Parking lot to be transformed into giant outdoor lab with millions of dollars of high-tech oil industry equipment

WHAT: Students in NAIT’s Petroleum Engineering Technology program will get a chance to investigate and operate massive oilfield equipment as part of their annual Industry Day.

Some of the impressive equipment on site will include:

- Trucks capable of running electronic recording devices in extremely high pressure and temperature environments up to 6 km below ground
- Mobile control centres used in the development of shale gas deposits.
- A service rig with a 75-foot high mast
- A 70-foot long truck with a 2500-horsepower engine and mounted pumps that stimulates oil and gas production
- Air quality monitoring equipment used to detect air pollution from oil and gas production facilities
- A one-of-a-kind training simulator used to replicate hazardous well-servicing operations

Technical presentations will be given by industry experts on the following topics:

- Liquid propane hydraulic fracturing – A technique used to produce oil and gas from deposits that have been previously uneconomic to produce.
- Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project – A pipeline to move Alberta bitumen to Asian markets.
- Oilsands tailings management.

WHERE: NAIT Main Campus
10240 Princess Elizabeth Ave.

WHEN: Thursday, April 14th

Equipment displays:
Parking Lot O, between Building L and K
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Speakers:
Shaw Theatre
o 8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. – Canadian Heavy Oil Association, status of the heavy oil industry in Alberta
o 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. – GASFRAC Energy Services Inc., liquid propane hydraulic fracturing
o 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Laricina Energy, carbonate bitumen deposits
Nexen Theatre
o 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Enbridge, Northern Gateway Pipeline
Room X111 (South Learning Centre)
o 2 p.m. – 3 pm: Suncor Energy, tailings management

WHY: See the impressive equipment students will soon work with in their industry. And find out why industry wants to bring its high-priced equipment and personnel to NAIT and to talk directly to students.

For more information, please contact:

Bruce Reinders
Chair of Petroleum Engineering Technology program
P 780.471.7776 C 780.918.9731 E brucer@nait.ca
  
Frank Landry
NAIT Media Relations
P 780.471.8450 C 780.916.8307 E flandry@nait.ca