Ridgeline Energy Services is an energy services technology company focused on providing water treatment solutions to the oil and gas industry using its proprietary technology. There is increasing demand for water treatment in the industry due to the rise of water-intensive production methods. Ridgeline's technology can efficiently treat contaminated water from fracking and produced water, enabling reuse and reducing costs. The economic opportunity for Ridgeline lies in capturing a share of the large market for water treatment in fracking, chemical flooding, and oil sands operations through volume-based treatment fees.
Tim Bertels - The Quest CCS project Canada - Presentation at the Global CCS I...Global CCS Institute
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The document summarizes Shell's Quest Carbon Capture & Storage Project in Alberta, Canada. It discusses (1) Shell's response to reducing CO2 emissions through natural gas, biofuels, carbon capture & storage, and energy efficiency; (2) Shell's involvement in various CCS projects worldwide; and (3) provides an overview of the Quest project which will capture over 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year from an oil sands upgrader and transport it via pipeline for storage in deep saline aquifers.
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Commercialization of IH2Technology for Conversion of Biomass to Fungible Rene...CRICatalyst
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VMS Ventures discovered the high grade Reed Lake copper deposit in Manitoba, Canada in 2007. The company has a joint venture with Hudbay Minerals to develop Reed Lake, with Hudbay funding ongoing exploration and development as the project operator. VMS also holds other exploration properties in the region prospective for copper, zinc and gold deposits. An aggressive drill program is underway to test targets on VMS's properties and expand resources at Reed Lake.
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Tim Bertels - The Quest CCS project Canada - Presentation at the Global CCS I...Global CCS Institute
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The document summarizes Shell's Quest Carbon Capture & Storage Project in Alberta, Canada. It discusses (1) Shell's response to reducing CO2 emissions through natural gas, biofuels, carbon capture & storage, and energy efficiency; (2) Shell's involvement in various CCS projects worldwide; and (3) provides an overview of the Quest project which will capture over 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year from an oil sands upgrader and transport it via pipeline for storage in deep saline aquifers.
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The document provides an overview of the National Biodiesel Board and biodiesel. It discusses that the NBB lobbies for and markets biodiesel in the US, funded by soybean farmers, grants, and biodiesel producers. The presentation aims to educate technicians about biodiesel production, quality standards, benefits including environmental and performance, and OEM support of biodiesel blends. It emphasizes that biodiesel must meet ASTM D6751 specifications and come from BQ-9000 certified suppliers to function properly in diesel engines.
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The document provides an overview of CRI Catalyst Company's IH2 technology for converting biomass to renewable hydrocarbons. The IH2 process uses a two-stage system with proprietary catalysts to produce fungible liquid fuels from various biomass feedstocks in a flexible and economical manner. Pilot testing of the technology demonstrates high liquid yields from biomass with fuel products that meet gasoline and diesel specifications. The process also generates renewable hydrogen and achieves significant greenhouse gas reductions compared to fossil fuels.
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This document provides an overview of a training course on biodiesel engine and fleet performance presented by the National Biodiesel Board. The objectives are to provide expert answers on biodiesel use, introduce diesel technician training resources, and discuss fleet experiences with biodiesel. Key topics covered include biodiesel properties, engine manufacturer positions on biodiesel blends, and technical guidance from a biodiesel evaluation team on ensuring proper fuel quality and maintenance practices when adopting biodiesel.
Jennifer Morgan, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute, presented on the state of global climate policy at the launch of The Climate Institute's Global Climate Leadership Review 2012.
In order to achieve current climate change goals, Australia needs to use a long-term carbon budget approach to properly assess the risks, responsibilities and realities of doing its fair share.
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Cellulosic Hydrocarbon Fuels from IH2 TechnologyCRICatalyst
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The document discusses IH2 technology, which uses catalysts, hydrogen and heat to convert biomass like wood, crop residues, and algae into high purity hydrocarbon fuels. The IH2 process is more efficient than natural processes, taking only minutes to convert biomass versus millions of years. It can integrate with existing refineries and produce gasoline and diesel that meet fuel standards. The process is nearly carbon neutral, flexible to different feedstocks, has attractive economics, and recovers over 70% of the bioenergy in the biomass. It has evolved through generations of catalyst improvements to optimize fuel production.
