Leduc #1
is making history—again
20th century oil pioneers changed Alberta when the Leduc
#1 well blew in. Today the province has over 220,000
disused oil wells and Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre is
converting one to geothermal energy—a first in Canadian
history. It’s at the heart of the Living Energy Project.
Converting less than 5% of them to geothermal
greenhouse heating could boost Alberta’s area under
glass 440%, creating up to 5,000 permanent year-round
jobs in agriculture. It would put thousands of drillers and
oil service workers back to work preparing the wells for
conversion—without a cent of taxpayers’ money.
The Living Energy Project showcases another use for
geothermal—heating buildings—and its pump is driven
by renewable energy systems built by Albertan oil workers.
They will turn the centre into the world’s first carbon
neutral oil museum. Its orchestra of displays include North
America’s largest sun-tracking solar power unit, and a
wind turbine mounted on an oil rig derrick.
Visitors stand on a platform surrounded by live energy
production of geo, solar, wind, oil, and gas, which they
smell, feel, hear and see as they operate energy systems
through a control panel, and a voice commands the systems
to store power, give more heat, turn off lights….
This hydrocarbons-renewables bridging technology,
invented for Leduc #1, includes the first deployment in
Canada of leading hybrid-inverter AC-DC technology.
The solar systems are mobile and designed for Alberta’s
oil patch, farmers and harsh climate—renewable energy
is cheaper at remote, off-grid oil fields than trucking in
diesel for generators.
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The project boosts Alberta’s economic diversification.
The renewables are made in Alberta, including Nisku—
one of North America’s biggest energy parks. Inspired by
Leduc #1, these service firms have pivoted to renewables
during this downturn and will use the Living Energy
Project as a showcase for their systems that provide an
alternative to imports from the U.S. and Ontario. The
project, located 10 mins from Edmonton airport, fits into
the Airtropolis plan—building an international hub for
tourism, energy and trade.
Living Energy Project Showcases Albertan Innovation
The Living Energy Project creates a park to showcase
oil industry green & black technologies and Albertan
inventiveness. It creates a platform for future energy
system innovations.
This shovel-ready project has earned international
recognition—Reuters, Huffington Post, CBC, Globe and
Mail—and promotes Canadian energy as clean, lean and
innovative.
It combines The Green & The Black.
A New Partnership—You
Know it Makes Sense
Project Director Nick Wilson Cell 587-938-2889 [email protected]
Project Manager Mitchell Pomphrey Cell 780-938-1116 www.pomphreyindustries.co
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Farmers and Oil Workers Together
The Green & The Black
If only 10% of Alberta’s 78,000 dormant (suspended) wells were converted to geothermal
heating systems for greenhouses, it would create up to 5,000 permanent, year-round farming
jobs, and put thousands of oil service workers back to work. This would be North America’s
biggest oil well to geothermal conversion program. More potential is locked up in Alberta`s
151,000 decommissioned (abandoned) wells.
Research for Agriculture, Oil and Government Policies
The heart of the Living Energy Project is an ultra-smart energy operations platform that
allows:
• Measuring the efficiency and return on investment of the various solar systems we deploy.
• Recording the heat produced from the well, and power used by the geo system.
• Extrapolating these figures, comparing solarity with other regions in AB to calculate what
this pilot would have achieved in other places where there are abandoned wells.
• Comparing this data to historical highs and lows of diesel and propane prices, and
natural gas and power from the grids—the conventional methods of heating and powering
greenhouses.
• Modeling output and costs of different depth wells in various rocks that have different
temperatures.
• Factoring in the distances from propane and diesel distribution centres to abandoned wells
to analyse trucking costs—a major factor in their economics.
• Sharing data with analysts, engineers and scientists around the globe to build their
models—open source so all countries will benefit.
• Volunteering to build and operate this project are subject matter experts, including Phd
students, consultants, farmers and oil workers.
• Creating a world class research station for $1.7 million.
