Theme Opportunities

Novel Hydrocarbon Extraction technology has the potential to reshape the way the oil and gas industry operates. Industry is constantly evaluating new and better methods to develop resources, and our goal is to find ways to make that process faster.

The Novel Hydrocarbon Extraction working group is focused on developing solutions to access and produce hydrocarbons while decreasing the environmental footprint of development, including well architectures/completions and artificial lift in all reservoirs.

Focus Areas

• Oilsands In Situ: Low emission extraction through transformative technologies such as solvent-dominated processes, electromagnetic heating, or subsurface heat generation

• Heavy Oil: Technologies that improve extraction in worm-holed reservoirs, including thermal, solvent, chemical, or CO2 EOR projects for cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) that emphasize gas capture vs. methane venting

• Light/Tight: Gas, CO2, Huff and Puff or other floods that help move beyond primary production to EOR methods that minimize declines, re-fracturing or down-spacing

• Oilsands Mining/Extraction: Material handling, aqueous / non-aqueous extraction through solvent or other novel processes for mined oilsands to reduce tailings, GHG emissions, and water consumption, allowing for timely reclamation after closure

• Technologies or downhole treatments that can be applied to restart/reinvigorate shut-in wells and/or minimize new disturbance by leveraging existing footprints

Tech Leader

Stephen Arseniuk

Director Innovation & New Opportunities

Pathways Alliance

Novel hydrocarbon extraction is a way of reimagining how we produce oil and gas in Canada; through collaboration we can improve efficiency, profitability and sustainability.