The document discusses IH2 technology, which can convert biomass into transportation fuels. IH2 technology offers several advantages over other biofuel production methods, including lower capital costs and the ability to produce drop-in hydrocarbon fuels from a variety of feedstocks. The technology can operate as a standalone process or be integrated with existing industrial operations like pulp/paper mills or ethanol plants to provide synergistic benefits. Commercialization of IH2 technology is progressing, with the first demonstration and commercial licenses expected in early 2012. The technology could potentially be applied in Latin America to produce cellulosic biofuels.
CRI Excerpt from American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturerâs Panel DiscussionCRICatalyst
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The document summarizes a presentation on emerging biomass conversion technologies for producing renewable fuels. It describes:
1) The IH2 process which can convert various biomass feedstocks like wood residues, agricultural waste, and algae into drop-in hydrocarbon fuels.
2) The process has been demonstrated at bench and pilot scale and is being scaled up with the goal of having a 5 tonne per day demonstration unit available by 2014.
3) There is significant interest from Asian countries and US petroleum refiners in partnering to commercialize the technology.
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This document discusses shale gas resources in Poland and the potential economic benefits of developing these resources. It notes that Talisman Energy has 3 concessions in Poland and outlines the locations of potential shale gas basins in the country. The document emphasizes that there are still many uncertainties around the gas deposits in Poland and that further geological studies are required. It also discusses techniques for extracting shale gas via hydraulic fracturing and the importance of environmental protection measures to ensure safe operations.
The document discusses ways to improve stream stewardship in the communities of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County, North Carolina. It notes several things the communities are doing well related to stormwater management and environmental protection. It then discusses the need to address runoff from existing development, have realistic expectations for stream restoration, build on strong stormwater standards, provide incentives for green practices, and select practices that provide multiple benefits. Finally, it provides examples of potential projects and policies to help meet these goals, such as retrofitting neighborhoods, streets, and public/private properties with green infrastructure to reduce runoff, and implementing innovative approaches like stormwater utilities, trading programs, and cost-sharing to fund the work.
This document summarizes a presentation on modern shale gas development. It discusses how advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made shale gas production economically viable in recent years. It provides an overview of major shale gas plays in the US and details of the geology, drilling, fracturing process and environmental considerations of shale gas development. The presentation emphasizes how horizontal drilling reduces surface impacts compared to vertical wells and discusses water sourcing, reuse and disposal in different shale basins.
Protect our Environment while Reducing operational expense Rob Harrison
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Oil & Gas producers are facing the economic and financial challenges never seen before. Increase R.O.I., improve employee safety and protect our environment today more than ever!
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This document discusses water management issues related to shale gas production. It outlines the various phases of water management including withdrawal, transport, storage, drilling, fracturing, treatment, reuse/recycling, and disposal. Large volumes of water are used in hydraulic fracturing, with most water being reused or disposed of through underground injection wells. Produced water from gas wells varies in quality and total dissolved solids, posing challenges for treatment and reuse. The document reviews water usage and management approaches in major shale gas basins and notes that regulatory considerations are still evolving.
Verdis converts flared natural gas into ultra-clean diesel using their patented Gas to Diesel (GTD) conversion technology. Their Fischer-Tropsch process and cobalt-ruthenium catalyst boost diesel yield from 50% to 94%. Capital requirements for initial units are $5-10 million to manufacture the first units. Projected revenues within 5 years are over $40 million with EBITA of $35 million.
This document discusses site selection considerations, technological challenges, and the economic analysis of algal biofuels production. Key factors in site selection include slope, proximity to CO2 and wastewater sources, and land availability and prices. Technological challenges include improving algal strain selection, lipid extraction methods, and refining processes. Production costs range from $0.80-101 per gallon of algae, and $2.50-25 per gallon of biodiesel. Algal biofuels production could provide environmental benefits like reducing emissions, and social benefits like job creation through private sector investment.
IRJET- Prospects of using Locally Sourced Oil Palm Fronds Fibres as Fluid...IRJET Journal
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This document examines using oil palm frond fibers as fluid loss control additives in water-based drilling muds. It finds that salt water muds have the most fluid loss, followed by fresh water muds, with CMC polymer muds having the least. Adding oil palm frond fibers improves filtration properties by decreasing fluid loss with increased fiber concentrations, while increasing filter cake thickness. Both fluid loss and cake thickness decrease with smaller fiber particle sizes. Using locally sourced oil palm frond fibers as additives could help control fluid loss while reducing costs for the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
TransCanada is a major player in the natural gas and power industries in North America. The Keystone XL pipeline would provide additional access for oil produced in Canada and the U.S. Bakken formation to refineries along the Gulf Coast. When completed, it will help address concerns about declining supplies from other countries and increase security of oil supplies in the U.S.
