N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage ...

There is not much to see at well A022. On the surface, it looks like any of the hundreds of other wells sunk deep below the boreal forest around Fort McMurray into the oil sands. Pipes run across the ...

PTTEP Canada will join N-Solv in its waterless bitumen extraction pilot in northern Alberta CALGARY—The Canadian subsidiary of Thai state-owned oil and gas firm PTT Public Co. Ltd., is joining Calgary ...

CALGARY — The Thai energy company that collapsed an oilsands joint venture with Norway’s Statoil ASA early this year is investing in a technology touted to produce bitumen without using water and with ...

Solvents are used to increase production and reduce steam-to-oil ratio in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Variations of SAGD that use solvents, such as expanding solvent (ES) SAGD or ...

The InfraTest Asphalt Analyzer provides an automated and enclosed method of performing solvent extractions to verify asphalt content on bituminous mixture, and rubber-modified bituminous mixtures, ...

The Carbon Capture and Conversion Center of Excellence (CCCC) at the School of Energy Resources (SER) recently migrated the coal solvent extraction pilot plant from the Energy Innovation Center (EIC) ...

The PAVELAB50 Automatic Closed-System Asphalt Analyzer is designed to separate bitumen, filler and aggregates from asphalt mixtures by closed-system solvent extraction. The PAVELAB50 Automatic ...