SRC Centre for the Demonstration of Emissions Reductions
The first of its kind in North America, the Centre for the Demonstration of Emissions Reductions (C-DER) will be a test and verification facility at SRC to help industry manage and reduce its GHG emissions.
The Institution:
The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is one of Canada’s leading providers of applied research, development and demonstration (RD&D) and technology commercialization. With more than 350 employees, over $70 million in annual revenue and 69 years of RD&D experience, SRC provides products and services to its 1,900 clients in 20 countries around the world.
The Achievement:
In order to sustain oil and gas production, new technologies will be required to meet increasingly stringent regulations and public expectations associated with industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While carbon dioxide gas is a major concern, there is also an increased need to focus on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Industry is seeking effective new technologies to reduce emissions in line with emerging regulations.
The first of its kind in North America, the Centre for the Demonstration of Emissions Reductions (C-DER) will be a test and verification facility at SRC to help industry manage and reduce its GHG emissions. When fully operational, C-DER will be able to test, verify and demonstrate new GHG emissions-reducing technologies with a specific focus on methane in the petroleum industry, but also hydrogen sulphide as well as mono-nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides from oil and gas and other industries.
Since C-DER is enhancing and expanding on already existing capabilities at SRC, some services, such as GHG emissions detection, analysis and monitoring, will be made available to industry and government immediately. Additional capabilities and services will be developed and made available as the C-DER platform expands and evolves. In order to conduct field testing, a mobile facility is planned that can be connected to sources such as wells, tanks or production batteries and will work with equipment attached to operating wells.
The Team:
The creation of C-DER came about thanks, to the diligence of many science professionals among them a number of APEGS members including Kelly Knorr, P. Eng. (Operations Manager, Energy Division), Darren Anweiler, P. Eng. (Manager, Process Development, Energy Division) and Muhammad Imran, P. Eng. (Manager, EOR Field Development, Energy Division.)