In situ recovery operations depend on a complex interaction between reservoir behaviour, well performance, fluid movement, and technology effectiveness. Improving recovery while reducing costs, environmental impacts, and operational risk requires a thorough understanding of both recovery processes and subsurface systems.
InnoTech Alberta supports industry through applied research, technology development, testing, modelling, and collaborative innovation. Our capabilities help organizations optimize recovery processes, evaluate emerging technologies, better understand subsurface behaviour, and improve confidence in long-term asset performance.
Whether you’re advancing a new recovery process, addressing wellbore integrity challenges, or participating in collaborative research to evaluate emerging technologies, our team can help generate the technical evidence needed to support informed decisions and successful deployment.
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Improving recovery performance requires a clear understanding of reservoir behaviour, recovery mechanisms, and technology performance.
Our capabilities support the development, evaluation, and optimization of recovery technologies through laboratory experimentation, reservoir simulation, field validation, and applied research. We help organizations assess emerging recovery approaches, improve process efficiency, and generate the technical data needed to support development decisions.
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Maintaining well integrity and understanding subsurface performance are critical to safe, reliable, and responsible resource development.
We help organizations evaluate wellbore and subsurface risks, investigate performance challenges, assess remediation approaches, and improve confidence in long-term asset performance. Our work supports informed decisions related to well integrity, containment, methane mitigation, and asset retirement.
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Many of the technical challenges associated with in situ recovery are shared across industry and benefit from collaborative research and development.
The AACI program provides an industry-directed collaborative research platform focused on advancing in situ recovery technologies for heavy oil and bitumen resources. Through shared research, modelling, and technology evaluation, participants work together to improve recovery performance, evaluate emerging technologies, and address common technical challenges.
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