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October 2023
Our recent study on the Tank Methane Mitigation Technology Deployment has been published on the Canadian Emissions Reduction Innovation Network's website.
Canadian methane emissions reduction targets for the oil and gas sector are currently aiming for a 40% Canadian methane emissions reduction targets for the oil and gas sector are currently aiming for a 40% to 45% reduction from 2012 levels by 2025 and furthermore, a 75% reduction by 2030. In anticipation of such increasingly stringent methane reduction targets, the oil and gas sector in Canada is evaluating methane emissions mitigation pathways from the major emission sources at operating facilities, including production tank methane vents which are estimated to account for 19% of total onsite emissions. While tank methane emissions represent a considerable contribution to the total methane emissions, there remains a knowledge gap on the current opportunities and barriers to methane reduction from production tanks. The Tank Methane Mitigation Technology Deployment Study aims to address this knowledge gap by evaluating tank methane emissions and available tank methane abatement technologies through an economic and emissions reduction model.
You can access the report here.
Dec 2022
Our paper titled Understanding Variability in Petroleum Jet Fuel Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Inform Aviation Decarbonization was published in Nature Communication. You can access the paper for more details here.
October 2021
Congratulations to Lia Newitt for winning the Energy Awards poster competition at the CCEC 2021.
April 2021
Congratulations to MuhammadYousuf Jabbar for receiving the FGS Entrepreneurship (Training) Award.
March 2021
Congratulations to MuhammadYousuf Jabbar for receiving the the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Graduate Excellence Award and the 2021 SPE Canadian Educational Foundation (SPECEF) scholarship.
March 2021
Congratulations to Fang Li for receiving the Ursula and Herbert Zandmer Graduate Recruitment Scholarship for Winter 2021.
Dec 2020
Congratulations to MuhammadYousuf Jabbar for receiving the 2020 CEERE Scholarship.
Emily Nishikawa attended the CCUS Virtual Course for Asia-Oceania Region. Details can be found here.
July 2020
Our paper entitled "Statistically enhanced model of oil sands operations: Well-to-wheel comparison of in situ oil sands pathways" was published in Energy. Details can be found here.
June 2020
Our paper entitled "Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential" was published in Nature Climate Change. See details at Nature Climate Change and Springer Nature Sustainability Community.
Feb 2020
Our paper entitled "Quantifying variability in well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emission intensities of transportation fuels derived from Canadian oil sands mining operations" was published in Journal of Cleaner Production. Details can be found here.
Congratulations to Vaidehi Pitre for receiving the 2020 SSE TA award.