Accessing Canadian Cleantech Innovation 

In March 2024, CRIN delivered virtual training to Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) and the Clean Energy Transition Sector Team within Global Affairs Canada. The goal was to enhance participants’ understanding of Canada's clean technologies for the oil and gas sector, helping them promote Canadian innovations globally. This initiative aligned with CRIN’s vision of promoting Canadian cleantech energy solutions and supporting the global energy transition. The 2 hour session was recorded and is made available for CRIN members.

Training covered a range of topics, starting with a global outlook on the oil and gas sector and insights into key international regulations, incentives, and market trends, including those in Canada and the United States. Participants explored Canada’s innovation ecosystem, which fosters cross-country collaboration between industry, innovators, investors, governments, and other stakeholders. The content highlighted important technologies that CRIN and its partners have developed, such as digital oil and gas solutions, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, methane abatement, land reclamation, water management technologies, and value-added products. The session focused on technologies ready for commercialization and export, empowering Trade Commissioners to promote these innovations effectively, which is essential for increasing Canada’s energy competitiveness, improving environmental performance, and enabling the export of "made-in-Canada" clean technologies. TCS is recognized as a critical partner in this effort by helping attract foreign investment and enabling Canadian technologies to have a positive global climate impact.

CRIN is a multi-sectoral network that accelerates the development and adoption of innovative technologies in Canada’s oil and gas industry. Since receiving $100 million in federal funding from ISED’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) in 2021, CRIN has funded over 60 projects across five provinces, leveraging $250 million in private sector investment. By 2033, CRIN anticipates these technology development efforts to result in emissions reductions, reductions in land disturbance, and reduced freshwater intensity. CRIN plays a key role in fostering partnerships between industry, innovators, and other stakeholders to accelerate technology commercialization and ensure environmental and economic benefits.

The network focuses on seven core technology themes: carbon capture and value-added products, cleaner fuels, methane monitoring and abatement, digital oil and gas solutions, water technology, land and wellsite reclamation, and novel hydrocarbon extraction methods. CRIN’s efforts have propelled numerous small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from later-stage technology development to commercial readiness, creating opportunities for these innovations to enter international markets. This collaboration aimed to promote technology adoption and enhance Canada’s economic potential by promoting sustainable, export-ready solutions to global markets.