Agenda

• • Day - 1 - March 20
  • Day - 2 - March 21
  • Day - 3 - March 22

  

  8:15 AM	Workshop A: Water management in oil sands mining, University of Alberta
  10:30 AM	EPCOR Sponsored Tour for Students
  1:00 AM	EPCOR Sponsored Tour Professionals
  1:15 PM	Workshop B Water management at in-situ oil sands facilities, University of Alberta
  03:00 PM	EPCOR Sponsored Tours – Professionals
  06:00 PM	EPCOR Welcome Reception, Devonian Room

  

  8:00 – 8:15	Welcome Address/Introduction
  	Hydrogeological Cycle in Oil Sands
  8:15 – 8:45	CAPP/OSDG Water Conservation Efficiency & Productivity Plan for the upstream oil & gas and oil sands industry Michael Bender Golder Associates (CAPP, OSDG)
  8:45 – 9:15	Bringing context to the oil sands debate – understanding the role of nature and its environmental effects Fennell, J., Gibson J., Castrillón, F., Birks, J., Hansen, B., Moncur, M., Oiffer, A. and Yi, Y.,WorleyParsons Canada & Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
  9:15 – 9:45	Seepage of Process-Affected Tailings Pond Water: Long-term Field Observations and Remedial and Operational Implications Kone, M., Holden, A.A., Mayer, K.U., Martin, J., Ulrich, A.C. University of Alberta, University of British Columbia
  9:45 – 10:00	Networking Break
  	Water Quality in Tailings Operations
  10:00 – 10:30	Impact of salinity on tailings flocculation Heather Kaminsky, Andrea Sedgwick, John Clark, Aileen Fan Total E&P Canada
  10:30 – 11:00	Influence of Pore Water Chemistry on the Rate of Evaporation D.G.Fredlund, J. Stianson, F. Junqueira, and J. Stone Golder & Associates
  11:00 – 12:00	Keynote Speaker – Dan Wicklum, Chief Executive, COSIA. Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA): A new level of collaboration in the oil sands industry that builds upon the successes of CONRAD, OSLI, and OSTC.
  12:00 – 1:00	LUNCH
  	Technology Development – Field Pilot Tests
  1:00 – 1:30	Piloting Membrane Technologies for the Treatment of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Richard Mah Suncor
  1:30 – 2:00	Field Study of Ceramic Membranes: Revolutionizing SAGD Produced Water Treatment through reliability, simplicity and economics. Stanton Smith, Bruce A. Bishop, Mark Nicholson and Sudhir Parab Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies and ConocoPhillips Canada
  2:00 – 2:30	The Evolution of SAGD Produced Water Evaporation Nate Haralson, presented by Nishith Vora GE Water & Process Technologies
  2:30 – 2:45	Networking Break
  	Advances in SAGD Plant Operation
  2:45 – 3:15	Zero blow-down green silica chemistry for cooling tower water treatment Rav Dhanoa Simran Canada Water Treatment Company
  3:15 – 3:45	A Novel Economic Solution for Controlling Lime and Magox Slurry Feed Line Plugging Steve Portelance WorleyParsons
  3:45 – 4:15	Evaluating SAGD Boiler Blowdown for Regeneration of HTDS Softeners Francis Boodoo The Purolite Company
  4:15 – 4:30	Networking Break
  	SAGD Boiler Blow-down Management
  4:30 – 5:00	Minimizing SAGD Boiler Blow-Down Disposal Volume by Evaporation and Acidification Abhijit Maiti, Subhayan Guha Thakurta University of Alberta and Suncor Energy Inc.
  5:00 – 5:30	Dissolved organic matter characterization of SAGD boiler blow down water using resin fractionation, membrane separation, and fluorescence excitation-emission mapping Subhayan Guha Thakurta, Abhijit Maiti University of Alberta and Suncor Energy Inc.
  5:30 – 7:00	Cocktails and Poster Presentations

  

  	Advances in Fate/Transport Modelling and Characterization
  8:15 – 8:45	Development of a Numerical Model to Support Regional Cumulative Effects Groundwater Management within the Northern Athabasca Oil Sands Mineable Area Margaret Scott WorleyParsons
  8:45 – 9:15	Stable Isotopes Analyses and Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Techniques for Characterizing Water in the Oil Sands Industry Yi Yi, Jun Han, John Gibson, Jean Birks, Christoph Borchers Alberta Innovates – Technologies Futures and University of Victoria
  9:15 – 9:45	Metal isotopic technology for monitoring oil sand metal emissions in rivers, lakes and groundwaters. Paul Gammon Geological Survey of Canada
  9:45 – 10:00	Networking Break
  	Mine Closure and End-Pit-Lakes
  10:00 – 10:30	Base Mine Lake: In-Situ Remediation of Fluid Fine Tails W. Zubot and S. Tavener Syncrude Canada Ltd.
  10:30 – 11:00	The Oil Sands Pit Lake Model – Sediment Diagenesis Module S. Prakash , J.A. Vandenberg , and E. Buchak ERM Inc, Golder Associates
  11:00 – 11:30	Twenty Years of Water and Load Balancing Acts – Are They Imbalances or Are We Unbalanced? Daryl Hockley and Kathleen Willman SRK Consulting
  11:30 – 12:00	Keynote Speaker – Joy Romero and Kavithaa Loganathan, CNRL Next Steps in Technology Breakthrough. CNRL Speaks of its Tailings Water Treatment Pilot Plant
  12:00 – 1:00	LUNCH
  	Biological and AOP Processes in Tailings Waters
  1:00 – 1:30	Removal of sulfate as sulfide from oil sands tailings ponds by resident microbial communities Dr. Gerrit Voordouw, Esther Ramos, Dongshan An, Sandra Wilson, Damon Brown, Lisa M. Gieg University of Alberta
  1:30 – 2:00	Feasibility Study for the Removal of Naphthenic Acids from Oil Sand Process-Affected Water by Chemical Oxidation Processes Atefeh Afzal, Przemyslaw Drzewicz, Leonidas A. Perez-Estrada, Mohamed Gamal El-Din, Jonathan W. Martin University of Alberta
  2:00 – 2:30	A study of OSPW biofilm community and biodegradability of naphthenic acids by CDC biofilm reactors Geelsu Hwang, Tao Dong, M.D Sahinoor Islam, Zhiya Sheng, Yang Liu, Mohamed Gamal El-Din University of Alberta
  2:30 – 2:45	Networking Break
  	Novel Applications for Oil Sands
  2:45 – 3:15	In situ chemical oxidation of acid-extractable organics in process affected groundwater Vahid Sohrabi, Steve Forsey, Jim Barker, Matt Ross, Jon Martin and Steve Rowland University of Alberta, University of Waterloo and University of Plymouth
  3:15 – 3:45	Potential for Activated Carbons in the Remediation of Wastewater from Oil Sands Operations David Layzell, Joseph Kimetu, Maen Hussein, Josephine Hill, Christopher Hewson, Joule Bergerson University of Calgary