The document describes an on-site, cost-effective wastewater treatment package for the shale oil and gas industry using an integrated process of chemical coagulation, walnut shell filtration, and membrane distillation. The treatment package is energy self-sustaining through the use of geothermal energy and produces high quality water that can be discharged or reused while meeting EPA regulations. It provides a competitive alternative to current evaporation-based and reverse osmosis technologies that are expensive, energy intensive, or unable to treat high-salinity wastewater. Preliminary lab results show the treatment train can operate continuously for over 70 hours with over 99.9% removal of salts, organics, and boron.
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The oil and gas industry is facing challenges and dilemmas encountered in 2009 such as contract delays, furloughs and rig closures are resurfacing. As oil and gas prices continue to decline, oil companies are starting to consider rig stacking as an alternative to reducing overhead and operating costs. This presentation explored what the future might hold for the subsea market, current infrastructures and future deepwater project development.
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This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's business segments, strengths, investment merits, capital investment plans, power supply, environmental commitments, and financial performance. Projections for 2004 earnings per share and cash flow are also presented. Key points include Xcel being the 4th largest US electric and gas utility, a growing service area, low rates, and a goal of providing competitive total returns of 7-9% to shareholders.
This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's financial performance, business segments, generation assets, environmental commitments, regulatory strategy, and earnings guidance. The presentation outlines Xcel's strengths as a utility, investment merits, and objectives to invest additional capital in its utility business and improve credit ratings while providing competitive returns.
This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's financial performance, business segments, generation assets, environmental commitments, regulatory strategy, and earnings guidance. The presentation outlines Xcel's strengths as a growing utility, its investment merits, and capital expenditure plans to improve its credit ratings and provide competitive returns.
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This document provides an overview of a training course on biodiesel engine and fleet performance presented by the National Biodiesel Board. The objectives are to provide expert answers on biodiesel use, introduce diesel technician training resources, and discuss fleet experiences with biodiesel. Key topics covered include biodiesel properties, engine manufacturer positions on biodiesel blends, and technical guidance from a biodiesel evaluation team on ensuring proper fuel quality and maintenance practices when adopting biodiesel.
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In order to achieve current climate change goals, Australia needs to use a long-term carbon budget approach to properly assess the risks, responsibilities and realities of doing its fair share.
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Cellulosic Hydrocarbon Fuels from IH2 TechnologyCRICatalyst
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The document discusses IH2 technology, which uses catalysts, hydrogen and heat to convert biomass like wood, crop residues, and algae into high purity hydrocarbon fuels. The IH2 process is more efficient than natural processes, taking only minutes to convert biomass versus millions of years. It can integrate with existing refineries and produce gasoline and diesel that meet fuel standards. The process is nearly carbon neutral, flexible to different feedstocks, has attractive economics, and recovers over 70% of the bioenergy in the biomass. It has evolved through generations of catalyst improvements to optimize fuel production.
The document discusses IH2 technology, which can convert biomass into transportation fuels. IH2 technology offers several advantages over other biofuel production methods, including lower capital costs and the ability to produce drop-in hydrocarbon fuels from a variety of feedstocks. The technology can operate as a standalone process or be integrated with existing industrial operations like pulp/paper mills or ethanol plants to provide synergistic benefits. Commercialization of IH2 technology is progressing, with the first demonstration and commercial licenses expected in early 2012. The technology could potentially be applied in Latin America to produce cellulosic biofuels.
CRI Excerpt from American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturerâs Panel DiscussionCRICatalyst
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The document summarizes a presentation on emerging biomass conversion technologies for producing renewable fuels. It describes:
1) The IH2 process which can convert various biomass feedstocks like wood residues, agricultural waste, and algae into drop-in hydrocarbon fuels.
2) The process has been demonstrated at bench and pilot scale and is being scaled up with the goal of having a 5 tonne per day demonstration unit available by 2014.
3) There is significant interest from Asian countries and US petroleum refiners in partnering to commercialize the technology.
2.5 "Shale Gas - Revolution in Energetics - The North American Perspective" -...Pomcert
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The document discusses ways to improve stream stewardship in the communities of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County, North Carolina. It notes several things the communities are doing well related to stormwater management and environmental protection. It then discusses the need to address runoff from existing development, have realistic expectations for stream restoration, build on strong stormwater standards, provide incentives for green practices, and select practices that provide multiple benefits. Finally, it provides examples of potential projects and policies to help meet these goals, such as retrofitting neighborhoods, streets, and public/private properties with green infrastructure to reduce runoff, and implementing innovative approaches like stormwater utilities, trading programs, and cost-sharing to fund the work.
