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Geothermal Co-Production Webinar - First steps towards a sustainable future.

6/28/2016

Tune in online August 19th for CanGEA's Co-Production webinar where we will discuss viable options of Geothermal/Petroleum energy co-generation, right at the wellhead. Co-production offers a sustainable "turn key" conversion of existing Oil and Gas drilling infrastructure by utilizing the hot production water resources already at surface as part of hydrocarbon extraction. It offers well owners and operators a holistic approach for harnessing and selling various forms of energy while diversifying their revenue streams and creating new jobs. Geothermal co-production can be the profitable and sustainable evolution of the Canadian oil and gas industry.

When? August 19th 10:30 - 12:45 MDT
Where? Webinar - Tune in from anywhere with internet connection.

Agenda:

Member Project Updates and Investor Financing Opportunities - Alison Thompson (CanGEA)
- Myriad of Profitable Uses for Geothermal Heat
Pioneering the Co-Production Future - Will Gosnold (University of North Dakota, Principal researcher for the recent USDOE/industry co-produced fluids project)
Discussion of Co-Production Development and Nuances - Maria Richards (President Elect – Geothermal Resources Council)
Leduc #1 Living Energy Project - The Canadian Co-Production frontier - Mitch Pomphrey (Leduc No.1 Discovery Centre)
Policy Making Power Profitable - Alex Kent (CanGEA)

North Dakota's first successful commercial enterprise to co-produce electricity using geothermal water from hydrocarbon production in the Williston Basin. Source: Kirby Baier of Continental Resources

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Dr. William D. Gosnold, the head researcher on the North Dakota Geothermal Power Demonstration Project, is Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at University of North Dakota. In 2006 he was awarded the title Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, the highest award of the University of North Dakota. Dr. Gosnold's research interests include continental heat flow, borehole paleoclimatology, global change, flood frequency analysis, crust and mantle rheology, gravity signatures of geological structures, geothermal energy, and tectonics.

Maria Richards is an authority on geothermal energy -- the use of the earth's natural heat to generate electrical power. SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory is a renowned national resource for the development of clean, green energy. She co-directed sophisticated mapping of North American geothermal resources that make it clear that vast geothermal resources reachable through current technology could replace and multiply the levels of energy currently produced in the United States - mostly by coal-fired power plants.

Leduc #1 Living Energy Project - Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre launched Canada’s first oil well-to-geothermal conversion with a plan to become the world’s first carbon neutral oil museum. The Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre is located in Devon AB, at the heritage site of the Leduc #1 Discovery well that catalyzed Alberta's petroleum industry. The Living Energy Project builds on this proud legacy, carrying Leduc #1’s energy innovation into the 21st Century. The project showcases Alberta’s innovation, green technologies and their deployment by oil firms, while creating a partnership opportunity between oil firms, renewable energy firms, and government.

Benefits of Co-Production:

Offset expensive and wasteful water disposal costs
CO2 credits
Opportunity to increase well and land value with added profits
Reduce Taxpayer Orphan Well liability if used in production
Continue Oil & Gas royalties from wells that continue to produce
Create jobs and retain employees
Clean usable power and heat to remote locations with transmission costs for off grid diesel.

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Geothermal 101 @ Bow Valley College

6/17/2016

CanGEA's chair Alison Thompson will give a presentation at Bow Valley College on June 12.

The presentation will cover:

Developing trends of geothermal energy in Alberta.
Steps to make geothermal a reality in Alberta.
Transferability of skills – which professions and skills will be in demand?
Geothermal industry overview.

When? July 12, 2016 - 10:00 am
Where? Bow Valley College

This event is not open to the public.

National Workshop on Public Confidence in Energy and Mining Development

6/7/2016

"This event will bring together a range of key stakeholders and Indigenous representatives to participate in a highly engaging program on public confidence."

For the upcoming Energy and Mines Ministers Conference the key message that CanGEA will be taking to this event is that energy projects need to include new opportunities for a new economy. Geothermal energy with it’s heat, power, and economic diversification abilities offers a complete path toward a sustainable economy.

When? June 9, 2016
Where? Winnipeg, MB

This event is by invitation only.

Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment

6/7/2016

“The purpose of this facilitated session is for you and other stakeholders to propose, and collectively discuss, climate change mitigation policy options, including carbon pricing. Federal and provincial working group representatives will be there to hear your ideas. The solutions you bring to this session will help the working groups develop options to be submitted to provincial, territorial and federal Ministers in September 2016. The Ministers will review the working groups’ reports and provide recommendations to First Ministers in Fall 2016, which will form the basis for the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change.”

CanGEA will be there to make sure that renewable heat is not forgotten. The governments, provincial and federal, have done a good job of supporting renewable power, but approximately 1/3rd of Canada’s GHG emissions are from the built environment. So Canada’s complete climate change mitigation strategy must include identifying, and incentivizing, sources of sustainable heat. A carbon tax is an excellent ‘stick’ to reduce wastefulness but unless there is a corresponding ‘carrot’ to encourage replacement of old heating systems with new technologies, the adoption of new, zero emission, technologies will be rather slow.

When? June 21, 2016
Where? Vancouver, BC

This event is not open to the public.

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