest challenge we face is meeting changing societal expectations for environmental performance. Th is includes issues such as climate change, tailings, water and land use. wHat do you See aS enVIronMentaL oPPortunItIeS For aLBerta’S oIL and GaS ProducerS?

One of the environmental opportunities we have is in improving our environmental performance. Th is can lead to greater eﬃciency, less waste and therefore lower costs if we pursue progress through collaboration and innovation.

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As an industry, we know we have to keep improving our performance in all areas of the environment. We’ve already made great strides in some areas—since 1990, the oilsands industry has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 per cent per barrel. We are continually focused on improving our performance, not just to minimize our environmental impact, but to increase the eﬃciency of our operations, which is good for our bottom line. The two go hand in hand. wHat do you See aS enVIronMentaL oPPortunItIeS For aLBerta’S oIL and GaS ProducerS?

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or PreVent enVIronMentaL concernS?

One great example is Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). COSIA is a globally leading collaboration model involving 14 major companies. Its mandate is to share intellectual property and accelerate the pace and scale of environmental performance improvement. We can do much more together versus independently. The COSIA website also has more information on projects that the industry is collaborating on (cosia.ca).

Alberta has really become a global leader in the development of new oil and gas technology. The vast majority of our oilsands deposits were largely thought to be inaccessible 20 years ago. Today, we use specialized methods developed here in Alberta to drill into those deep oilsands deposits, inject steam to separate the oil from the sand and then pump the heated oil to the surface. There remains limitless opportunity to continue advancing our technology to open up even more resources and significantly improve our environmental performance at the same time. How HaVe you Seen InduStry eVoLVe to MItIGate or PreVent enVIronMentaL concernS?

Oil and gas companies have responded to growing environmental scrutiny and tighter regulations by focusing more of their time, energy and research dollars on innovation that improves both operational eﬃciency and environmental performance. Today, the industry understands that taking care of business means taking care of the environment.

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Eric Newell

Dr. Dan Wicklum

CHAIr, CLIMAtE CHANGE AND EMIssIoNs

CHIEF EXECUtIVE, CANADA’s oIL sANDs

MANAGEMENt CorPor AtIoN (CCEMC)

INNoVAtIoN ALLIANCE (CosIA)

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By all projections, the world is going to need fossil fuels for decades to come. The biggest challenge the oil and gas industry faces today is reducing greenhouse gas emissions as we increase energy production to meet growing global demand. The situation becomes even more challenging as it takes 20-30 years to bring technology to market in the resource sector — significantly longer than other sectors.

COSIA has defi ned four environmental priority areas for COSIA: land, water, tailings and greenhouse gases. Our vision is to enable responsible and sustainable growth of the oilsands while accelerating environmental performance improvement through collaborative action. That’s why 14 companies representing about 90 per cent of oilsands production are sharing technologies. In our fi rst year, COSIA has put in place legal agreements that redefi ne the way that companies work together on environmental performance.

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In some respects, industry is becoming more collaborative and more inclined to work together to address shared research goals. Th is certainly applies to efforts to develop cleaner technology. As an example, one of our demonstration projects led by Suncor had six funding partners. For innovative clean tech research, collaboration provides an opportunity to leverage research funding and reduces risk to the partners.

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Our biggest opportunities exist in companies working together with leading thinkers from industry, government, academia, aboriginal groups, environmental groups and the wider public. COSIA’s unique model encourages companies to share with other members. To date, COSIA member companies have shared 446 distinct technologies and innovations, which cost over $700 million to develop. How HaVe you Seen InduStry eVoLVe to MItIGate or PreVent enVIronMentaL concernS?

Individual oilsands producers have invested significantly in addressing environmental concerns, but now is the time for larger collective action. We’ve seen collaboration in the oilsands industry grow over the last few years, and a number of predecessor organizations have been folded into COSIA, where their work can continue in a way that is better resourced and better focused, and where results and technology are shared among the 14 COSIA companies.

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New technology holds tremendous potential for the industry. The CCEMC is seeing many technologies that not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also provide additional benefits at the same time such as reduced water use or increased pipeline capacity. There [are] tremendous opportunities for companies who are interested in developing clean technology. I’ve read the Canadian clean tech industry is on track to surpass aerospace in size by 2016.

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Valâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drilling Ltd

Engineered Containment Inc (ECI)

raymac Environmental services

Balzac aB 403 226-0572 www.vdrill.com

calgary aB 403 251-3363 www.engineeredcontainment.com

nanaimo Bc 250 390-1032 www.raymac.com

westar Drilling Ltd

Enviro-Pads Containment systems Inc

rocky Mountain Containment

Sherwood Park aB 780 449-6905 www.westardrilling.ca

red deer aB 403 302-1806 www.enviro-pads.com

airdrie aB 403 948-6639 www.containment.ca

Flexahopper Plastics Ltd

rsI systems

Lethbridge aB 403 328-8146 www.flexahopper.com

calgary aB 403 651-9460 www.containmentsystems.com

Fortress oilfield services

stanchfield Bobcat & truck service

drayton Valley aB 780 621-6934

clive aB 403 784-3841

Hobblestone Enterprises Inc

tCA

Blackfoot aB 780 875-7282 www.hobblestoneplastics.com

taber aB 403 223-1113 www.thecontainmentanswer.com

Jk Containments

timberwolf Environmental services Ltd

Stoughton SK 306 736-9169 www.jkcontainments.com

Bonnyville aB 780 826-9806 www.timberwolfenviro.ca

katch kan Limited

western Canadian Containment (wCC)

edmonton aB 780 414-6083 www.katchkan.com

camrose aB 780 672-0323 www.wccservices.ca

edmonton aB 780 447-2222 www.wilbert.ca

Matrix C & P Maintenance Ltd

western Engineered Containment

Brooks aB 403 793-2124

Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B.E.s.t. Inc

Milepost Manufacturing

Leduc aB 780 986-9599 www.wecontain.com

CoNtAINMENt ProDUCts & sErVICEs AGI-Envirotank Biggar SK 306 948-5262 www.envirotank.com

Alberta wilbert sales Ltd

Spruce Grove aB 780 968-1447 www.albertasbestinc.com

Barrhead Plastics Barrhead aB 780 674-3892 www.barrheadplastics.com

Bristar Containment Industries Ltd wimborne aB 403 631-3453 www.bristarcontainment.com

Canadian Enviro-tub Inc Stettler aB 403 742-2967 www.enviro-tub.com

Century Environmental services Saskatoon SK 306 934-4549 www.century-environmental.com

Contain Enviro services Ltd cold Lake aB 780 639-6654 www.contain.ca

Containment solutions High Level aB 780 926-2133

East Central Painting And Coating services Inc

Sturgeon county aB 780 459-1030 www.milepost.ca

Millenium oilfield services oyen aB 403 664-3116 www.milleniumoilfieldservices.ca

MPI-Marmit Plastics Inc Grande Prairie aB 780 532-0366 www.marmitplastics.com

Nilex Inc edmonton aB 780 463-9535 www.nilex.com

Norwesco Canada Ltd

drayton Valley aB 780 542-3364 www.westernsolutions2000.com

western tank And Lining Ltd richmond Bc 604 241-9487 www.wtl.ca

Envirotrap systems alameda SK 306 483-7330 www.envirotrap.com

Hassco Industries Inc London on 519 451-3100 www.hassansteel.com

edmonton aB 780 474-7440 www.norwescocanada.com

Pol-E-Mar Inc

Paddle Plastics Ltd

Premier Plastics Ltd

Mayerthorpe aB 780 786-4408 www.paddleplastics.com

delta Bc 604 952-6686 www.premierplastics.com

Prodahl Environmental services Ltd

robert soper Ltd

Lloydminster SK 306 825-5933 www.prodahlenv.ca

Hamilton on 905 528-7936 www.sopers.com

wainwright aB 780 842-9552

western solutions 2000 Ltd

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nepean on 613 723-1541

College of the rockies cranbrook Bc 250 489-2751 www.cotr.bc.ca

Concordia University edmonton aB 780 479-8481 www.concordia.ab.ca

ECo Canada calgary aB 403 233-0748 www.eco.ca

EnviroLine calgary aB 403 263-3272 www.envirolinenews.ca

keyano College Fort McMurray aB 780 791-4800 www.keyano.ca

Alberta Mobile Combustion Inc

calgary aB 403 210-4453 www.sait-training-solutions.com

calgary aB 403 668-0844 www.albertamobilecombustion.com

sIAst woodland Campus

Alberta welltest Incinerators Ltd (AwI)

Prince albert SK 306 765-1500 www.siast.sk.ca

whitecourt aB 780 778-0960 www.awincinerators.com

University of Alberta

Albert’s Controls Ltd

edmonton aB 780 492-3116 www.extension.ualberta.ca

calgary aB 403 287-1310

University of Calgary

Saskatoon SK 306 242-1567 www.aquiferdist.com

Aquifer Distribution Ltd

calgary aB 403 220-8367 www.ucalgary.ca

Bardovue rentals Ltd

University of Lethbridge

camrose aB 780 678-2000 www.bardovuerentals.com

Lethbridge aB 403 329-2111 www.uleth.ca

BMP supplies Inc

University of regina

calgary aB 403 243-5973 www.bmpsupplies.com

regina SK 306 585-4111 www.uregina.ca

Broer services Ltd

University of saskatchewan

aylmer on 519 773-9261 www.broerservices.ca

Saskatoon SK 306 966-5788 www.usask.ca

Calgon Canada Inc Bolton on 905 857-9915 www.calgoncarbon.com

Lakeland College Vermilion aB 780 853-8544 www.lakelandc.ab.ca

Medicine Hat College Medicine Hat aB 403 529-3811 www.mhc.ab.ca

Calta Computer systems Ltd calgary aB 403 252-5094 www.calta.com

EQUIPMENt sALEs & rENtALs

Cheiron resources Ltd calgary aB 403 241-3276 www.cheiron-resources.com

Mount royal University

Commander Combustion

calgary aB 403 440-6111 www.mtroyal.ab.ca

NAIt

ABB Instrumentation & Control Products

edmonton aB 780 471-6248 www.nait.ca

Burlington on 905 639-8840 www.abb.ca

Northern Lights College

Absolute Enviro Burners

dawson creek Bc 250 782-5251 www.nlc.bc.ca

red deer aB 403 358-6696

ACG technology Ltd

olds College

woodbridge on 905 856-1414 www.acgtechnology.com

olds aB 403 556-8281 www.oldscollege.ab.ca

red Deer College red deer aB 403 342-3300 www.rdc.ab.ca

EDUCATION & TR AINING • EQUIPMENT SALES & RENTALS

EDUCAtIoN & trAINING

sAIt Polytechnic

Airdrie rental Equipment Ltd airdrie aB 403 948-3268 www.airdrierental.com

edmonton aB 780 916-4219 www.commandercombustion.com

Corix water systems Langley Bc 604 539-9399 www.corix.com

Cuttings Edge Energy Leduc aB 780 980-0028 www.cuttingsedgeenergy.com

D.V. rentals Inc drayton Valley aB 780 542-5845 www.dvrentals.ca

Davis Controls Ltd oakville on 905 829-2000 www.daviscontrols.com

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DCL International Inc

Massload technologies

rovax Inc

concord on 905 660-6450 www.dcl-inc.com

Saskatoon SK 306 242-2020 www.massload.com

edmonton aB 780 484-9010 www.rovaxinc.com

Dr scada Automation

Murray Latta Progressive Machine Inc

sirius Instrumentation And Controls Inc

calgary aB 403 264-5937

Surrey Bc 604 599-9598 www.mlpmachine.com

edmonton aB 780 436-6301 www.siriuscontrols.com

Nelson Bros oilfield services (1997) Ltd

smith Fuel services Ltd

drayton Valley aB 780 542-5777 www.nelsonbros.ab.ca

Fort St John Bc 250 785-3466

NEtZsCH Canada Inc.

