What's New

The PTRC is pleased to announce the recent addition of two new staff members; Erik Nickel as a Senior Project Manager and Afton Leniuk as Junior Project Engineer. Erik joins the PTRC from the Saskatchewan Geological Survey and will head up the PTRC’s enhanced oil recovery research projects under the new Heavy Oil Research Network (HORNET). Afton Leniuk is a recent graduate of the…

The PTRC is very pleased to annonce the publication of a new booklet, commissioned by the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute in Australia, which addresses many of the key questions members of the general public have about CO2 storage.  The publication was launched April 29th at the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously…

The Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy today announced $400,000 in funding to the PTRC to build on 12 years of research into CO2 geolgocial storage.   Saskatchewan CO2 Oilfield Use for Storage and EOR Research (SaskCO2USER) builds on the 12 years of research conducted in the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, expanding research on storage, wellbore integrity,…

Innovation Saskatchewan Announced on March 6th funding for four different enhanced oil recovery projects, two of them through the PTRC.  Click here for the press release.