Oil recovery focus of new Business-Led NCE

The government has announced yet another winner from the recent Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE) program.The Sustainable Technologies for Energy Production Systems (STEPS) is based in Regina and led by Dr Carolyn Kim Preston of the Petroleum Recovery Research Centre. It will receive $10.5 million over four years to improve access to hydrocarbon resources by developing technologies for extracting oil that is currently unrecoverable using existing extraction methods....