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Get the facts at the Weyburn Energy Innovation Centre (City Hall in Weyburn) on Wednesday December 12th at 7 pm, as Dr. Don Gendzwill of the University of Saskatchewan talks about seismicity, CO2 injection, enhanced oil recovery, and research from the Weyburn-Midale Project.  Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.  Click here for more details

What was once believed to be impossible became a reality on November 16th: micro sensor motes were successfully sent into a Canadian heavy oil reservoir through an injection well and retrieved via a production well. This exciting result is from a field trial conducted by the PI Innovation Centre – a joint venture of the Canadian Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) and its…

Bethany Kurz of the Energy and Environmental Research Centre in Grand Forks, North Dakota, gave a presentation in Weyburn on November 7th on hydraulic fracturing. The information, presented to a full house, covered the history, nature, science and technology of 'fracking' as it known in popular culture, and also addressed many of the public questions around this important hydrocarbon…

The Petroleum Technology Research Centre is pleased to begin a series of presentations for the general public at the Weyburn Energy Innovation Centre, located on the second floor at City Hall in Weyburn, on November 7th beginning at 7 PM.  The Weyburn Energy Innovation Centre was established in 2011 to help inform the people of Weyburn and area about the CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery…