New Technology Magazine

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- Headwaters Incorporated has announced that HTI, a subsidiary of Headwaters, has entered into a technology alliance with Axens. Axens is recognized as one of the world’s leading providers of technologies, catalysts and services for oil refineries. The purpose of the alliance is to promote the combined use of Axens’ and HTI’s technologies to produce clean liquid fuels from residual (bottom-of-the-barrel) heavy oil.

DANBURY, Conn. -- Praxair Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. has announced it has entered into a long-term agreement with North West Redwater Partnership (NWR) to build, own and operate an air separation facility at NWR’s Sturgeon Refinery near Edmonton.

CALGARY, Alta. -- Aquatech, a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets, has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and supervision of installation and commissioning of a produced water evaporator system for Pengrowth Lindbergh Energy Corporation's 12,500 barrel per day (bpd) in situ oilsands production facility in the Cold Lake region of Alberta.

In 2012 Statoil increased oilsands production by more than 60 per cent and reduced CO2 intensity by almost 24 per cent. These results are published in the Statoil 2012 Oil Sands Report released this week.

HOUSTON, Tex. -- KBR has announced that Shell Canada Energy has selected KBR to perform off-site modularization and pipe fabrication at its Edmonton module facility. This historic project will use Shell Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to reduce CO₂ emissions at Shell’s upgrader which upgrades oil originating from Shell’s Athabasca oilsands operations.