calgary aB 403 266-5502 www.stealthacoustical.com

Enviro Vault Canada Ltd calgary aB 403 263-4433 www.envirovault.com

EnviroMed Detection services Mount Pearl nL 709 368-9000 www.enviromed.ca

Environmental Mats Prince George Bc 250 561-7061 www.envmats.ca

Frozen topsoil Cutting Ltd Fairview aB 780 835-5929 www.getftc.com

Genoil Inc calgary aB 403 750-3450 www.genoil.ca

Gorman-rupp of Canada Limited St thomas on 519 631-2870 www.grcanada.com

Haul-All Equipment Ltd Lethbridge aB 403 328-7719 www.haulall.com

HEF Petrophysical Consulting Inc calgary aB 403 269-3158 www.hef.com

Incinerator technology Inc red deer county aB 403 348-8088 www.incinerator-technology.com

Infratech Corporation whitecourt aB 780 778-4226 www.infratech.cc

ketek rentals edmonton aB 780 447-5050 www.ketek.ca

Lamtrac International Inc tracadie-Sheila nB 506 393-8512 www.lamtrac.com

Maple Leaf Environmental Equipment Ltd Brockville on 613 498-1876 www.mleequipment.com

calgary aB 403 990-7950 www.netzsch.ca

Nipisi Electric Ltd Slave Lake aB 780 849-3700 www.nedco.ca

on-site Facilities & recycling services rimbey aB 780 898-1845 www.onsitefacilities.ca

optimum Instruments Inc edmonton aB 780 450-0591 www.datadolphin.com

P.C. oilfield Construction supplies Ltd dawson creek Bc 250 782-5134 www.pcoilfield.com

Peak Energy services calgary aB 403 543-7325 www.peak-energy.com

Petro-techna International Ltd Mississauga on 905 277-5423 www.petro-techna.com

Primetech shredding Equipment Ltd Stony Plain aB 780 968-5469 www.prime-tech.com

rice Engineering & operating Ltd edmonton aB 780 469-1356 www.riceeng.com

rightway sanitation services wainwright aB 780 842-5593 www.rightwaysanitation.com

risley Equipment Inc Grande Prairie aB 780 532-3282 www.risleyequipment.com

rocky Mountain Environmental Ltd richmond Bc 604 275-1346 www.spilldepot.com

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stealth Acoustical & Emission Control Inc.

storMtEC AB Filtration Inc edmonton aB 780 485-2991 www.stormtec.ca

swift Environmental Equipment Ltd edmonton aB 780 922-6365 www.swiftenvironmental.com

terry ruddy sales edmonton aB 780 435-0324 www.terryruddysales.com

total Combustion Inc calgary aB 403 309-7731 www.tciburners.com

total Control systems Inc calgary aB 403 278-6960

Vermeer Canada Inc edmonton aB 780 484-3600 www.vermeercanada.com

wescorp Energy Inc calgary aB 403 206-3990 www.wescorpenergy.com

XYLEM water solutions Saskatoon SK 306 933-4849 www.xylemwatersolutions.com/ca

ABsA the pressure equipment safety authority edmonton aB 780 437-9100 www.absa.ca

Alberta Association of surface Land Agents edmonton aB 780 413-3185 www.aasla.com

Alberta Construction safety Association edmonton aB 780 453-3311 www.acsa-safety.org

Alberta Environment & sustainable resource Development

Canadian Association of Petroleum Production Accounting

edmonton aB 780 414-1510 www.usedoilrecycling.com

calgary aB 403 265-1533 www.cappa.org

Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association

Canadian Centre for Energy Information

APEGA

Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA)

edmonton aB 780 426-3990 www.apegga.org

calgary aB 403 221-8777 www.cepa.com

APEGs

Canadian Energy workers Association

regina SK 306 525-9547 www.apegs.sk.ca

edmonton aB 780 420-7887 www.cewa.ca

AsEt-Association of science & Engineering technology Professionals of Alberta

Canadian Fuels Association

edmonton aB 780 425-0626 www.aset.ab.ca

calgary aB 403 232-6066 www.cade.ca

Alberta Innovates – Energy & Environment solutions

Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors (CAGC)

Alberta Innovates – technology Futures edmonton aB 780 450-5111 www.albertainnovates.ca

Alberta Land surveyors’ Association edmonton aB 780 429-8805 www.alsa.ab.ca

Alberta onsite wastewater Management Association (AowMA) edmonton aB 780 489-7471 www.aowma.com

Alberta Pressure Vessel Manufacturers’ Association edmonton aB 780 438-4196 www.apvma.com

Alberta society of Professional Biologists edmonton aB 780 434-5765 www.aspb.ab.ca

calgary aB 403 266-7565 www.canadianfuels.ca

Canadian Heavy oil Association

CADE Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers

CAEPLA (Land owner Association)

calgary aB 403 297-7089 www.ai-ees.ca

calgary aB 403 263-7722 www.centreforenergy.com

Fort Saskatchewan aB 780 998-7453 www.industrialheartland.com

edmonton aB 780 427-2700 www.gov.ab.ca

calgary aB 403 269-1755 www.choa.ab.ca

Canadian Institute of resources Law (CIrL) calgary aB 403 220-3200 www.cirl.ca

regina SK 306 522-5000

Canadian oil sands Network for research Development CoNrAD calgary aB 403 210-5221 www.conrad.ab.ca

calgary aB 403 265-0045 www.cagc.ca

Canadian Association of oilwell Drilling Contractors calgary aB 403 264-4311 www.caodc.ca

Canadian society for Chemical Engineering (CsChE) Saskatoon SK 306 966-4771 www.chemeng.ca

Canadian society for Unconventional resources (CsUr)

Canadian Association of Petroleum Information specialists (CAPIs) calgary aB 403 231-0183

calgary aB 403 233-9298 www.csur.com

Canadian Association of Petroleum Land Administration (CAPLA)

Canadian society of Exploration Geophysicists (CsEG)

calgary aB 403 237-6635 www.caplacanada.org

Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen calgary aB 403 237-6635 www.landman.ca

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) calgary aB 403 267-1100 www.capp.ca

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GoVErNMENt & AssoCIAtIoNs

Alberta Used oil Management Association (AUoMA)

calgary aB 403 262-0015 www.cseg.ca

Canadian society of Petroleum Geologists (CsPG) calgary aB 403 264-5610 www.cspg.org

Canadian well Logging society calgary aB 403 269-9366 www.cwls.org

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Canadian wind Energy Association (CanwEA) ottawa oN

Lakeland Industry & Community Association

613 234-8716 www.canwea.ca

Bonnyville aB 780 812-2182 www.lica.ca

CanGEA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Canadian Geothermal Energy Association calgary aB 403 461-8802 www.cangea.ca

devon aB 780 987-4323 www.c-pic.org

Carbon Management Canada

Manitoba Environmental Industries Association (MEIA)

calgary aB 403 210-9784 www.carbonmanagement.ca

CErI (Canadian Energy research Institute) calgary aB 403 282-1231 www.ceri.ca

Clean Air strategic Alliance (CAsA) edmonton aB 780 427-9793 www.casahome.org

Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation

National Petrochemical & refiners Association washington dc 202 457-0480 www.npra.org

oil sands safety Association (ossA) Fort McMurray aB 780 791-4944 www.ossa-wb.ca

orphan well Association calgary aB 403 297-6416 www.orphanwell.ca

Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA)

Petroleum Accountants society of Canada

Fort McMurray aB 780 799-3947 www.cemaonline.ca

calgary aB 403 262-4744 www.petroleumaccountants.com

Energy Council of Canada ottawa oN

Petroleum services Association of Canada

Energy resources Conservation Board calgary aB 403 297-8311 www.ercb.ca

Environmental services Association of Alberta (EsAA) edmonton aB 780 429-6363 www.esaa.org

EPAC (Explorers & Producers Association of Canada) calgary aB 403 269-3454 www.explorersandproducers.ca

Freehold owners Association calgary aB 403 245-4438 www.fhoa.ca

Gas Processor Association Canada (GPAC) calgary aB 403 244-4487 www.gpacanada.com

Geoscientists Canada Burnaby Bc 604 412-4888 www.ccpg.ca

winnipeg MB 204 783-7090 www.meia.mb.ca

Sherwood Park aB 780 417-1920 www.ccemc.ca

613 232-8239 www.energy.ca

Leduc/Devon oilfield Historical society

calgary aB 403 264-4195 www.psac.ca

Pipe Line Contractors Association of Canada oakville on 905 847-9383 www.pipeline.ca

saskatchewan research Council (srC) Saskatoon SK 306 933-5400 www.src.sk.ca

society of Petroleum Engineers calgary aB 403 930-5454 www.spe.org

solar & sustainable Energy society of Canada (sEsCI) orleans on 613 824-1710 www.sesci.ca

sustainable Development technology Canada (sDtC) ottawa on 613 234-6313 www.sdtc.ca

the oil sands Developers Group (osDG) Fort McMurray aB 780 790-1999 www.oilsandsdevelopers.ca

thermal Insulation Association of Alberta calgary aB 780 457-9890 www.tiaa.cc

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Professional Petroleum Data Management Association

Access Analytical Laboratories Inc

calgary aB 403 660-7817 www.ppdm.org

calgary aB 403 291-4682 www.accesslabs.ca

recycling Council of Alberta

Advantage NDt supplies Ltd

Bluffton aB 403 843-6563 www.recycle.ab.ca

calgary aB 403 774-1238 www.advantagendt.com

saskatchewan Environmental Industry & Managers Association (sEIMA)

AGAt Laboratories

regina SK 306 543-1567 www.seima.sk.ca

saskatchewan Land surveyors Association regina SK 306 352-8999 www.slsa.sk.ca

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calgary aB 403 735-2005 www.agatlabs.com

ALs Environmental edmonton aB 780 413-5227 www.alsglobal.com

Altec Inspection Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 785-6295

ElectroGas Monitors Ltd

Loring tarcore Labs

calgary aB 403 235-8400 www.ametek.com

red deer aB 403 341-6167 www.electrogasmonitors.com

calgary aB 403 295-0588 www.tarcore.com

Apex technological Field services Ltd

Enviro Measure Inc

Maxxam Analytics Inc

calgary aB 403 818-2739 www.apextech.ca

edmonton aB 780 487-4334

Fort McMurray aB 780 791-9170 www.maxxamanalytics.com

Aqua Boring Ltd Grande Prairie aB 403 528-4000

St albert aB 780 418-0882 www.envirotrace.ca

Ashtead technology rentals

Envirorentals

Mississauga on 905 607-9639 www.ashtead-technology.com

calgary aB 403 276-2532 www.envirorentals.com

AsI Group Ltd

Equilibrium Environmental Inc

St catharines on 905 641-0941 www.asi-group.com

calgary aB 403 286-7706 www.eqm.ca

Calgary rock & Materials services Inc

Exova

calgary aB 403 735-5050 www.calgaryrock.ca

edmonton aB 780 438-5522 www.exova.com

Canadian safety Equipment Inc

Geosoft systems Inc

Mississauga on 800 265-0182 www.cdnsafety.com

nanaimo Bc 250 753-4475 www.geosoft.com

Can-Am Instruments Ltd

Global Engineering & testing Ltd

oakville on 905 829-0030 www.can-am.net

calgary aB 403 291-5091

Central Labs

Long Sault on 613 938-8956 www.greyline.com

red deer aB 403 348-8378 www.c-labs.ca

Charter Coating service (2000) Ltd calgary aB 403 250-3027 www.chartercoating.com

Chilako Drilling services coaldale aB 403 345-3710 www.chilako.com

Clearwater Environmental Consultants calgary aB 403 266-5366 www.clearwaterenv.ca

