The Estevan Chamber of Commerce is hosting Dan MacLean, CEO and President of Petroleum Technology Research Centre.

He will talk on a variety of items regarding the PTRC's past and current research in Saskatchewan, Including an update on the Aquistore CO2 Storage Project at Boundary Dam, "We will be attending the Estevan Chamber of Commerce lunch, where we will share a little bit more about what PTRC has been doing over the last few years."

MacLean gave a bit of a background on what he does, "The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1998 to facilitate research and development and demonstration projects into enhanced oil recovery and carbon storage, with the goals of improving recovery rates while reducing the environmental footprint of the oil and gas industry.  It is the PTRC's mission to realize 5 billion additional barrels of oil reserves from Saskatchewan's existing oil-in-place over five years of R&D and field trials of new and improved technologies."

"The PTRC has over 18 years of experience managing CO2 monitoring and storage -- formerly through its management of the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2Monitoring and Storage Project and a two year program called SaskCO2USER, which expanded upon the datasets created at Weyburn to further examine such things as wellbore integrity during CO2 storage, and minimum datasets for assuring safe storage in oilfields.  And how the PTRC was engaged in the same capacity in Estevan with Boundary Dam CO2 storage program with Aquistore. We have been involved with that project for the last 5 years and have been assigning the same researchers and applying what we learned from Weyburn."

MacLean goes on to share how important it is to hear another voice in the mix with regards to the oil and gas industry on how innovative Saskatchewan is.

The Chamber Lunch is Wednesday, April 17th at 11:45 am.