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The PTRC and SANEDI are pleased to announce the official signing of a memorandum of understanding to share knowledge and develop research initiatives on carbon capture and storage.  SANEDI, through its South African Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage, is in the process of developing its first CCS pilot Project.  PTRC, with its extensive knowledge of CCS through two projects…

The Petroleum Technology Research Centre and the Illinois State Geological Survey today confirmed at the Greenhouse Gas Technologies Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, that a collaborative agreement had been signed between the two groups to share research work and collaborate, going forward, on CO2 deep saline storage.  Each organization have been managing research into deep saline CO2…

Kyle Worth, presenting the latest research findings into the Aquistore Project, announced to a packed house at the Greenhouse Gas Technologies Conference in Lausanne Switzerland that over 100,000 tonnes of CO2 was now in the targetted reservoir.  For a full press release, click here.

The PTRC was pleased to guide two Canadian Senators from the Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources on a tour of the Aquistore research site on October 7, 2016.  Senators Dennis Patterson and Percy Mockler visited SaskPower's Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Facility, and then travelled the two kilometres to the Aquistore injection wells to learn about the extensive…