Videos

Laricina is advancing new and innovative in situ recovery technologies through a combination of lab-based research, advanced simulation modelling and in-field testing. Watch our video to learn more about Laricina’s oil sands innovations, including the development of our carbonate resource, and the use of solvents with the SAGD process.

SAGD or steam-assisted gravity drainage is highly efficient for producing bitumen from the oil sands. Watch our video to see how injected steam heats the immobile bitumen which by gravity drains to the production well and is brought back up to the surface for processing and transport.

Water is an important component of in situ oil sands recovery. We will recycle over 90% of the water used in our commercial operations.  The remaining 10% is sourced from deep underground and is not fit for human or animal consumption.

Solvents such as propane are used to reduce the natural gas requirements to generate steam and improve recovery at both our Saleski and Germain projects. Laricina’s Solvent-Cyclic SAGD process (SC-SAGD) maximizes bitumen recovery by varying the solvent type and rates, in combination with steam in the SAGD process.

Laricina’s Sr. Carbonate Geologist, Kent Barrett and Dr. John Hopkins, Geology Professor, Emeritus at University of Calgary, describe the geology of Grosmont bitumen bearing zones at Laricina’s Saleski Pilot. This presentation was recorded during the 2008 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists annual convention.

At Laricina’s Germain property, the Devonian age Blueridge Member of the Winterburn Group contains a significant bitumen resource that Laricina is evaluating. This video which was recorded at the 2008 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Convention shows Laricina Sr. Carbonate Geologist, Kent Barrett describing the merits of two bitumen bearing Blueridge cores from Laricina Germain wells.