This document summarizes a presentation on modern shale gas development. It discusses how advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made shale gas production economically viable in recent years. It provides an overview of major shale gas plays in the US and details of the geology, drilling, fracturing process and environmental considerations of shale gas development. The presentation emphasizes how horizontal drilling reduces surface impacts compared to vertical wells and discusses water sourcing, reuse and disposal in different shale basins.
Protect our Environment while Reducing operational expense Rob Harrison
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Produced Water Issues with Shale Gas ProductionDan Arthur
Â
This document discusses water management issues related to shale gas production. It outlines the various phases of water management including withdrawal, transport, storage, drilling, fracturing, treatment, reuse/recycling, and disposal. Large volumes of water are used in hydraulic fracturing, with most water being reused or disposed of through underground injection wells. Produced water from gas wells varies in quality and total dissolved solids, posing challenges for treatment and reuse. The document reviews water usage and management approaches in major shale gas basins and notes that regulatory considerations are still evolving.
Verdis converts flared natural gas into ultra-clean diesel using their patented Gas to Diesel (GTD) conversion technology. Their Fischer-Tropsch process and cobalt-ruthenium catalyst boost diesel yield from 50% to 94%. Capital requirements for initial units are $5-10 million to manufacture the first units. Projected revenues within 5 years are over $40 million with EBITA of $35 million.
This document discusses site selection considerations, technological challenges, and the economic analysis of algal biofuels production. Key factors in site selection include slope, proximity to CO2 and wastewater sources, and land availability and prices. Technological challenges include improving algal strain selection, lipid extraction methods, and refining processes. Production costs range from $0.80-101 per gallon of algae, and $2.50-25 per gallon of biodiesel. Algal biofuels production could provide environmental benefits like reducing emissions, and social benefits like job creation through private sector investment.
IRJET- Prospects of using Locally Sourced Oil Palm Fronds Fibres as Fluid...IRJET Journal
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This document examines using oil palm frond fibers as fluid loss control additives in water-based drilling muds. It finds that salt water muds have the most fluid loss, followed by fresh water muds, with CMC polymer muds having the least. Adding oil palm frond fibers improves filtration properties by decreasing fluid loss with increased fiber concentrations, while increasing filter cake thickness. Both fluid loss and cake thickness decrease with smaller fiber particle sizes. Using locally sourced oil palm frond fibers as additives could help control fluid loss while reducing costs for the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
TransCanada is a major player in the natural gas and power industries in North America. The Keystone XL pipeline would provide additional access for oil produced in Canada and the U.S. Bakken formation to refineries along the Gulf Coast. When completed, it will help address concerns about declining supplies from other countries and increase security of oil supplies in the U.S.
The document describes an on-site, cost-effective wastewater treatment package for the shale oil and gas industry using an integrated process of chemical coagulation, walnut shell filtration, and membrane distillation. The treatment package is energy self-sustaining through the use of geothermal energy and produces high quality water that can be discharged or reused while meeting EPA regulations. It provides a competitive alternative to current evaporation-based and reverse osmosis technologies that are expensive, energy intensive, or unable to treat high-salinity wastewater. Preliminary lab results show the treatment train can operate continuously for over 70 hours with over 99.9% removal of salts, organics, and boron.
10 Things That May Affect the Future of Subsea ProductionHubie Fix
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The oil and gas industry is facing challenges and dilemmas encountered in 2009 such as contract delays, furloughs and rig closures are resurfacing. As oil and gas prices continue to decline, oil companies are starting to consider rig stacking as an alternative to reducing overhead and operating costs. This presentation explored what the future might hold for the subsea market, current infrastructures and future deepwater project development.
This presentation was presented at the 2015 Deepwater Technical Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's business segments, strengths, investment merits, capital investment plans, power supply, environmental commitments, and financial performance. Projections for 2004 earnings per share and cash flow are also presented. Key points include Xcel being the 4th largest US electric and gas utility, a growing service area, low rates, and a goal of providing competitive total returns of 7-9% to shareholders.
This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's financial performance, business segments, generation assets, environmental commitments, regulatory strategy, and earnings guidance. The presentation outlines Xcel's strengths as a utility, investment merits, and objectives to invest additional capital in its utility business and improve credit ratings while providing competitive returns.
