News Archive

• UK researcher tests core samples to determine CO2 flow characteristics
  Jul 22, 2016

  Research on core samples from CMC’s Field Research Station will help predict how far and how quickly a CO2 plume will expand within the storage reservoir, providing another tool to demonstrate carbon capture and storage is a safe, stable way to reduce carbon emissions. Dr. Sam Krevor, a Lecturer in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering

• Low Carbon Innovation Forum
  Jun 07, 2016

  Learn more about the development of clean technologies at the Low Carbon Innovation Forum. Free with your entry into the Global Petroleum Show

• Communication and engagement critical to success of CCS projects
  Oct 30, 2014

  Careful planning required when compensating communities for CCS projects says GHGT 12 conference speaker.

• The Containment Frontier
  Sep 29, 2014

  Reprinted from The PEG magazine, Fall edition, with permission from Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Author: Corinne Lutter, Member and Internal Communications Coordinator, APEGA More and more often, carbon dioxide and other fluids are being injected underground. Now, a new field station will allow research

• Aquifer-on-a-chip paper selected for top 10% collection
  Jul 19, 2013

  Congratulations to David Sinton and colleagues for the selection of their manuscript for publication in a special collection.

• Research will improve monitoring of CO2 injection process
  Dec 12, 2012

  Researchers are testing new geo-electric techniques that could complement seismic monitoring tools used for CCS.

• Researchers tap into CO2 storage potential of mine waste
  Nov 15, 2012

  Michael Hitch, at UBC's Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, says an economic value should be placed on the CO2 storage potential of mine waste.

• Field trip a learning experience says PhD student
  Sep 20, 2012

  HQP Shahin Moradi writes about a conference where the results of a controlled release experiment were discussed.

• CMC and ISEEE co-host CCS trade mission
  Aug 23, 2012

  CMC and the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy co-hosted a UK-Canada trade mission focused on CCS.

• Quest. The Energy Resources Conservation Board approves first commercial scale CCS project in Alberta
  Aug 13, 2012

  Nigel Bankes, CMC-funded researcher and Law Professor at the University of Calgary, blogs about the Energy Resources Conservation Boards recent approval of Shell's application for a commercial-scale CCS project.