Concept Controls Inc calgary aB 403 208-1065 www.conceptcontrols.com

Eastern technical services Ltd St John’s nL 709 726-4622

ECo Electrical Products Inc Scarborough on 416 281-0518

Enviro trace Ltd

Greyline Instruments Inc

Hercules sLr (western) Inc edmonton aB 780 461-4800 www.herculesslr.com

Heron Instruments Inc Burlington on 800 331-2032

Hoskin scientific Ltd Vancouver Bc 604 872-7894 www.hoskin.ca

HsP Inc Long Sault on 613 932-3289 www.hsp.ca

kaizen Lab calgary aB 403 297-0868 www.kaizenenviro.com

Lineman’s testing Laboratories of Canada Ltd edmonton aB 780 434-4911 www.ltl.ca

MonItorInG & teStInG eQuIPMent & SerVIcecS

Ametek western research

Midland Geotechnical Ltd red deer aB 403 346-1920 www.midlandgeo.ca

Midwest Laboratories Canada Ltd calgary aB 403 250-3317 www.midwestlabscanada.com

Neegan technical services Ltd (Nts) Fort McMurray aB 780 715-2444 www.tuccaroinc.com

Non-Destructive testing Products Limited oakville on 905 844-4939

oak Environmental Inc calgary aB 403 250-9810 www.oakenviro.com

Peace Country technical services Ltd dawson creek Bc 250 782-6463

PENsErV Corp calgary aB 403 247-7240 www.penserv.ab.ca

Pioneer Groundwater Monitoring Products Ltd edmonton aB 780 907-5375 www.bailers.ca

Quatrosense Environmental Ltd richmond on 613 838-4005 www.qel.safety.com

rAE Engineering & Inspection Ltd edmonton aB 780 469-2401 www.raeengineering.ca

rosen Canada Ltd calgary aB 403 269-1190 www.roseninspection.net

rPC Laboratories Fredericton nB 506 452-1212 www.rpc.ca

scintrex Ltd toronto on 416 214-6726

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Underwritersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Laboratories of Canada Scarborough on 416 757-3611 www.ulc.ca

United tank Inspections Stettler aB 403 742-4747 www.unitedtank.ca

Valley Environmental services crowsnest Pass aB 403 563-0115

westport Innovations Inc Vancouver Bc 604 718-2000 www.westport.com

Zeotec Ltd edmonton aB 780 434-5810

rEMEDIAtIoN & rECLAMAtIoN CoNsULtING sErVICEs AMt VAC Ltd & Environmental services Medicine Hat aB 403 502-0742

Access Consulting Group whitehorse yt 867 668-6463 www.accessconsulting.ca

tekran Inc

Fort McMurray aB 780 791-2000 www.sethiresearch.com

north york on 416 449-3084 www.tekran.com

smoky river Environmental services

thermo Measure tech

Grande cache aB 780 827-6497

Gormley on 905 888-8808 www.thermomt.com

solinst Canada Ltd Georgetown on 905 873-2255 www.solinst.com

sonic soil sampling Inc concord on 905 660-0501

tanknology Canada Inc airdrie aB 403 948-3336 www.tanknology.ca

thermo ramsey Canada Gormley on 905 888-8808 www.thermo.com

triQuest Nondestructive testing Corp calgary aB 403 263-2216 www.triquestndt.com

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Accipter Ecological Management calgary aB 403 246-6734

Acres International Limited winnipeg MB 204 786-8751

Advanced Enviro edmonton aB 780 488-7926 www.cleanitgreenit.net

AECoM edmonton aB 780 488-6800 www.aecom.com

AHk Environmental & technology Ltd edmonton aB 780 904-3047 www.onsite-insight.ca

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sethi research & testing Ltd

Berry Environmental Inc

Chinook Environmental services Ltd

calgary aB 403 850-6966

Beaverlodge aB 780 354-3322

Amberg Corp-Environmental & regulatory Consultants

Bison Historical services Ltd

red deer aB 403 314-9176 www.chinook.com/enviro

Clearflow Enviro systems Group Inc

calgary aB 403 547-4956

calgary aB 403 283-8974 www.bisonhistorical.com

Amidyne Group

Blue ridge Environmental services Ltd

newmarket on 905 954-0841 amidynegroup.com

calgary aB 403 241-6738 www.blueridge.ca

An-Geo Environmental Consultants Ltd

Bluewater Environmental Inc

edmonton aB 780 450-3377 www.an-geo.com

Point edward on 519 337-0228 www.blueh2o.ca

Aperture Consulting Inc

Brilo Integrated Land services Ltd

calgary aB 403 852-9272 www.apertureconsulting.ca

Barrhead aB 780 305-4959

Apex Geoscience Ltd

calgary aB 403 266-5746 www.brittland.com

CrIMsoN Environmental Limited

Cactus Environmental services

Curtis Environmental Engineering Inc

camrose aB 780 679-8200

neilburg SK 306 823-4355 www.cactusenvironment.com

calgary aB 403 273-4980 www.curtisengineering.ca

Ark Envirotech Inc

Canadian Environmental Group Ltd

Descon Engineering Ltd

calgary aB 403 355-3655 www.arkenvirotech.ca

edmonton aB 780 426-2600

edmonton aB 780 465-8089

Arletta Environmental Consulting

Canadian Envirotec Inc

Digital Land resources

Sherwood Park aB 780 467-6629

Sherwood Park aB 780 975-9407

Canatec Associates International Ltd

Dillon Consulting Ltd

calgary aB 403 228-0962 www.members.home.net/canatec

calgary aB 403 215-8880 www.dillon.ca

Care-tech Environmental services Ltd

EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd

Senlac SK 306 228-4108

edmonton aB 780 451-2121 www.eba.ca

edmonton aB 780 439-5380 www.apexgeoscience.com

Arbor Consulting Ltd

calgary aB 403 910-2500 www.arletta.ca

Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd edmonton aB 780 451-7666 www.ae.ca

Athena Engineering Ltd edmonton aB 780 974-5148 www.athena-engineering.ca

Babkirk Land services Inc Fort St John Bc 250 772-5111

Ballast Environmental Consulting Ltd calgary aB 403 452-3110 www.ballastenvironmental.com

Bearstone Environmental solutions Inc calgary aB 403 984-9798 www.bearstoneenviro.com

Beckie Hydrogeologists (1990) Ltd regina SK 306 721-0846

Becquerel Laboratories Inc

calgary aB 403 263-2556 www.clifton.ca

Conestoga-rovers & Associates calgary aB 403 271-2000 www.craworld.com

Counterspil research Inc north Vancouver Bc 604 990-6944 Sherwood Park aB 780 719-4959

Cascade Environmental Consulting Ltd

Ceilidh Environmental Ltd calgary aB 403 371-9110

CEtAC - west calgary aB 403 777-9595 www.cetacwest.com

CH2M Hill Canada Ltd calgary aB 403 407-6000 www.ch2m.com

Chillborne Environmental Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 785-6417

Sherwood Park aB 780 410-1403 www.clearflowgroup.com

Clifton Associates Ltd

Britt Land services

edmonton aB 780 488-2325 www.cascadeenviro.ca

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Almond (Entire resource Consulting)

EcoMetrix Inc Brampton on 905 794-2325 www.ecometrix.ca

Eco-web Ecological Consulting Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 787-1110 www.eco-web.ca

EDI Environmental Dynamics Inc Grande Prairie aB 780 532-5375 www.edynamics.com

Egetec Enterprises Inc Barrie on 705 734-1090 www.egetec.ca

Mississauga on 905 826-3080 www.becquerellabs.com

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Elford Appraisal, Environmental & Consulting services Ltd calgary aB 403 230-4107 www.elfordgroup.com

Enviro scan technologies Inc edmonton aB 780 436-8430

Envirochem services Inc north Vancouver Bc 604 986-0233 www.envirochem.com

Enviroconsult Inc calgary aB 403 233-0035 www.enviroconsultinc.com

Enviro-Field services Inc calgary aB 403 234-9373

Environmental Diagnostics Inc calgary aB 403 212-3888 www.environmental-diagnostics.com

Environmental resource Management Group (ErM)

Fort McMurray aB 780 743-4290 www.hatfieldgroup.com

GCHEM Ltd Lloydminster aB 780 871-4668 www.gchem.ca

Gemini Corporation

Hatfield Consultants Partnership north Vancouver Bc 604 926-3261 www.hatfieldgroup.com

calgary aB 403 255-2006 www.geminicorp.ca

HCD oilfield services Ltd

Gemini twins Consulting Ltd

Hemmera

carseland aB 403 934-6454

calgary aB 403 264-0671 www.hemmera.com

GENIVAr calgary aB 403 271-4442 www.genivar.com

Geographic Dynamics Corp Sherwood Park aB 780 417-9626 www.gdc-online.com

Geoterra Integrated resource systems Ltd

Grande Prairie aB 780 837-7741

Hetek solutions Inc London on 519 659-1144 www.hetek.com

Highmark Environmental services Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 827-3024 www.hesl.ca

Human Environment Group calgary aB 403 266-2677 www.theheg.com

Ghostpine Environmental services Ltd

Hunter & Associates

calgary aB 403 225-8755

calgary aB 403 291-9238 www.ghostpine.com

Mississauga on 905 607-4120 www.hunter-gis.com

Envision Planning solutions Inc

Gould Environmental

calgary aB 403 241-8883

Industrial Forestry services Ltd

calgary aB 403 398-5028

Epic Environmental technologies Inc

Graecam Inc

Prince George Bc 250 564-4115 www.industrialforestry.ca

redvers SK 306 452-3200 www.epicenvirotech.com

calgary aB 403 244-3556

Erickson Environmental Portreeve SK 306 689-2732

Kindersley SK 306 463-1429 www.grassland.ca

ErIN Consulting Ltd

Green key solutions Inc

regina SK 306 789-9799 www.erinconsulting.sk.com

calgary aB 403 888-0096 www.greenkeysolutions.com

EssA technologies Ltd

Green tree resource Contracting Ltd

Vancouver Bc 604 733-2996 www.essa.com

dawson creek Bc 250 219-7676 www.greentreeresources.com

EwD Consulting Corp

Greenlight Environmental Consulting Inc

Fort St John Bc 250 262-6952 www.ewdcorp.com

red deer aB 403 506-0965 www.greenlightenvironmental.ca

First Nation reclamation Consulting Ltd

Ground Engineering Ltd

red earth creek aB 780 649-0060

regina SK 306 569-9075

Fugro Jacques Geosurveys Inc

Groundtrax Environmental services Inc

dartmouth nS 902 468-1130 www.fugro.com

whitehorse yt 867 667-2515

Envirotech Engineering

Hatfield Consultants

Lloydminster SK 780 871-8840

Fort nelson Bc 250 233-8797 www.geoterra.net

calgary aB 403 705-1926 www.erm.com

Garnier Environmental service

Grassland Environmental Inc

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Integrated Environments (2006) Ltd calgary aB 403 685-8390 www.int-env.ca

International water Consultants Ltd Barrie on 705 733-0111 www.iws.ca

Intrinsik Environmental sciences Inc calgary aB 403 237-0275 www.intrinsikscience.com

