In August 2024, MAX Power Mining Corp. announced it has identified a prospective naturally occurring hydrogen resource play in southeast Saskatchewan featuring dozens of historical hydrogen showings, including grades up to 96.4%. As a result, through a series of permit applications, MAX Power assembled a 3,356 sq. km land package, the Rider Natural Hydrogen Project,… Continue reading MAX Power | Rider Natural Hydrogen Project
The Canada Growth Fund formed a partnership with Strathcona Resources to build CCS infrastructure on Strathcona’s steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands facilities across Saskatchewan and Alberta. The partnership was announced in July 2024. Through the SAGD CCS Partnership, Strathcona will seek to capture and permanently store up to two million tons of CO2 annually, with… Continue reading Strathcona | SAGD Oil Sands CCS
The Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Carbon Alpha announced in April 2024 plans to develop the North Star Project, a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. North Star builds upon the existing MLTC Bioenergy Centre by adding carbon capture and storage (CCS). The bioenergy center generates renewable power fuelled by waste… Continue reading MLTC | Carbon Alpha | North Star CDR Project
Genesis Fertilizers is developing an urea production project near Belle Plain, in Saskatchewan. The production of urea will use natural gas and include carbon capture components. About 75% of the urea would be sold to farmers, with the rest going to the open market. As of June 2024, the project, which has a CAD $2bn… Continue reading thyssenkrupp Uhde | Genesis Fertilizers | Integrated Fertilizer Complex
A CAD $500m Hydrogenation-Derived Renewable Diesel (HDRD) refinery in Canada, which will transform renewable feedstocks, including Canadian prairie-grown canola oil into renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. The company is targeting the end of 2023 for initial production, ramping up to full-scale in 2024.
A polygeneration facility in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, where large volumes of petcoke — a low-value product of heavy oil upgrading — would be gasified and used to produce a number of products, including hydrogen, steam, and sulphur, and to generate up to 500 MW in electricity to potentially displace aging coal-fired generation stations in Saskatchewan.… Continue reading Belle Plaine Integrated Polygeneration CCS Project
A CO2 geological storage site located near the town of Estevan in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Aquistore is used by owner/operator SaskPower as a dedicated geological storage option for CO2 captured from the nearby Boundary Dam Power Station CCS. The CO2 captured from Boundary Dam Unit 3 that is not sold for enhanced oil recovery is… Continue reading Aquistore Storage Project
A CCS project at Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. It became operational in 2014. The carbon capture facility is attached to the retrofitted 150 MW Power Unit #3 at Boundary Dam. Once captured, CO2 becomes a commodity and is sold to an oil company for Enhanced Oil Recovery purposes. This process of EOR… Continue reading Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Project
A commercial-scale NET Power plant by 8 Rivers Capital in the City of Estevan NET Power’s Allam-Fetvedt cycle technology combusts natural gas with oxygen, as opposed to air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive the turbine and produce zero emissions electricity. This cycle can hit the same efficiency of a traditional… Continue reading Estevan NET Power Plant
A development in southeast Saskatchewan injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground to increase oil production from two crude oil reservoirs. The project has captured over 40 million tonnes of CO2. Since 2019, it has stored 2.0 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Weyburn Unit produces primarily light oil. The Weyburn Unit has been in existence… Continue reading Weyburn Unit