This document provides an overview of Xcel Energy Inc. for investors attending the EEI International Financial Conference. It summarizes Xcel's financial performance, business segments, generation assets, environmental commitments, regulatory strategy, and earnings guidance. The presentation outlines Xcel's strengths as a growing utility, its investment merits, and capital expenditure plans to improve its credit ratings and provide competitive returns.
Microsoft powerpoint managing environmental risk in investing in shale playsScott Deatherage
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This document discusses managing environmental risk for successful oil and gas shale investment. It outlines the economic opportunities in shale plays and the typical drilling and fracturing process. Some key environmental risks that must be managed include issues related to wellbore integrity, flowback water management, spills, air emissions, and induced seismicity from wastewater injection. Both state and federal statutes apply, including regulations around casing/cementing, waste transport and disposal, air and water quality. Litigation has been filed alleging environmental damages. Investors can evaluate risk by ensuring companies follow best practices around drilling, fracturing, and waste management to protect water and air quality.
The document summarizes recent developments and future paths for production of shale oil. It discusses the Colorado School of Mines Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research (COSTAR) and an annual Oil Shale Symposium. It provides details on global oil shale resources like those in the Green River Formation and recent research and development lease activities in the United States. It also discusses potential influences on future oil shale production like environmental and economic issues as well as peak oil production.
Cenovus Energy is an oil and natural gas company based in Alberta, Canada that was established in 2009 through the spin-off of Encana's oil sands and conventional oil assets. It has over 100 years of industry experience through predecessor companies. Cenovus operates oil sands projects in northern Alberta as well as conventional oil and gas production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It also has a 50% stake in two refineries in the U.S. with a combined refining capacity of 460,000 barrels per day. While oil sands development generates economic benefits for Canada, it faces challenges related to the environmental impact of large-scale mining operations and the need for significant ongoing investments.
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Bepex proposes collaborating to develop a thermal evaporation process to reduce produced water volumes in the Permian Basin. They have experience applying a similar thermal drying technology (FTTDTM) to oil sands tailings in Canada. A preliminary conceptual design shows thermal drying could reduce water disposal costs per barrel of oil by over 30% compared to alternatives like trucking. Bepex recommends bench and pilot testing to evaluate technical and economic feasibility for the specific Permian Basin conditions.
BP's strategy presentation outlines plans to grow production and profits while transitioning to a lower-carbon energy future. Key points include restoring revenues through operational improvements, controlling costs, accessing new resources, and investing in gas, renewables, and efficiency. BP aims to outperform peers through efficient exploration, high-quality refining assets, and growth in international businesses. The presentation identifies opportunities to improve earnings, returns, and project execution to realize BP's potential.
- Produced water from oil and gas extraction poses high costs for transportation and disposal, but also presents an opportunity for beneficial use if desalinated.
- Advances in desalination technology, particularly reverse osmosis, have the potential to make treatment of lower-salinity produced waters cost-effective by allowing deep-well injection of concentrate without an EPA permit.
- A study in Texas found that about 1/3 of produced waters have salinities below 10,000 mg/L, making them candidates for desalination, with potential annual cost savings of millions for operators if treatment and beneficial use were implemented on a large scale.
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An English đŹđ§ translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech đ¨đż version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
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Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
2. Forward Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this presentation, including management's assessment of future plans and
operations, contains forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements are subject to
numerous risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control. Those risks include, without
limitation, the effect of general economic conditions, risks associated with the oil and gas industry and
commercializing environmental technologies and services, loss of markets, industry conditions and
competition, volatility of commodity prices, currency fluctuations, environmental risks, competition from other
industry participants, the ability to access qualified personnel and field services, decisions by regulators and
the ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on the forward-looking statements as the assumptions used in the preparation of such
information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and actual
results, performance or achievements could materially differ from those expressed or implied in such forward-
looking statements and accordingly, no assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by forward-
looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefit Ridgeline Energy Services Inc.
will derive therefrom.
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3. Company Overview
Ridgeline is an energy services technology company focused on providing water treatment
solutions to the oil and gas industry
⢠Has developed a commercially proven proprietary technology that efficiently treats contaminated water
generated by oil and gas producers and commercial waste water
⢠Primarily targeting produce and frack flowback water, additional targets are the chemical flood, and oil
sands water treatment markets.