Iris Environmental systems Inc calgary aB 403 543-4455 www.irisenvironmental.ca

JDEL Associates Ltd edmonton aB 780 455-6710 www.jdel.ca

Jennar oilfield Consulting Grande Prairie aB 780 539-6152

Marquis Alliance Energy Group Inc

North-south Consultants Inc

red deer aB 403 347-9444 www.jskconsulting.ca

calgary aB 403 264-1588 www.marquisalliance.com

winnipeg MB 204 284-3366

keneco Environmental services (2000) Inc

Matrix solutions Inc

edmonton aB 780 481-9777 www.nwlr.ca

calgary aB 403 237-8137 www.kenecoenviro.com

kennedy Coulee reclamation Medicine Hat aB 403 581-9620

Northwind Land resources Inc

calgary aB 403 237-0606 www.matrix-solutions.com

Northwinds Environment Ltd

Meridian Environmental Inc

Fort St John Bc 250 785-3760

calgary aB 403 265-6597

Norwest Corporation

kerr wood Leidal Associates Ltd

Mesa Forestry & Environmental services Ltd

Burnaby Bc 604 294-2088

whitecourt aB 780 778-5823

klohn Crippen Berger Ltd

Mobile Liquid technology Corp

edmonton aB 780 444-0706 www.klohn.com

Fort St John Bc 250 787-1094

kostecky Environmental cochrane aB 403 932-3243

calgary aB 403 543-5353 www.mwhglobal.com

L H schwindt & Company Inc

Naeth Construction Ltd

Burlington on 905 632-9040

Paradise Hill SK 306 344-4637

Levelton Consultants Ltd

Nakeyan Environmental Consulting Inc

calgary aB 403 269-4141 www.levelton.com

okotoks aB 403 995-8208

LGL Ltd

edmonton aB 780 437-7800

Sidney Bc 250 656-0127 www.lgl.com

Lorrnel Consultants calgary aB 403 233-0900 www.lorrnel.com

Low Impact Environmental Ltd calgary aB 403 226-2897 www.lowimpact.ca

LtC Monarch Environmental Consulting Ltd toronto on 416 653-3727 www.ltcmonarch.com

Machibroda P Engineering Ltd Saskatoon SK 306 665-8444 www.machibroda.com

Macleod Institute for Environmental Analysis calgary aB 403 220-5271 www.macleodinstitute.com

Marila Environmental Inc donalda aB 403 740-3221 www.marila.ca

calgary aB 403 237-7763 www.norwestcorp.com

oAkrIDGE Environmental Engineering Inc dawson creek Bc 250 782-7790 www.oakridgeenvironmentalengineeringinc.ca

MwH Canada Inc

oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Associates Environmental Inc calgary aB 403 294-4200 www.oconnor-associates.com/default.asp

olenyk & Associates Ltd olds aB 403 556-4116

omni-tech Environmental services

Nature Zone Environmental solutions Inc

Baldonnel Bc 250 263-8522 www.omnitechenvironmental.ca

onysty Environmental services Ltd athabasca aB 780 213-0133

Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friend Environmental Big Valley aB 403 876-2226

Pace Dewatering systems

edmonton aB 780 463-1315

edmonton aB 780 433-7373 www.paceds.com

Nichols Environmental (Canada) Ltd

Pacific Environmental Consulting

Navus Environmental Inc

edmonton aB 780 484-3377 www.nicholsenvironmental.com

Vancouver Bc 604 980-3577 www.pacificenvironmentalbc.com

Nickpoint Environmental services Inc

Paragon soil & Environmental Consulting Inc

calgary aB 403 260-6702 www.nickpoint.ca

edmonton aB 780 434-0400 www.paragonsoil.com

Nor-Alta Environmental services Ltd

ParklandGEo

edmonton aB 780 486-4931 www.nor-alta.com

red deer aB 403 343-2428 www.parklandgeo.com

North of 60 Engineering Ltd

Parkvalley Consulting Ltd

canmore aB 403 263-2121 www.north60.com

calgary aB 403 269-3501 www.parkvalley.net

North Pine Environmental Ltd

Perma Earth Consulting Ltd

Lac La Biche aB 780 623-1572

North shore Environmental Consultants Sherwood Park aB 780 467-3354 www.northshoreenv.com

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Jsk Consulting Ltd

Grande Prairie aB 780 518-2818

Perspective Environmental Ltd calgary aB 403 718-9835 www.perspectiveenv.com

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Petroleum Enviro services

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sphere Environmental Ltd

edmonton aB 780 461-4941 www.petroleumenviro.com

Fairview aB 780 835-2682 www.roynorthern.com

okotoks aB 403 995-2137 www.sphereenvironmental.com

PHH ArC Environmental Ltd

rPs Energy

stantec Consulting Ltd

calgary aB 403 250-5722 www.phharcenv.com

calgary aB 403 265-7226 www.rpsgroup.com

edmonton aB 780 917-7000 www.stantec.com

Pinnacle Environmental

sandberg Laboratories Ltd

stIPA Environmental Consultants Inc

Sherwood Park aB 780 416-5349

Lethbridge aB 403 328-1133

Pisces Environmental Consulting services Ltd

schur-tek resources Ltd

Grande Prairie aB 780 933-0652 www.stipa.ca

red deer aB 403 347-5418 www.piscesenvironmental.com

Piteau Associates Engineering Ltd north Vancouver Bc 604 986-8551 www.piteau.com

Plateau Environmental Consulting Ltd caroline aB 403 722-2504

Pollutech Group of Companies Inc oakville on 905 847-0065

Pottinger Gaherty Environmental Consultants Ltd Vancouver Bc 604 682-3707 www.pggroup.com

Pratum resource Consultants Ltd calgary aB 403 717-0493 www.pratum.ca

Pro-Envirocore Consulting Inc calgary aB 403 519-1698

Quaternary Consultants Ltd

St albert aB 780 458-2067

sDs Environmental services Ltd wainwright aB 780 842-6365 www.sdsenvironmental.ca

seaway Energy services Inc calgary aB 403 235-4486 www.seawayenergy.com

sGs Canada Inc calgary aB 403 278-9748 www.sgs.com

sHArP Environmental (2000) Ltd Fairview aB 780 835-4646 www.sharp-environmental.com

silver tip Environmental Limited Blackfalds aB 877 745-8847 www.silvertipenvironmental.com

simcoe Engineering Group Ltd Pickering on 905 831-1715

sLr Consulting (Canada) Ltd

winnipeg MB 204 944-8325

calgary aB 403 266-2030 www.slrconsulting.com

rangeland Conservation service Ltd

sNC-Lavalin Environment

airdrie aB 403 912-3940 www.rangeland.co

rCL Environment Group Ltd calgary aB 403 284-0887

remediation Consulting Group Inc Sherwood Park aB 780 292-5900 www.rcgi.ca

richardson Environmental Consulting services athabasca aB 780 675-4077 www.richardsonenvironmental.com

calgary aB 403 266-2555 www.aquaterre.ca

sNC-Lavalin Morrow Environmental Burnaby Bc 604 515-5151 www.snclavalin.com

solid Ground Environmental edmonton aB 780 439-5327 www.solidgroundenviro.com

solstice Canada Corp edmonton aB 780 443-3431 www.solsticecanada.com

ridgeline Environment Ltd calgary aB 403 806-2380 www.ridgelinecanada.com

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summit Environmental Consultants calgary aB 403 538-4763 www.summit-environmental.com

tansley Associates Environmental sciences calgary aB 403 569-8566 www.tansleyaes.com

technosol Engineering Ltd calgary aB 403 238-6001 www.technosoleng.com

tera Environmental Consultants (Alta) Ltd calgary aB 403 265-2885 www.teraenv.com

terracon Geotechnique Ltd calgary aB 403 266-1150 www.terracon.ca

terralogix solutions Inc calgary aB 403 217-7787 www.terralogix.ca

terrax Environmental Management Ltd calgary aB 403 202-1215 www.terrax.ca

territorial Land Use Consultants Fort Smith nt 867 872-3742

tetra tech Inc calgary aB 403 203-3355 www.tetratech.com

thimm H F & Associates Ltd calgary aB 403 265-0792

thurber Engineering Ltd calgary aB 403 253-9217 www.thurber.ca

trace Associates Inc calgary aB 403 217-3747 www.traceassociates.ca

calgary aB 403 274-1000 www.gettrekin.com

triton Environmental Consultants Ltd Vancouver Bc 604 263-3500 www.triton-env.com

tymat Environmental Ltd

CoNtrACtors A & A Environmental Consultants Inc tarzwell on 705 642-9811 www.aaenvironmental.ca

A & B Environmental services Ltd taber aB 403 223-9472

A I M oilfield services

estevan SK 306 634-5553

wabasca aB 780 891-1003

Visser Consulting Ltd

Abandonrite

calgary aB 403 239-3797 www.visserconsulting.ca

calgary aB 403 263-6777 www.naborscanada.com

waterline resources Inc

ABCAN Forest Industries Inc

calgary aB 403 243-5611 www.waterlineresources.com

La crete aB 780 928-4110

westland Consulting

calgary aB 403 503-5260

edmonton aB 780 447-5052 www.westlandenvironmental.com

westwater Environmental Ltd calgary aB 403 233-0202 www.westwaterenv.com

westworth Associates Environmental Ltd

Ag-Enviro reclamation Inc

Aldale Construction Ltd drumheller aB 403 823-9292

All Around oilfield services Ltd Barrhead aB 780 674-6457 www.aaoilfield.com

edmonton aB 780 917-7000 www.wael.ca

All Peace Petroleum Ltd

whetzel Environomics Inc

All Pro Vegetation Management Ltd

edmonton aB 780 430-0963

calgary aB 403 257-0111

wHMIs Inc

Allied Flux reclaiming Ltd

edmonton aB 780 488-7359

edmonton aB 780 469-6253 www.recycleflux.com

wildlands Ecological Consulting Ltd red deer aB 403 346-1057

williams Engineering Canada Inc edmonton aB 780 424-2393 www.williamsengineering.com

worleyParsons

Grande Prairie aB 780 539-3533

Alstar oilfield Contractors Ltd Hinton aB 780 865-5938 www.alstaroc.com

Alvarez Vegetation Management whitecourt aB 780 778-3040

Aqua Laser Alberta Ltd edmonton aB 780 440-4762 www.aqualaser.com

Arrow Mulching Ltd edson aB 780 728-5982

Arts Excavating Medicine Hat aB 403 526-5269 www.artsexcavating.com

B & B wilson oilfield service Ltd Swan Hills aB 780 333-4502

B. Frid trucking Ltd Bentley aB 403 748-2615

Bad Boyz oilfield services Inc Fort Saskatchewan aB 780 998-7747

Badlands Hydro seeding duchess aB 403 378-4600

Bar Pipe Contracting Fairview aB 780 685-2600

Bare Contractors Ltd Fox creek aB 780 622-3743

Barsi Enterprises Mayerthorpe aB 780 786-4014

Battle river oilfield Construction Ltd Manning aB 780 836-3498 www.battleriveroilfield.com

Baywash oilfield services Inc Lloydminster aB 780 875-3221

BD Girardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trucking, tree Mulching & Bobcat services Morinville aB 780 939-6277

Bear slashing Inc Bonnyville aB 780 826-8048 www.bearslashing.com

calgary aB 403 247-0200 www.worleyparsons.com

Ambertec Ltd

wotherspoon Environmental Inc

Amigo trucking Inc

calgary aB 403 269-4351 www.wenv.com

Grande Prairie aB 780 518-4055

X-terra Environmental Consulting Ltd

edmonton aB 780 910-8598

chauvin aB 780 858-3794 www.benoitoilfield.ca

Annapolis Valley Peat Moss Co Ltd

Beretta Pipeline Construction Ltd

Lloydminster aB 780 875-1442 www.xtec.ca

Macklin SK 306 753-2717

Anchor Industries Ltd

Berwick nS 902 538-8022 www.avpeat.com

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trek Construction & Environmental services Ltd

Beaver Mulching Inc red deer county aB 403 358-7762 www.beavermulching.com

Benoit oilfield Construction (1997) Ltd

Lloydminster aB 780 875-6522 www.berettapipeline.com

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Biantco Environmental services Inc

Brown’s Industrial services

Champion Feed services Ltd wholesaler

Lethbridge aB 403 327-8170 www.biantco.com

cold Lake aB 780 639-2336 www.brownsindustrial.ca

Barrhead aB 780 674-2910 www.championfeeds.com

Big Eagle Enviromulch

Buchinski Enterprises Ltd

Charteris reclamation

camrose aB 780 672-3863

Manning aB 780 836-2535 www.buchinski.ca

Kerrobert SK 306 834-7755

Buck Creek oilfield services Ltd

Hinton aB 780 817-5565

Big west Machining & welding Ltd drayton Valley aB 780 514-3380 www.bigbitemulching.ca

