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Dan MacLean has informed the PTRC’s Board of Directors that he will be retiring at the end of 2021 from his position as CEO and President of the Petroleum Technology Research Centre.  Dan informed his staff of the decision in August, after PTRC’s July Board of Directors meeting.   “I arrived at PTRC four years ago, in May of 2017, and quickly came to appreciate the…

The University of Alberta's Dr. Alireza Rangriz Shokri, one of the key researchers conducting work for PTRC at the Aquistore project, has had his modeling work on the possibility of stored CO2 at the site being used to produce geothermal energy featured at ENERGY WEEK at the University of Alberta.   Dr. Shokri's final report -- which was commissioned by the PTRC and the Swiss…

The PDF versions of each presentation given at the April 14th webinar "Canadian Experience in Intermediate and Deep Subsurface CO2 Monitoring and Storage" are now available for download Click HERE for Dr. Rick Chalaturnyk's presentation Click HERE for Dr. Don Lawton's presentation

The Petroleum Technology Research Centre is excited by the recent announcement in the Government of Canada’s 2021-22 Budget that two major incentive programs have been launched to support carbon capture, utilization and storage in Canada. The development of a tax incentive to encourage large-scale emitters to capture their CO2 emissions is an enormous leap forward for many industries that…