⢠Solves client issues in sourcing water, storing water and dealing with waste water on site while cutting
costs and dealing with environmental concerns
⢠Positioning to be the leading oil and gas industry water treatment company in North America as the need
for water and environmental concerns grow
⢠Also has profitable Environmental and Greenfill divisions
Issued and Outstanding 61,452,837
Warrants 15,498,211 $ 6,749,307
Options 5,132,504 $ 1,478,837
Fully Diluted 82,083,552
Water Technology Acquisition 34,581,743
Total 116,665,295 $ 8,228,144
Insider ownership (post water technology acquisition) - 55%
Institutional ownership approximately 15-20% - Including Stephens Investment Management, a long fund, based on fundamental research
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4. Industry Demand
⢠The North American oil and gas industry is seeing an increasing use
of water-intensive production methods to extract reserves
⢠Shale Oil & Natural Gas Fracturing
ď§ Fracking involves stimulating a well bore using high pressure water laced with highly
corrosive salts, carcinogens and radioactive elements
ď§ If not managed or treated appropriately, the produced water can end up in surface
or groundwater systems and contaminate land, drinking water and waterways
ď§ The cost of water to frac wells has put pressure on the industry to find a solution so
that the water can be re-used for multiple frac stages
ď§ Water related costs to the producer include purchasing and hauling freshwater,
hauling process water to disposal wells, and disposal fees
⢠Oil Sands
ď§ Through SAGD extraction, water creates steam used to heat raw, thick bitumen for
extraction and processing
ď§ For every barrel of bitumen, between two and four barrels of fresh water are
required to extract the bitumen from the sand
ď§ Creates huge, long life (30-40 year) toxic tailings ponds estimated to contain over
1 trillion m3 of toxic liquids
ď§ Industry to meet new environmental standards and directives
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5. Frac Market Opportunity
Fracking and Produced Water Market
⢠The oil industry produces 2.5 times more water than oil
⢠By 2025 it will be producing 5 times more water than oil
⢠Handling produced water is a tremendous growth market but the real opportunity is in
treatment
⢠Recycling produced water turns a waste into a valuable asset
⢠In 2007 the oil and gas industry in the United States used approximately 21 billion barrels of
water to frack oil and gas wells of which 97% is related to onshore production (1)
US Shale Gas Production
⢠Produced water is the largest volume
4.5
waste stream in oil and gas
4.0
3.5
production
3.0
Eagle Ford
Marcellus
⢠USA produced water
2.5 Haynesville
21 Billion bbl /yr
TCF
Woodford
2.0
Fayetteville Approximately 57 million bbl /day or
1.5 Barnett
1.0 Antrim 333 million m3/year or 913,000 m3/day (1)
0.5
0.0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 (1) Clark, C.E., and J.A. Veil, 2009, Produced Water Volumes and Management Practices in the United States,
ANL/EVS/R-09/1
*Source: EIA, Richard Newell (Lipman Consulting) 5
6. Chemical Flood and
Oil Sands Market Opportunity
Oil Sands Market Mature Fine Tailings Volumes
⢠According to company submissions,
volume of FFT/MFT* will grow 30% from
843 million m3 in 2010 to over 1.1 billion
m3 in 2020. By 2065, the volume of
tailings will still be over 1.1 billion
⢠SAGD and Chemical Floods use millions
of cubic meters of water per year that
can be re-used and recycled
* refers to volumes stored in ponds
Source: AltaCorp Capital âCompany Reports, CAPP, AltaCorp Estimates Source: ERCB
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7. Economic Opportunity
Ridgeline owns and operates the treatment assets 2000M3/DAY CORE UNIT
⢠Volume-based treatment fees provide recurring revenue Annual volume M3/year 700,000
streams.