Bill Dorma Construction Moosomin SK 306 532-4262

Biogenie srDC Inc Sherwood Park aB 780 416-0414

Black Earth Humic LP edmonton aB 780 453-2100 www.blackearth.com

drayton Valley aB 780 898-1789 www.buckcreekoilfield.com

Bunch Projects rocky Mountain House aB 403 729-3335 www.bunchprojects.com

Burton Custom Applicators tilley aB 403 377-0003

C & D oilfield Construction Ltd

rocky Mountain House aB 403 844-2736 www.geo-con.ca

Chopko remedial services Ltd drayton Valley aB 780 542-9148 www.chopkoremedial.com

Cirrus Environmental services Inc calgary aB 403 291-6442 www.cirrusenviro.com

camrose aB 780 672-7545 www.blairnelsonenterprises.com

C. Herman trucking Ltd

Clark Construction Ltd

Slave Lake aB 780 849-5399

Blight Native seeds

Can west Projects Inc

altario aB 403 552-2477 www.clarkconstruction.ca

oakville MB 204 267-2376

calgary aB 403 261-8890 www.canwestprojects.ca

Clarke Vegetation Control Ltd

Carlan services Ltd

Clayton Construction Co Ltd

whitecourt aB 780 778-4998 www.carlan.com

Lloydminster aB 780 875-8754 www.claytonconstruction.ca

Carson Energy services Ltd

Clean Creeks Environmental Ltd

regina SK 306 487-2281 www.carsonenergyservices.com

whitecourt aB 780 778-4441 www.cleancreeks.ca

Carson safety & Environmental services

Clean Harbors

Lampman SK 306 487-4121 www.carsonwelding.com

edmonton aB 780 451-6969 www.cleanharbors.com

Cat Bros oilfield Construction Ltd

Clear Path Mulchers Big Bite services Ltd

alix aB 403 747-2723 www.oildirectory.com/catbros

drayton Valley aB 780 542-6520 www.clearpathmulchers.com

Cee Gee southern Inc

Coltek Energy services Ltd

Brander Environmental strategies & technologies Inc

Medicine Hat aB 403 527-1054

Hamilton on 905 387-2378

Centerfire

Grande Prairie aB 780 538-9878 www.coltekenergy.com

Blueweed services edmonton aB 780 466-7900 www.blueweed.ca

Boden ted & son sand & Gravel edberg aB 780 877-3942

Borysiuk Contracting Inc Prince albert SK 306 763-0911 www.borysiukcontracting.ca

Bos oilfield service Ltd Glendon aB 780 635-4459

Bozco Enterprises Provost aB 780 753-3515 www.bozco.ca

Brocor Construction Ltd dawson creek Bc 250 782-3404 www.brocor.com

Broersen Construction Ltd Brooks aB 403 793-0688

whitecourt aB 780 778-1258

Fort McMurray aB 780 334-2277 www.centerfire.ca

Competition Environmental Ltd

Central Energy services

Complete Forestech Ltd

Gull Lake SK 306 672-3037 www.centralenergy.ca

Grande Prairie aB 780 513-1931

Challand Pipeline Ltd

whitecourt aB 780 778-4837

rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-2469 www.challand.ca

Chevallier Geo-Con Ltd

Hanna aB 403 854-6344

Blair Nelson Enterprises Ltd

Cher-Noble Enterprises Ltd

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Conrad’s water

reMedIatIon & recL aMatIon Corvet Construction (1977) Ltd

D Pearson Northern Ltd

DeFord Contracting Inc

red deer county aB 403 340-3535 www.corvet.ab.ca

Hythe aB 780 356-3087

edmonton aB 780 453-5841 www.deford-contracting.com

Count Lathom Contractors Ltd

tilley aB 403 377-2428 www.eidnet.org/local/darago

Denali Holdings

Bassano aB 403 501-4723

Courtesy Construction

Daski Contracting Ltd

Dene Boyz Contracting Ltd

dawson creek Bc 250 759-4100

Fort St John Bc 250 785-4831 www.daski.ca

assumption aB 780 321-2600

High Prairie aB 780 523-4458 www.coxcontractors.net

Dawn Lynn Construction Ltd Hinton aB 780 865-7266

wainwright aB 780 842-3661 www.denmax.ca

Cozy Cats Ltd

Day Construction Ltd

Dice Petroleum Maintenance Ltd

Lac La Biche aB 780 623-1926

carnduff SK 306 482-3244

dawson creek Bc 250 782-6577

Crow Enterprises Ltd

Daylight Lease Maintenance Inc

Dipper oilfield Developments

thorsby aB 780 789-3721 www.crowent.com

Hythe aB 780 356-2732

conklin aB 780 559-2244 www.dipperoilfield.com

Cruickshank

airdrie aB 403 948-5991 www.dbccon.com

Cox Contractors Ltd

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Lac La Biche aB 780 623-4378 www.cruickshankgroup.com

D & L rehn Contracting wildwood aB 780 325-2013 www.dlrehn.com

D B s Environmental Lethbridge aB 403 328-4833

Daragoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Custom Grading Ltd

DBC Contractors Ltd

DDk oilsite services taber aB 403 382-9701

Deep Basin Contracting Ltd Beaverlodge aB 780 354-2696

coronation aB 403 578-4478

Denmax Energy services

Diversified Glycol services Inc red deer aB 403 343-9555 www.diversifiedglycol.com

Do It reclamation (2005) Ponoka aB 403 783-8851

Earthmaster Environmental strategies Inc calgary aB 403 201-5111

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First Pass oilfield Contracting Inc

Garner Vegetation Control

Medicine Hat aB 403 504-4078

Grande Prairie aB 780 513-0400 www.firstpassoilfield.com

Grande Prairie aB 780 351-2019

Fisher Powerline Construction Ltd

Lacombe aB 403 782-9590 www.gflenv.com

Eco Venture Inc edmonton aB 780 432-2490 www.ecoventure.ca

Elliott Cats Ltd Brooks aB 403 377-2040

Empire Contracting Ltd calgary aB 403 236-5166

Enjay Contracting Inc Grande Prairie aB 780 402-1900

Enviro-Mulch Land Clearing solutions Fort St John Bc 250 262-5760 www.enviro-mulch.com

Environmental solutions remediation services calgary aB 403 215-6041 www.esrs.ca

ENVY oilfield services Inc Stettler aB 403 740-9144

Fort St John Bc 250 785-3569 www.florite.ca

Fort st John water Inc Fort St John Bc 250 785-0862 www.fsjwater.com

4 Lee Cat service Barrhead aB 780 674-7370

4-way Equipment rentals edmonton aB 780 464-4929 www.4-way.com

4-way Petroleum service St albert aB 780 458-7807

Fox Creek Excavating

Glen Unger trucking Ltd debolt aB 780 957-2238

Good to Go oilfield services Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 532-3693 www.goodtogoltd.com

Gordon Bros Construction Valleyview aB 780 524-3595 www.petro-west.com

Gourley Construction Ltd Vermilion aB 780 853-5087

Gower & Co Vegetation Management Inc Lloydminster aB 780 808-3141 www.gowerandcompany.com

Graham Brothers Construction Group Ltd edmonton aB 780 413-1725 www.grahambrothersconstruction.com

Frac rite Environmental Ltd

Graham Group Ltd

calgary aB 403 265-5533 www.fracrite.ca

calgary aB 403 570-5000 www.graham.ca

Frontline Integrated services Ltd

Grand slam oilfield services (2009) Ltd

calgary aB 403 720-6011 www.frontlineisl.com

Stettler aB 403 323-0194

oyen aB 403 664-0420 www.evergreenenviro.com

Full Circle reclamation

drumheller aB 403 823-2616

Exact oilfield Developing Ltd

Fundy Engineering & Consulting Ltd

Slave Lake aB 780 849-2211 www.exactoilfield.com

Saint John nB 506 635-1566 www.fundyeng.com

Excel Construction & Environmental Ltd

G & r remediation / Enviro Core

airdrie aB 403 948-4218

clive aB 403 314-3883 www.envirocoregr.ca

calgary aB 403 232-8200 www.eos1990.com

Eric Auger & sons Contracting wabasca aB 780 891-3751 www.ericaugerandsons.ca

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Excel Vegetation services tofield aB 780 446-8015

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Florite Environmental systems Inc

Fox creek aB 780 622-7675

Eos Pipeline & Facilities Inc

Fort McMurray aB 780 713-3474 www.fisherplc.ca

GFL Green For Life

donalda aB 403 883-2199

G k P Construction Ltd athabasca aB 780 675-4188

Grant’s oilfield services Inc

Greenskeepers Hydroseeding Sherwood Park aB 780 417-5296 www.greenskeepers.ca

Green-Zone Herbicide Applicators La crete aB 780 821-9535 www.greenzonealberta.ca

Greschner Enterprises (2007) Manning aB 780 836-2544

Brampton on 905 796-3200 www.exp.com

G Macritchie Forestry services Ltd

Gummow’s Construction Ltd/Alberta Pipeliner

whitecourt aB 780 778-9747

Swan Hills aB 780 333-4879

Fabcor

G stegen oilfield services

H F Nodes Construction Ltd

clairmont aB 780 532-3350 www.fabcor.ca

redcliff aB 403 548-7100

Pouce coupe Bc 250 786-5474

G w Cox Construction Ltd

Hamm Holdings Ltd

Lethbridge aB 403 328-1346

Kindersley SK 306 463-7112

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Lacombe aB 403 782-6671 www.hannasseeds.com

Harrow spraying & seeding Sundre aB 403 507-9315

Hayes Vegetation Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 538-4080

Hayspur Aviation Ltd Sedgewick aB 780 384-2165

HAZCo Environmental services calgary aB 403 297-0444 www.hazco.com

Head Construction Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 539-7580 www.isleygroup.ca

Heartland Mulching redwater aB 780 220-2575 www.mulcherpro.com

Heartland oilfield Contracting Ltd Beiseker aB 403 947-2724

Hi-Drive Contracting Ltd Hythe aB 780 356-3999

High Yield seeds & Forage unity SK 306 228-3137

Hightask Construction Ltd Sundre aB 403 556-7928

Hodgson Contracting Ltd drayton Valley aB 780 542-6655 www.hodgsoncontracting.com

Howellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Excavating Ltd Innisfail aB 403 227-3201 www.howellsexcavating.com

Hurricane Industries Ltd Lloydminster aB 780 875-5597 www.hurricanefoam.com

ICs Group Inc calgary aB 403 247-4440 www.icsgroup.ca

Integrated Vegetation solutions Inc Morinville aB 780 938-6008 www.integratedvegetation.com

Integrity reclamation seismic services Inc Sexsmith aB 780 568-4691 www.irsinc.ca

Interior reforestation Co Ltd cranbrook Bc 250 426-5300 www.intref.bc.ca

Ion Holdings Ltd

JuDan Enterprises Ltd Fort nelson Bc 250 774-7075 judanenterprises.tripod.com

k & r Inc Spruce Grove aB 780 963-5364 www.krinc.org

k & r services

Brooks aB 403 362-5878

Fairview aB 780 835-5585 www.krservices.ca

IoNA Contractors Ltd

k G Enterprises Ltd

calgary aB 403 294-0493 www.envisioninc.ca

Lamont aB 780 895-7554

IPAC services Corporation

red deer aB 403 347-2668

clairmont aB 780 532-7350 www.ipacservices.com

Iron Horse Earthworks calgary aB 403 217-2711 www.ironhorse.ca

Ivey International Inc campbell river Bc 250 923-6326 www.iveyinternational.com

J & w services Ltd edson aB 780 723-0314 www.buchinski.ca

J D Haggart Contracting Ltd carrot creek aB 780 712-1640 www.jdhaggartcontracting.ca

