MONTREAL, April 26, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- EARTH (Canada) Corporation (Environmental Applied Research Technology House (CDNX: EAR), is pleased to announce following a successful presentation of its technology at Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada, the company is featured in the current issue of Business Edge Magazine, April 25 - May 1, 2002.
Excerpts "Oil cleanup tool eyed by industry" Company seeks sites in Alberta to test system Story By: Mark Lowey
"Business Edge -- New technology to mop up oil spills and clean water used in heavy oil recovery operations is being hailed by its makers as having huge potential for Alberta's oilsands - and the environment... a huge potential application for the TORR technology is at Alberta oilsands projects that use steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to recover tar-like heavy oil. SAGD involves injecting pressurized steam underground to force the oil out of rock formations and to the surface... To make the steam, oilsands operators typically pipe in huge amounts of fresh water from a nearby river or lake, or tap groundwater from an underground aquifer...But some landowners, especially in regions of Alberta affected by drought conditions, are objecting to proposed new SAGD operations because of the massive volumes of water they would consume...companies are pumping 206 billion litres of water annually into oil-bearing formations. That volume would supply Red Deer, the province's third-largest city, with water for 20 years..."
"Some SAGD operators have started building water-treatment plants onsite so they can recycle water... Alberta Energy Company (NYSE:ECA) (now EnCana Corp.) briefly tested a TORR unit last November at its pilot SAGD oilsands plant at Foster Creek in the Cold Lake air weapons range. Even with the add-on equipment, operating costs for TORR are lower than other oil-and-water separation methods that use heat or chemicals..." (c) 2000 Business Edge Inc.
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About EARTH (Canada)
EARTH (Canada) Corporation listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange [CDNX: EAR], is a world leader in the development of leading edge technologies for hydrocarbon remediation. Through the use of RPA(r) and TORR(tm), EARTH's mission is to promote worldwide sustainable environmental technologies for treating and preventing oil pollution problems. Further information is available at www.earthcanada.com.