Revenue $ 3,180,799
⢠Fees to be determined by water quality, volumes, and the
water product as determined by the client. $/m3 $ 4.54
Produce and Frack Flowback Water Costs $ (1,296,959)
⢠Ridgeline feels it can capture a significant portion of the Earnings before tax $ 1,883,845
produce and frack flowback water market within three to Depreciation (5 years) $ (401,996)
EBIT $ 1,481,848
four years
Chemical Flood and Oil Sands â Mining and SAGD Alberta Tax Rate 26.5% $ (392,689)
Earnings after tax $ 1,089,160
⢠Chemical flood to improve oil recovery has the potential for
significant water treatment volumes. Depreciation (5 years) $ 401,996
⢠Significant opportunity to recover hydrocarbons in tailings
to markedly offset treatment costs After tax Cash flow $ 1,491,156
Capital Cost $ (2,009,982)
Payback (Years) 1.3
Internal Rate of return (5 years) 69%
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8. The Technology
⢠Developed by Dennis Danzik the inventor of the proprietary electro-catalytic process effectively treats
large quantities and multiple types of oil and gas exploration and production wastewater
⢠âCracksâ water at a sub-molecular level allowing âtargetingâ of reagents and mechanical processes to
reduce suspended and dissolved solids, chlorides, dissolved gases, and other harmful contaminates
⢠Benefits include very low energy consumption, high continuous flow rates, and can extract usable
hydrocarbons
Reactor at start Reaction to completion Extracted hydrocarbon
Barrels of test water
(100% process value) (97% reusable) (3%)
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9. Competing Technologies
Effectiveness Productivity Cost Efficiency Process
Heavy Metals Chlorides TDS Energy Solids Fuel Treatment Capital Modular Continuous
Removal Removal Removal Consumption Disposal Recovery Costs Costs Process Process
Electro-Coagulation
Evaporation/
Distillation
Cavitation
Reverse Osmosis
Ridgeline
Electro-Catalytic
Weak Excellent
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Vapex
10. Energy Consumption
kW Per Energy Gallons Barrels m3 Cost Per Cost Per Cost Per
3
Hour kW Per Day Cost (Daily) Produced Produced Produced Gallon Barrel m
Electrocatalytic 120 2,880 $202 500,000 11,905 1,894 $0.000 $0.02 $0.11
Electrocoagulation 3,225 77,400 $5,418 500,000 11,905 1,894 $0.011 $0.46 $2.86
Evaporation 2,423 58,152 $4,071 500,000 11,905 1,894 $0.008 $0.34 $2.15
kW Consumption per Hour Cost of Energy Consumed
$3,500 $3.50
3,225
Total Daily Energy Consumption (kW per Hour)
$3,000 $3.00 $2.86
2,423 $2.50
$2,500
$2.15
$2.00
Cost of Energy
$2,000
$1.50
$1,500
$1.00
$1,000
$0.46
$0.50 $0.34
$500 $0.11
$0.00 $0.02 $0.01 $0.01
120 $0.00
$0 Electrocatalytic Electrocoagulation Evaporation
Electrocatalytic Electrocoagulation Evaporation Cost Per Gallon Cost Per Barrel Cost Per m3
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11. Leonard Shale, New Mexico
Analytical Results
Average Reduction
200000
Average Results (mg/L)
150000
100000
50000
0
TDS TSS Chloride Barium
Parameters
Average Baseline Average Endpoint
Average Barium Reduction Average TSS Reduction
0.4 2000
Average Results (mg/L)
Average Results (mg/L)
0.2 1000
0 0
Barium TSS
Average Baseline Average Endpoint Average Baseline Average Endpoint
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12. Commercial Development
Commercial installations in and under construction
1. Gas shale produce and frack water treatment, Horn River Shale, B.C.
1) Oil shale produce and frack water treatment, Leonard Shale, New Mexico and Texas
2) Polymer flood enhanced recovery crude oil process water treatment, Brintnell oil field,
northern Alberta
Development agreements
1) Chemical flood, produce and frack water treatment oil shale Waskada area of
southwestern Manitoba
2) Commercial/industrial waste water treatment, Los Angeles CA.
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13. Mobile Development Lab
⢠Waste water and material evaluation unit that is transportable to site
⢠Scientifically characterizes a wide variety of water sources for treatment, reuse, and
recycling, as well as enhanced hydrocarbon recovery; develops water treatments
that meet customer needs
⢠Water treatment capability and quality can be determined during real-time
operations
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14. Milestones
Announces Commissioning
Built first
Independent Successful Acquisition of first
Development of Mobile
Laboratory Trials of IP from Commercial
Technology Development
Verification Completed Danzik system in Horn
Laboratory
Hydrological River
2005- 2009 January 2010 June 2010 October 2010 April 2011 June 2011
Install first
Signed Development Commercial
Install first commercial
agreement to agreement to Install for ďź Fracking
commercial installation
install MDL install system Production ďź Oil Sands
installation in for polymer
Los Angeles, in Waskada Water units ďź Industrial
Texas flood
CA Manitoba Texas
recovery
September 2011 September 2011 September 2011 October 2011 December 2011
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15. Targeted Customers
Ridgeline has done work for over 40 oil and gas companies
Conventional & Unconventional Oil & Gas Companies
Oil Sands Companies
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16. Ridgeline Environment
⢠Offers complete environmental solutions
for oil and natural gas producers:
ď§ Site assessments (Phase I/II/III, EIA,
water/wetland/biological, soils, etc.)