Jamal Contracting Inc Swift current SK 306 773-0400 www.jamalcontracting.com

Jensen Engineering Ltd olds aB 403 556-8755 www.sunpump.com

Jerry Mainil Ltd weyburn SK 306 842-5412 www.jerrymainilltd.com

Jim Moffatt Construction worsley aB 780 685-3600 www.petro-west.com

JLG Ball Enterprises Boyle aB 780 689-2395 www.jlgball.com

Jodek Industries Ltd Spruce View aB 403 728-3966 www.jodek.com

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kAM Excavating Ltd

kelly Panteluk Construction Ltd estevan SK 306 634-2166

kennedy oilfield services Ltd Stettler aB 403 742-5235

kenton Environmental Inc Lac La Biche aB 780 623-4545

kerrobert sand & Gravel (2004) Ltd Kerrobert SK 306 834-2858

kevin Crocker Contracting Ltd Bonanza aB 780 353-2616

kinsella water Hauling Ltd Innisfail aB 403 350-4135

klassen Blade Contracting Ltd Blackfalds aB 403 885-4560 www.treeeater.ca

kortech Calcium services Ltd edmonton aB 780 499-6633 www.kortech.ca

kowal Construction Alta Ltd crossfield aB 403 946-4450 www.kowalconstruction.ca

kuhn Compost Products acadia Valley aB 403 972-3740 www.iwkuhn.ab.ca

L & L oilfield Construction (1990) Ltd Lloydminster SK 306 825-6111 www.landloilfield.com

Lakeshore Contracting Ltd Fort McMurray aB 780 714-3665 www.lakeshorecontractingltd.com

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Lalonde Contracting oilfield Logging

MacDonald Brothers Cats

Hinton aB 780 865-0008

water Valley aB 403 637-2278

Larson Contracting Ltd

Mannville Enterprises

rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-4552

Mannville aB 780 763-3991

Last Chance trucking (1995) Ltd

Marnevic Construction Ltd

drayton Valley aB 780 542-7556 www.lctproformsystems.com

Fox creek aB 780 622-3994 www.marnevic.com

Laurier’s Enterprises Ltd

Maverick Construction Ltd

ardrossan aB 780 922-3479

Saskatoon SK 306 933-2950 www.maverickconstruction.ca

Lazer Energy services Inc rimbey aB 403 843-1065 www.lazerenergy.ca

Maximum Custom spraying

LeaseLink services Ltd

MB Mighty Mulching Ltd

cold Lake aB 780 826-0979 www.leaselinkservices.com

Bonnyville aB 780 826-9660

Lil Mule Logging Inc

neidpath SK 306 553-2319

red deer aB 403 318-4346

Lindale truck service Ltd

McCue Environmental Contracting

Muskwa Valley Ventures Ltd Fort nelson Bc 250 500-3478 www.muskwavalleyventures.ca

Nelson Environmental remediation Ltd Spruce Grove aB 780 960-3660 www.nerglobal.com

Nemanishen Contracting Ltd Langham SK 306 283-4818

Newforce Energy services Ltd drayton Valley aB 780 514-7882 www.newforceenergy.ca

Nitrogen technologies of Canada Grande Prairie aB 310-6487 www.nitrotech.ca

Norlin Construction Ltd

carnwood aB 780 621-0940

Little Chinook

McMeekin resources Ltd

Black diamond aB 403 933-2040

rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-2776

Little Valley Holdings Ltd

McNeil Construction

dawson creek Bc 250 759-4081

Grande cache aB 780 827-4444

L-k Vegetation Control

MDP oilfield services Ltd

Slave Lake aB 780 849-4000

Peace river aB 780 624-1980

LtD oilfield services Inc

Meek Contracting

redwater aB 780 942-4484 www.ltdoil.com

charlie Lake Bc 250 787-5285

Merit timber response Ltd

PAC Environmental reclamation services Ltd

LV reclamation & Maintenance

rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-3862

athabasca aB 780 675-2155

Meryle’s oilfield Construction Ltd

Panda tank & Vac truck services

Moosomin SK 306 435-3687

Grande Prairie aB 780 513-2655 www.pandatank.com

Lydell Group drayton Valley aB 780 542-6019 www.lydellgroup.ca

Lynx Creek steaming & oilfield services Ltd Hinton aB 780 865-0329 www.lynxcreek.ca

M & M resources Inc Fort nelson Bc 250 774-4862 www.mmresinc.com

Maccaferri Canada Ltd Vancouver Bc 604 683-4824 www.maccaferri-canada.com

McColl Bros Construction Ltd

edmonton aB 780 733-9100 www.mcel.ca

Vancouver Bc 604 603-9306 www.mccuecontracting.com

alix aB 403 782-0678

wilkie SK 306 843-3269

Morgan Construction & Environmental Ltd

Metro’s Contracting waskatenau aB 780 358-2351

Michalchuk Bros L Contractors Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 567-2050 www.mbrothers.ca

Millennium EMs solutions Ltd

Humboldt SK 306 682-4634

Northern rockies Environmental services Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 799-6121 www.nres-fsj.com

Northstar oilfield Maintenance Plamondon aB 780 798-2851

ossA terra Ltd Lethbridge aB 403 328-5882 www.ossaterra.ca

Paradox Access solutions Inc St albert aB 780 418-1955 www.paradoxaccess.com

Parkside oilfield services Ltd Kennedy SK 306 538-4487

edmonton aB 780 496-9048 www.mems.ca

Pasco Maintenance Ltd

Mitchco spraying Ltd

Paul’s road Maintenance

Lloydminster aB 780 808-0521 www.mitchcospraying.com

Stettler aB 403 742-6116

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Grande Prairie aB 780 538-4041

Fort St John Bc 250 785-3370 www.peaceriverholecementing.com

Pebble Pushers Gravel Co Blackfalds aB 403 588-4793

Permalta Ltd donnelly aB 780 925-2400

Petrowest Construction LP Fort McMurray aB 780 743-0486 www.petro-west.com

Petrowest Energy services Corp Grande Prairie aB 780 830-0881 www.petro-west.com

Phase remediation Inc dartmouth nS 902 468-3438

Picker People Ltd Ponoka aB 403 783-2720

Pipemaster oilfield services Inc Marsden SK 306 826-5550 www.pipemasteroilfield.ca

Pipeworx Ltd aldersyde aB 403 652-4403 www.pipeworx.ca

ProLINE Filter systems Inc

rCo Lease Mowing & Mulching

High river aB 403 652-5124

drayton Valley aB 780 542-5150 www.rcoleasemowingandmulching.com

Prospect resource services Ltd westerose aB 780 361-8220 www.prospect-services.ca

Prospector oilfield services Provost aB 780 753-8440

Proven seed Viterra Lethbridge aB 403 328-1451

Pruden Contracting Ltd Fort McMurray aB 780 714-6654 www.prudencl.ca

Quad L Enterprises Ltd

reclaimit Ltd Penhold aB 403 886-7886 www.reclaimit.ca

reclamation well site services Lethbridge aB 403 330-3889

reco Construction Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 532-0233 www.recotrenching.com

red oak Industries Inc Bruderheim aB 780 796-3851

Grande Prairie aB 780 539-4045

rehaume oilfield and Construction services

Quality seeds west

Busby aB 718 813-1744

Surrey Bc 604 574-7333

Quantum Murray edmonton aB 780 467-8881 www.quantummurray.com

Quantum Murray LP richmond Bc 604 270-7388 www.quantumgroup.ca

Quigley Contracting

remedX remediation services Inc calgary aB 403 209-0004 www.remedx.net

reno Contracting Ltd evansburg aB 780 727-2463

reon oilfield Contractors Ltd athabasca aB 780 675-2614

charlie Lake Bc 250 787-0254 www.petro-west.com

rhese’s Mulching

Quikway Air services Inc

rick’s Cat service

chauvin aB 780 858-3978

Brooks aB 403 362-5400 www.oilfieldcanada.com/quickway

ardrossan aB 780 998-1075

Prairie Earthmovers Inc

r. Pollitt oilfield Construction Ltd

Blairmore aB 403 627-6962

Leslieville aB 403 729-3778 www.rpollittoilfield.com

edmonton aB 780 435-3451 www.rigservicetools.com

Pokey trucking Ltd Falher aB 780 837-1958

Powell Cats Ltd

Prairie Habitats argyle MB 204 467-9371

Prairie Nibbler Inc coronation aB 403 578-3007 www.skweldingltd.com

Prairie western reclamation & Const Inc Bienfait SK 306 388-2652 www.prairiewestern.com

Precision oilfield services taber aB 403 223-2499

Prentice Creek Contracting Ltd rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-6884 www.prenticecreekcontracting.com

drayton Valley aB 780 542-1154

rig service tools Ltd

rindal oilfield Construction Ltd

Mallaig aB 780 635-2225

coronation aB 403 578-2097 www.rindaloilfieldconstruction.com

radium technologies Inc

ritchie Bros Construction Inc

Grande Prairie aB 780 538-9111 www.radiumtech.ca

Silver Valley aB 780 351-2345 www.ritchiebr.com

rai-Lynn trucking Ltd

riviere’s Construction Ltd

Lacombe aB 403 782-3548 www.railynntrucking.com

Pincher creek aB 403 627-4131 www.rivieresconstruction.ca

rattler Environmental Ltd

roberge Construction Ltd

duchess aB 403 501-4341 www.rattlerenviro.ca

Jarvie aB 780 954-2534

radium reclamation Ltd

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Peace river Hole Cementing And Exploration services Ltd

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reMedIatIon & recL aMatIon Bay tree aB 780 864-1269 www.rockyroadcontracting.com

rogers trucking Inc Fort St John Bc 250 785-3647 www.rogerstrucking.ca

roszko Construction Limited whitecourt aB 780 778-3961 www.roszkoconstruction.com

roy Larson Construction

sedona taber aB 403 223-3255 www.sedonaenterprises.com

sequoia Environmental calgary aB 403 272-5523 www.sequoiaenvironmental.com

setters & sons Construction Ltd

s.t.A.D. Enterprises (2000) Ltd

shield specialized Emergency services Inc

san Forestry Ltd

red deer aB 403 346-4937

edmonton aB 780 416-6082 www.shieldspecialized.com

Plamondon aB 780 798-3447 www.sanforestry.com

sienna Contracting Ltd

schreiber Construction Ltd

site rite Vegetation Management

Medicine Hat aB 403 527-9881

westlock aB 780 307-2435

olds aB 403 556-9266

schroder oilfield service

skocdopole Construction Ltd

wabasca aB 780 891-3109 www.schroderoilfield.com

Fort St John Bc 250 793-7027 www.dunneza.com

rycroft aB 780 774-2256 www.petro-west.com calgary aB 403 204-6096 www.stadenterprises.com

scorpion oilfield Construction & seismic services Ltd

eckville aB 403 746-5744 www.skocdopole.com

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sL oilfield Construction Ltd whitecourt aB 780 778-3763

sL rentals & sales Ltd Sylvan Lake aB 403 887-5011

smash & sons Contracting Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 538-3665

smith Earthmoving service craigmyle aB 403 665-2376

smith Logging Enterprises Ltd Breynat aB 780 771-2361

smoky river oilfield service Corp debolt aB 780 957-3100

speight Construction Inc rocky Mountain House aB 403 845-2548 www.speight.ca

srs Environmental services Medicine Hat aB 403 526-8822

standard General Inc St albert aB 780 459-6611 www.standardgeneraledmonton.ca

stobec Inc Sainte-adele Qc 450 436-2525 www.stobec.com

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terry’s Lease Maintenance Ltd

