Press Releases

Laricina highlights its core development projects, Germain and Saleski, at the annual conference of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) held June 14 to 17, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. For more information about the EAGE conference, click here.

Marnie Connelly, Senior Staff Geologist, presented an overview of the Grand Rapids Formation, the primary target of Laricina’s Germain project at the EAGE conference on June 15. To view Ms. Connelly’s presentation "West Athabasca Grand Rapids Formation – A New SAGD Play", click here.

Kent Barrett, Senior Carbonate Geologist, provides an overview of the Grosmont formation in a presentation entitled "Geology of a Giant Bitumen Reservoir – Grosmont Formation, Northeast Alberta, Canada" on June 17. In addition to highlighting the geology of this carbonate formation, Mr. Barrett also provides an up-date on Laricina’s Saleski project, which will be the first to apply SAGD technology to a bitumen carbonate formation in Alberta. Click here to view this presentation.

With almost 900 technical presentations, the EAGE conference represents a global, multi-disciplinary event full of diverse geoscientific and reservoir engineering contributions. Laricina is proud to be the only company to offer presentations highlighting opportunities in Alberta’s oil sands.