From the days of the bucket wheel to truck-and-shovel mining to steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), the Canadian oil sands industry has consistently evolved as new technology has been introduced over the years to improve operations, drive efficiencies and cut costs.
It is with this frontier attitude of pioneering innovation that Calgary-based NSolv is forging ahead by introducing a new solvent technology that will eliminate the use of water in thermal oil sands operations and, it claims, significantly reduce the industry’s environmental footprint on the land.
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