Urs Flint

calgary aB 403 232-8448 www.strikeenergy.com

Sylvan Lake aB 403 887-2755 www.tlmltd.ca

calgary aB 403 215-5499 www.ursflint.com

strydhorst Enterprises Ltd

thompson Bros (Constr) LP

V.E. Brandl Ltd

whitecourt aB 780 778-5145 www.strydhorst.com

Spruce Grove aB 780 962-1030 www.thompsonbros.com

Fort St John Bc 250 785-2916 www.vebrandl.com

stuber’s Cat service Ltd

three star Environmental

Valley C Construction Ltd

Barrhead aB 780 785-2173 www.stubers.ca

Shaunavon SK 306 297-2870 www.threestarenvironmental.com

Lloydminster aB 780 875-1659

sublatus Earthworks & Environmental

tiger-sul Products (Canada) Co

edmonton aB 780 432-2487 www.sublatus.ca

calgary aB 403 279-2616

edmonton aB 780 466-9934 www.veoliaes.com

top Gun well services Ltd

Vertex

success Abandonment services Ltd carnduff SK 306 482-3149

Brooks aB 403 362-3366 www.topgun-ab.ca

Sherwood Park aB 780 464-3295 www.vertex.ca

summit 1998 oilfield Ltd

top Notch oilfield Contracting Ltd

Viking Projects Ltd

Grimshaw aB 780 332-4115

charlie Lake Bc 250 793-2276 www.topnotch-treeclearing.com

Lacombe aB 403 782-2756 www.vikingprojects.ca

tr3 Energy Inc

Voice Construction Ltd

calgary aB 403 294-9339 www.tr3energy.com

edmonton aB 780 469-1351 www.voiceconstruction.com

calgary aB 403 802-3633 www.summitls.ca

tracks Contracting

w D A Consultants Inc

red deer aB 403 341-3088

sunshine Excavating Ltd

tri-Gen Construction Ltd

calgary aB 403 233-9222 www.wda-consultants.com

Magrath aB 403 758-3195

Boyle aB 780 689-3831 www.tri-genconstruction.com

summit Forest Management Ltd Smithers Bc 250 847-5125 www.summitforestmanagement.com

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t & t slashing Ltd Peace river aB 780 624-1854

t D Enviro Inc edmonton aB 780 440-6064

target Excavating Inc Provost aB 780 753-3931

target Vegetation Control Ltd athabasca aB 780 675-4995

taron Environmental solutions drayton Valley aB 780-542-9148 www.taronenvironmentalsolutions.com

tazzy kats (2006) Inc drayton Valley aB 780 542-4999 www.tazzykats.com

terex Environmental Group Inc calgary aB 403 240-4980 www.terexenvironmental.com

terra-tech remediation Ltd

Veolia Environmental services

ward Chemical edmonton aB 780 436-4832 www.wardchem.com

trigon Construction Ltd

watershed Corporation

Blue ridge aB 780 648-3922

calgary aB 403 238-0532

trilogy oilfield Ltd

waydex services LP

Provost aB 780 753-6097 www.trilogyrentals.ca

Grande Prairie aB 780 538-9101 www.waydexservicesinc.com

triple C Backhoe service Leduc aB 780 986-2542

weedmaster overall Vegetation Management Ltd

trium Environmental solutions Inc

Lloydminster SK 780 875-2685

cochrane aB 403 932-5014 www.triumsolutions.com

weir Construction Ltd

triwell oilfield Construction (1989) Ltd taber aB 403 223-3292

twB Construction Ltd Maidstone SK 306 893-4500

Unsurpassable Construction Ltd didsbury aB 403 994-0700 www.unsurpassableconstruction.com

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strike Energy services Inc

dunmore aB 403 527-1829 www.weirconstructionltd.com

welclean Land reclamation services Ltd Lloydminster aB 780 875-6354

wells Construction Ltd edmonton aB 780 488-8331 www.lafargenorthamerica.com

red deer county aB 403 347-9730

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west Can seal Coating Inc

Ace Vegetation Control service Ltd

Battery Direct Inc

didsbury aB 403 335-9137 www.west-cansealcoating.com

nisku aB 780 955-8980 www.acevegetation.com

edmonton aB 780 489-6175 www.batterydirect.com

west Country oilfield services & weed Control

ACI Acoustical Consultants Inc

Bird systems International

edmonton aB 780 414-6373 www.aciacoustical.com

108 Mile ranch Bc 250 644-1863 www.birdsystemsinternational.com

Advanced Coolant technologies

Bryco Environmental

edmonton aB 780 460-0777

Keswick on 416 567-1758 www.brycoenvironmental.ca

drayton Valley aB 780 542-9156 www.westcountry.ca

western Canadian Mulching Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 785-4685

western Canadian spill services Ltd (wCss) calgary aB 403 250-9606 www.wcss.ab.ca

wetaskiwin Aerial Applicators Ltd wetaskiwin aB 780 352-7833 www.wetairspray.com

wild Creek Contracting Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 787-0202

wilf’s oilfield services Ltd Swift current SK 306 773-4700

woodland Enterprises Spirit river aB 780 765-2496 www.woodlandenterprises.ca

(wwL) weaver welding Ltd Peace river aB 780 618-7522 www.weaverwelding.ca

Alara Consultants Inc edmonton aB 780 944-2557 www.alaraconsultants.com

Alberta Environmental rubber Products

C H B Packaging & Brokerage

Alnor Industries Ltd

Canamara United supply

Mississauga on 905 362-1029

calgary aB 403 265-4401 www.canamara-united.com

Alterna Biocarbon Prince George Bc 250 649-2460 www.alternabiocarbon.com

Altus Geomatics Limited Partnership edmonton aB 780 481-3399 www.altusgeomatics.com

AMr Process Inc Leduc aB 780 628-2932 www.amrprocess.com

Anaconda services

Animal Damage Control Sherwood Park aB 780 446-0204 www.animaldamagecontrol.ca

AP solutions resources Ltd edmonton aB 780 328-4628 www.apsr.ca

AtCo structures & Logistics Ltd

ABCAN Environmental Inc calgary aB 403 252-7404 www.invirodrum.com

Absolute occupational Health services Inc redcliff aB 403 581-9298

Absorbent Products Ltd

calgary aB 403 287-7278

Can-ross Environmental services Ltd oakville on 905 847-7190 www.canross.com

CEDA Environmental Fluid solutions edmonton aB 780 395-3500 www.cedagroup.com

Central water & Equipment services Ltd Saskatoon SK 306 975-1999 www.centralwater.net

Chem-Loc Environmental nisku aB 780 955-2951 www.makloc.com

CIttA Psychological services calgary aB 403 264-6886

Clean Earth solutions Ltd concord on 905 482-2149 www.cleanearthltd.com

calgary aB 403 292-7600 www.atcosl.com

Crown radiation

Atlantic offshore Medical services

D & G Polyethylene Products Ltd

St John’s nL 709 722-4074 www.aoms.nf.net

neilburg SK 306 823-4789 www.dgpolyproducts.com

AwI Filter

D & M Plastics Inc

calgary aB 403 255-7377 www.awifilter.com

Lacombe aB 403 782-4606 www.dmplastics.ca

Kamloops Bc 250 372-1600 www.absorbentproductsltd.com

Slave Lake aB 780 849-2581 www.bulldogcoatings.ca

edmonton aB 780 447-1994 www.aerpi.com

Peace river aB 780 618-4742

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red deer aB 403 348-9030

Epsilon Chemicals Ltd

HMI Industries

calgary aB 403 720-9300 www.daltechealth.com

edmonton aB 780 438-3040 www.epsilonchem.ca

red deer aB 403 346-4185 www.tervita.com

Davis LLP

Erscon Canada Inc

H2o systems Inc

Vancouver Bc 604 643-6426 www.davis.ca

calgary aB 403 247-1022 www.erscon.ca

Lucky Lake SK 306 858-2222 www.h2osystems.ca

Dobi Vegetation Management

EsG Filtration Ltd

H2s solutions Ltd

Grande Prairie aB 780 933-7501

calgary aB 403 571-0202 www.esgfiltration.com

Grande Prairie aB 780 513-4427

Evergreen solutions

Prince George Bc 250 561-1906

Doherty’s Hydraulic oil recycling edmonton aB 780 435-0134

Duncan & Craig edmonton aB 780 428-6036 www.dcllp.com

DYsM Noise Abatement nisku aB 780 450-9959 www.dysm.ca

Earth Care Products edmonton aB 780 468-5444 www.earthcareproducts.com

EcoChem Canada Ltd delia aB 403 364-2888 www.ecochem.com

Eco-Max Inc Slave Lake aB 780 849-5549

Ecopest Inc edmonton aB 780 448-2661 www.ecopest.ca

Emax Plastics Custom Molding Fort Saskatchewan aB 780 992-1793 www.emaxplastics.com

Emery Jamieson edmonton aB 780 426-5220 www.emeryjamieson.com

Enfor Consulting St John’s nL 709 895-9920 www.enfor.com

EnviroGuard Ltd calgary aB 403 235-6011 www.enviroguard.net

Enviro-Pro Geosynthetics Ltd Sherwood Park aB 780 417-1980 www.enviro-pro.ca

EPI Products Ltd

Interior Pest Control

calgary aB 403 273-8000 www.evergreensolutions.com

kamloops scrap Iron Ltd Kamloops Bc 250 554-3491

Fabricated Plastics Ltd Maple on 905 832-8161 www.fabricatedplastics.com

kimberly-Clark Mississauga on 800 255-6401 www.kc-safety.com

FDI Acoustics Inc calgary aB 403 547-9511 www.fdiacoustics.com

Lambourne Environmental Ltd

FFA Consultants in Acoustics and Noise Control Ltd calgary aB 403 508-4996 www.ffaacoustics.com

Fluid Energy Group Ltd calgary aB 403 463-5843 www.fluidenergygroup.com

GE oil & Gas Artificial Lift calgary aB 403 263-7166 www.geoilandgas.com

Golder Associates Ltd calgary aB 403 299-5600 www.golder.com

Guzzardi & Associates occupational Hygiene Consulting Inc chestermere aB 403 226-3866 www.guzzardiassociatesohc.com

HFP Acoustical Consultants Corp calgary aB 403 259-6600 www.hfpacoustical.com

Hi Point Industries (1991) Ltd Bishops Falls nL 709 258-6274 www.oilabsorbents.ca

HLs Ecolo odor Control systems worldwide toronto on 416 740-3900 www.hlsecolo.com

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Daltec occupational Health services

red deer county aB 403 348-8298 www.lambourne.ca

Landsolutions Inc calgary aB 403 290-0008 www.landsolutions.ca

Lawson Lundell LLP calgary aB 403 269-6900 www.lawsonlundell.com

Layfield Geosynthetics & Industrial Fabrics Ltd edmonton aB 780 453-6731 www.geomembranes.com

Lea-Der Coatings Spruce Grove aB 780 962-5060 www.lea-der.com

Lifemark occupational services edmonton aB 780 469-4199 www.lifemark.ca

Marksmen Vegetation Management Inc Lloydminster aB 780 875-1210 www.marksmeninc.com

Maxx North America services Ltd edmonton aB 780 482-4144 www.maxxnorthamerica.com

McCarthy tetrault calgary aB 403 260-3500 www.mccarthy.ca

edmonton aB 780 413-6285

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McLennan ross LLP

ogilvie & Company

relay Distributing

edmonton aB 780 482-9200 www.mross.com

edmonton aB 780 421-1818

Lloydminster SK 306 825-4322 www.relaydistributing.ca

Medicine river oil recyclers Ltd

calgary aB 403 236-2700 www.orkincanada.ca

eckville aB 403 746-3130 www.mror.ca

Melbern Vegetation Ltd Beaverlodge aB 780 354-8186 www.melbern.ca/

M-I swACo calgary aB 403 290-5300 www.miswaco.com

Miles Davison LLP calgary aB 403 298-0333 www.milesdavison.com

Miller thomson LLP calgary aB 403 298-2400 www.millerthomson.ca

MoJo trucking drayton Valley aB 780 542-5283 www.mojotrucking.net

msdsBinders Inc calgary aB 403 720-6737 www.msdsbinders.com

Napp Enterprises Ltd Prince George Bc 250 964-0007 www.napp.ca

Noise solutions Inc calgary aB 403 232-0916 www.noisesolutions.com

NorM survey of Canada Ltd Lacombe aB 403 348-3279 www.norm.co

Northern Climate soils Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 513-6203