ď§ Implementation & project management
of site remediation / reclamation programs
ď§ Services a range of upstream, mid-stream,
& downstream producers
⢠90 employees â deployed with approximately 40 current clients
⢠Provides $11+ million annual revenue run rate with 30% - 40% gross margins
⢠Business continues expansion â year over year
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17. Ridgeline Greenfill
⢠Solution for O&G customers to transform contaminated soil into safe landfill cover
ď§ Existing landfills are ideal disposal sites for non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment
hydrology, soil type, gradient)
ď§ Bacteria and microorganisms break down hydrocarbons into CO2 and water
ď§ Bioremediation and mechanical treatment takes place within bio-cells
ď§ After treatment, these soils meet unconditional land usage criteria
⢠Approximately 70,000+ O&G sites in Alberta
in need of treatment
⢠O&G producers benefit from lower
transportation costs & reduction of liability
ď§ Conventional methods involve storing at
approved Class 2 landfills with expensive
trucking/disposal costs, and retention of
liability by producer
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18. Management Team
Tony Ker, CEO & Director â Over 25 years of experience building & operating companies in natural
resources & manufacturing sectors in N.A. Leading and developing management teams that support
growth and continuity in the organization. Back ground in Forest Products, Manufacturing, Printing,
start up of Junior resource companies, experience at dealing in an international environment.
Dennis M. Danzik, Business Development / Commercial Installations â Mr. Danzik is an engineer by
profession and the Inventor of the water treatment and distributed energy technology. Dennis is a
noted and published expert in polyolefin design and application. Has twenty eight years experience in
Scientific Investigation, Financial and Technical Presentations. U.S. Defense contractor (retired). Mr.
Danzik has twenty six years of patent experience, with U.S. and foreign patents issued. MIT Alumni
[Sloan] and Member MIT Product Development Group.
Tyler Heathcote, President, Director â Oversees all business units of RLE, including Ridgeline
Environment Inc., Ridgeline Water Inc., and Ridgeline GreenFill Inc. Owned and operated companies in
the energy services sector for over 20 years.
James Yeager, Chief Financial Officer â Mr. Yeager brings over 30 yearâs experience in senior
management positions in finance and accounting with both public and private companies. Mr. Yeager
has held the position of CFO in multiple publicly listed companies managing yearly revenues into the
hundred's of millions. His experience with rapidly growing companies is well suited to manage the
expected growth in all of Ridgelines business divisions.
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19. Board of Directors
Douglas Johnson, Chairman â Over 30 years of experience in the financing of public & private
companies. Since 1982, Mr. Johnson has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Canfund
Ventures Corp.
Brian Straub, Director â Recently retired as President, Shell Canada Limited and Canada Country Chair,
Royal Dutch Shell. Over 32 years of diverse Canadian and global oil & gas experience, his previous
executive responsibilities have included oil sands, exploration & production, major construction and
technology development/application.
Kelly Sledz, Director â Chartered accountant with a background in the oil & gas industry. Past positions
include acting as an auditor for KPMG and Deloite Touche before acting as Controller, and VP of Finance
for public oil and gas exploration companies. Mr. Sledz brings a unique blend of public company
experience, oil & gas industry knowledge, and financial acumen to the company.
Robert Raymond, Director â Over 25 years of business and management experience. Extensive
experience building business units, intricate knowledge of the insurance business and negotiations.
Tony Ker, Director â See Management
Tyler Heathcote, Director â See Management
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20. Investment Highlights
ďź Established energy services business with tier 1 customer base serving oil and gas
industryâprovides stable revenue and cash flow to fund growth initiatives
ďź Large and growing market in Oil and Gas and Industrial waste water treatments
ďź Disruptive technology to cost effectively treat large volumes of wastewater (including
frac and process water) from the oil and gas industry
ďź Water management system that solves waste water problems in an expanding and
vital marketplace
ďź Renewable Energy technology not yet in forecasts
ďź Profitable with solid balance sheet and clean capital structure
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21. Thank You.
Ridgeline Energy Services Inc.
Company Contact: Investor Relations:
Ridgeline Energy Services, Inc. Crescendo Communications, LLC
Ryan Johnson David Waldman, Klea Theoharis
Corporate Development
Tel: (604) 566-8066 ext 2 Tel: (212) 671-1020
Email: rjohnson@ridgelinecanada.com Email: rle@crescendo-ir.com