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Petroteq Energy Announces That Production of Oil From its Oil Sands Plant has Recommenced After Implementing Certain Process Enhancements
ENP Newswire
29 April 2021, 1299 words, English,
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Release date - 28042021
Petroteq Energy Inc. ('Petroteq' or the 'Company') TSXV:PQE)(OTC:PQEFF) (FSE:PQCF), an integrated oil company focused on the development and implementation of its proprietary oil-extraction technologies, is pleased to announce that its oil sands plant at Asphalt Ridge (the 'POSP') has been restarted after a shutdown to allow for certain additional enhancements that were required to be made to the POSP in order to allow for a more efficient and optimised extraction process.
The required additional equipment has now been successfully installed and tested, and the POSP is again producing oil.
George Stapleton, Petroteq's COO, commented: 'After optimizing the extraction process following initial plant start-up, we determined that certain equipment additions would improve not only the process of extracting bitumen from the oil sands ore but also the removal of clay fines from produced oil. The required equipment has now been installed and commissioned, and we expect that the projected improvement in operating efficiencies will help support the third-party review of the commerciality of the extraction process. We will look to fine-tune the various plant systems with the view to increasing production rates and, if warranted by operational and economic conditions, moving to a two-shift operation. Much has been learned from operation of this demonstration plant and all of these lessons learned are now being incorporated into the Front End Engineering Design ('FEED') of a 5,000 barrel per day ('BPD') production train, which is currently underway.'
About Petroteq Energy Inc.
Petroteq is a clean technology company focused on the development, implementation and licensing of a patented, environmentally safe and sustainable technology for the extraction and reclamation of heavy oil and bitumen from oil sands and mineable oil deposits. Petroteq is currently focused on developing its oil sands resources at Asphalt Ridge and upgrading production capacity at its heavy oil extraction facility located near Vernal, Utah.
Petroteq believes that its technology can produce a relatively sweet heavy crude oil from deposits of oil sands at Asphalt Ridge without requiring the use of water, and therefore without generating wastewater which would otherwise require the use of other treatment or disposal facilities which could be harmful to the environment. Petroteq's process is intended to be a more environmentally friendly extraction technology that leaves clean residual sand that can be returned to the environment, without the use of tailings ponds or further remediation.