Northwest Metal recycling

orkin Pest Control

oryan Industrial sales Ltd

revlyn Demolition & recycling edmonton aB 780 454-8167 www.revlyndemolitionrecyclingab.ca

nisku aB 780 466-0889 www.oryanindustrialsales.com

ridpest service Ltd

PECoFacet Canada

rotex supply

calgary aB 403 717-2891 www.pecofacet.com

edmonton aB 780 465-0637 www.rotexsupply.com

Pigmalion Environmental services

sci-tech Engineered Chemicals Ltd

Mississauga on 905 602-4349 www.pigmalion.ca

acheson aB 780 960-1200 www.scitechinc.ca

Pnewko

scorpion Plastics & Environmental solutions Inc

Lacombe aB 403 782-3782 www.pnewko.com

Polychem Products Ltd Saint-Jean-Sur-richelieu Qc 450 348-7392

Poulinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pest Control services edmonton aB 780 477-1671 www.poulins.ca

Precede occupational Health services red deer aB 403 348-8606 www.precedeohs.com

ProNorM red deer aB 403 307-4609 www.pronorm.ca

Pro-tec storage solutions Innisfail aB 403 227-5400 www.protecstorage.com

Quadra Chemicals (western) Ltd calgary aB 403 232-8130 www.quadrachemicals.com

randco Millwright services Ltd

Kamloops Bc 250 374-8522

Grande Prairie aB 780 538-0004 www.randcomillwright.com

Norton rose Canada LLP

recycle systems Company Inc, the

calgary aB 403 267-9411 www.nortonrose.com

nisku aB 780 955-2508 www.recyclesystems.com

Novamen Inc

recycling worx solutions Inc

red deer aB 403 348-5956 www.novamen.ca

calgary aB 403 720-9522 www.recyclingworx.ca

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Langley Bc 604 835-9148

St albert aB 780 651-3217 www.scorpionplastics.com

sealtech restorations Ltd calgary aB 403 253-5002 www.sealtechrestorations.com

silex Innovations Inc calgary aB 403 234-7225 www.silex.com

silver recovery systems of Canada Ltd edmonton aB 780 451-5454

siteguard Ltd edmonton aB 780 975-6209 www.siteguard.ca

solar turbines Canada Ltd edmonton aB 780 464-8900 www.solarturbines.com

spilkleen calgary aB 403 236-0015 www.spilkleen.com

spring Air Industrial Acoustics rocky View county aB 403 295-6110 www.springairacoustics.com

strad Energy services-Matting whitecourt aB 780 778-2552 www.stradenergy.com

sunstroke solar Ltd Bowden aB 403 506-3833 www.sunstrokesolar.com

Pro-N2 Ltd

red deer aB 403 877-5553 www.surf-tec.ca

Innisfail aB 403 227-4110

target recycling chemainus Bc 250 246-9886 www.targetrecycling.bc.ca

wAstE MANAGEMENt

ttI safety calgary aB 403 348-9030 www.ttisafety.com

Universal Environmental safety services Ltd drayton Valley aB 780 542-2122 www.uess.ca

Vertex resource Group Ltd Sherwood Park aB 780 985-2213 www.vertex.ca

west Penetone Inc edmonton aB 780 454-3919 www.westpenetone.com/en

western Alfalfa Milling Co Ltd norquay SK 306 594-2362 www.alfalfagreen.ca

western Health & safety Ltd calgary aB 403 241-6889 www.westernhealthandsafety.com

western Noise Control Ltd edmonton aB 780 423-2119 www.acousticsolutions.com

whitecourt transport Inc whitecourt aB 780 778-2226 www.whitecourttransport.com

Zazula Process Equipment Ltd calgary aB 403 244-0751 www.zazula.com

Zorbit technologies Inc Mississauga on 905 855-8500 www.peatsorb.com

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Contor terminals Inc Mississauga on 905 670-7771 www.contor.com

DynaMotive Energy systems Corp Vancouver Bc 604 267-6000 www.dynamotive.com

EnviroMetal technologies Inc waterloo on 519 746-2204 www.eti.ca

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Extech Environmental services Inc edmonton aB 780 457-5140

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Highland Maintenance Lloydminster SK 780 875-6882

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Peace recovery systems Ltd Fort St John Bc 250 785-3037

calgary aB 403 243-3877 www.safety-kleen.com

Universal Fluid Carriers (UFC) rocky rapids aB 780 514-4459

Versatech Products Inc richmond Bc 604 271-7500 www.versatech.com

wAstE trANsPortAtIoN & DIsPosAL Abacus Enterprises Inc Morinville aB 780 939-5395

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd Mississauga on 905 823-9040 www.aecl.ca

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Beaver regional waste Management Commission ryley aB 780 663-2038 www.beavermunicipal.com

BFI Canada edmonton aB 780 464-9401 www.bficanada.com

Callison Contracting Ltd Grovedale aB 780 539-6600

Canadian oil recycle Corp Spirit river aB 780 864-2140

Cementec Industries Inc calgary aB 403 720-6699 www.cementec.ca

Cen-Alta oilfield trucking Ltd Legal aB 780 961-4148 www.cen-altaoilfieldtrucking.com

Crude services Inc Stettler aB 403 742-4189 www.crudeservices.ca

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Porterco oilfield service Inc

edmonton aB 780 440-1825

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Slave Lake aB 780 805-4000

Deuce Disposal Ltd

J M B waste Management

Slave Lake aB 780 849-3334

Banff aB 403 762-2162 www.jmbwaste.ca

edmonton aB 780 451-1065 www.premierindustrial.com

E I L Environmental services edmonton aB 780 448-0866 www.eilenvironmental.com

Edmonton waste Management Centre of Excellence edmonton aB 780 496-7316 www.ewmce.com

EGoC Enviro Group of Companies Ltd Peace river aB 888 866-3835 www.egoc.ca

Element Environmental services Ltd acheson aB 780 948-0948 www.element-env.com

Envirosort Inc. calgary aB 403 509-2150 www.cleanharbors.com

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Gibson Energy calgary aB 403 206-4000 www.gibsons.com

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Heart river Holdings (2011) Ltd Peace river aB 780 618-1299

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Premier Industrial Ltd

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sumas Environmental services Inc

devon aB 780 987-3154

nisku aB 780 955-2390 www.sumas.net

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tero oilfield services Ltd

Lloydminster aB 780 875-0657 www.littledipper.ab.ca

wardlow aB 403 566-2590

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edmonton aB 780 352-2625 www.mclwaste.ca

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tri-Arrow Industrial recovery Inc

calgary aB 403 806-7000 www.newalta.com

Surrey Bc 604 597-7334 www.tri-arrow.com

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Langley Bc 604 534-9925 www.nwgypsum.com

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wellsite Environmental Inc

Bonnyville aB 780 812-2702

calgary aB 403 263-9011 www.wellsiteenvironmental.com

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Frobisher SK 306 486-2110 www.dpsmicrobial.com

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Parkson Corporation

red deer county aB 403 341-3642 www.denalioilfield.com

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clairmont aB 403 862-6662

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Mount Pearl nL 709 368-1552 www.abydoz.com

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Chemalta

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Flomax wastemanagement solutions whitecourt aB 780 778-9003

Flowmax waste Management whitecourt aB 780 706-3200

Ground Effects Energy Inc regina SK 306 352-1400 www.groundeffectsenergy.org

H2Flow Equipment Inc woodbridge on 905 264-2188 www.h2flow.com

Headworks Bio Canada Inc Victoria Bc 250 381-8850 www.headworksusa.com

Ivanhoe waste water rentals Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 538-3904 www.ivanhoewastewater.com

John Meunier Inc Saint-Laurent Qc 514 334-7230 www.johnmeunier.com

Longhorn oilfield services

edmonton aB 780 487-7025

dawson creek Bc 250 782-7353 www.longhornoil.ca

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edmonton aB 780 733-4900 www.chimowater.com

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Dart Environmental worsley aB 780 835-9735

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Procesco Inc calgary aB 403 238-9510

ProMinent Fluid Controls Ltd Guelph on 519 780-3006 www.prominent.ca

Pure Elements Environmental solutions de winton aB 403 995-2474 www.pure-elements.ca

recyclet Corporation calgary aB 403 685-0960 www.recyclet.com

remote sewer systems Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 625-1817 www.remotesewer.com

remote waste LP Sexsmith aB 780 537-3011 www.remotewaste.com

sAI Engineering edmonton aB 780 463-9000 www.saiwater.ca

snow Valley site solutions Inc Fernie Bc 250 430-7779 www.svssolutions.ca

sunset solar systems Ltd assiniboia SK 306 642-4240 www.pondmill.com

tecumseh Industries Ltd High river aB 403 601-2424 www.tecumsehcentrifuges.ca

terra water systems calgary aB 403 264-4882 www.precisiondrilling.com

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Davidson well Drilling Ltd

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one Eye Industries Inc

nanton aB 403 336-0028 www.wtsolutions.ca

estevan SK 306 634-4383

calgary aB 403 242-4221 www.oneeyeindustries.com

wastewater solutions Ltd

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Stony Plain aB 780 963-1949 www.wastewatergroup.ca

watchorn oilfield rentals & service Fairview aB 780 834-0055 www.watchornrentals.com

waterworks technologies Inc calgary aB 403 289-3198 www.waterworks.ca

western water wastewater calgary aB 403 287-0256 www.westernwww.ca

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Aquasolv Environmental services Ltd calgary aB 403 275-9584 www.aquasolv.ca

Bio Advanta Environmental solutions Inc edmonton aB 780 431-2890 www.bioadvanta.com

BoE Energy systems Ltd calgary aB 403 262-7344 www.boeenergy.com

Camenex Control systems Ltd edmonton aB 780 483-9439 www.camenex.com

Canadian Dewatering LP edmonton aB 780 400-2260 www.canadiandewatering.com

Contango strategies Ltd Saskatoon SK 306 978-3111 www.contangostrategies.com

Cordy oilfield services Inc calgary aB 403 266-2067 www.cordy.ca

EsI - Environmental sensors Inc

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FilterBoxx Packaged water solutions Inc.

orion rentals Ltd Innisfail aB 403 318-5393 www.orionrentals.ca

Parsons calgary aB 403 294-4200 www.parsons.com

calgary aB 403 203-4747 www.filterboxx.com

Perfection Pumping Corp

Focus Corporation

PtI Group Inc

calgary aB 403 263-8200 www.focus.ca

edmonton aB 780 463-8872 www.ptigroup.com

Global water Group Inc

r-Dale oilfield services Ltd

edmonton aB 780 485-0911 www.globalwateronline.com

calmar aB 780 985-2125 www.rdaleoilfield.com

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XCG Consultants Ltd

edmonton aB 780 447-4685 www.groundwatercontrol.com

edmonton aB 780 432-5770 www.xcg.com

Hillbilly Haulinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ltd Grande Prairie aB 780 539-3361 www.hillbillyhaulin.ca

Hydrogeological Consultants Ltd edmonton aB 780 483-7240 www.hcl.ca

IEt-Aquaresearch Ltd

red deer aB 403 318-9178

wAtEr wELL tEstING Aquarius water well testing Ltd Lacombe aB 403 506-4878

L & B water services Ltd Stony Plain aB 780 963-8134 www.lbwaterservices.ca

north Hatley Qc 819 842-2494 www.bactapur.com

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Infinity oilfield services Inc

summers Drilling Ltd

Sundre aB 403 860-4470 www.infinityoilfield.com

Liberty Energy services edson aB 780 725-2023 www.libertyenergyservices.ca

Mandel scientific Company Ltd Guelph on 519 763-2145 www.mandelscientific.com

Markland specialty Engineering Ltd Georgetown on 905 873-7791 www.sludgecontrols.com

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