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Imaginea Energy
Win-win for Taxpayers,
Oil Firms & Renewable Energy
The project showcases Alberta’s innovation, green technologies
and their deployment by oil firms. It creates a diverse stakeholder
partnership. The proud brotherhood of Western Canadian service firms
shape this project with new manufacturing, combining renewables
and hydrocarbons using bridging technology.
Alberta is the windiest, sunniest province and has the lowest taxes.
Leduc #1 is Respected and Trusted by the Oil Industry
Leduc#1 Energy Discovery Centre is an accessible, visitor-friendly,
55-acre park where all oil firms can demonstrate their environmental
technology at one site.
Leduc #1 enjoys the support and sponsorship of the oil industry, making
the centre an excellent platform to launch a new way of looking at the
province’s energy resources. The centre’s volunteer board of directors
has a total of more than 400 years’ experience across three continents
in fields including renewables, drilling, oil services, steam boilers,
electrical installation, instrumentation, farming and local government.
The Leduc #1 is a perfect, telegenic, media-friendly site for promoting
energy policies and technology. It will show within a short walking
distance of each other:
The past: Leduc #1 well that changed Canada.
The present: Wind, solar, cogeneration (combined heat and
power), producing oil well and a working rig.
The future: Well to geothermal. Carbon neutral museum.
Site is only 20 mins from Edmonton and 10 mins from the airport.
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A New Partnership
The project will build on the centre’s existing successes:
The world’s only walk-in, 4D, virtual drill bit that takes you deep into
the earth, through the age of dinosaurs to the time of oil.
The largest oil museum in Canada.
The one with a producing oil well, and a working rig.
The one that best tells the story of oil from seismic survey to gas bar.
The one that tells the story of a well: On Feb.13 1947 a telegram didn’t
arrive. A crew set off, expecting to drill their 134th dry hole. Instead
they struck oil—Alberta and Canada would never be the same again.
Returning elated to their skid-shack HQ, they found the telegram.
According to one of the many tales told by centre tour guides who bring
these oil men and women to life, a Saskatchewan blizzard had held it
up by knocking out a telegraph wire. The delayed telegram told them to
stop drilling in Leduc and find some place that might actually have oil.
This is why this heritage site attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year, and in
February 2017, the centre celebrates the discovery’s 70th anniversary.
The Living Energy Project builds on this proud legacy, carrying Leduc
#1’s energy innovation into the 21st Century. It creates a partnership
opportunity between: oil firms, renewable energy firms, farming,
governments—municipality, county and province—and the discovery
centre, which celebrates Alberta’s energy.
The project helps Alberta attract foreign investment into its new energy
mix. It’s creating the province’s first: ultra-smart cogeneration system,
automated solar tracker manufacturer and wind system fabricator;
creating work for oil service firms and a show home for their pride in
developing environmental technology.
Low oil prices = low loonie = more competitive manufactured exports.
“Now is the time to invest in Albertan
clean technology and jobs”
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Abandoned Oil Wells to Geothermal Assets
This system will provide space heating in the museum. The
project principles can be applied to deeper, hotter wells for power
generation. Sundial Energy oil services firm and Advanced Energy
combine their well and geothermal expertise to design this system,
which can be adapted to any oil field.
Helping Small Oil Producers
Many small producers, when they temporarily stop production
due to low oil prices, have to abandon wells at a cost of up to
$300,000 per well, including costly land reclamation, such as
removing a road. This can drive them into bankruptcy. Instead,
if they convert an inactive well to a cheaper geothermal system
by simply putting a greenhouse above it, they can turn a liability
into an asset and stay in business.
Helping Bigger Producers Cut Costs
Oil companies that have buildings near an an inactive well
that are off the gas grid, especially if they are being heated by
electrical heaters, can use geothermal heat to cut costs.
Monitoring Methane Leaks
In 2018, federal regulations to cut methane leaks take effect.
Geothermal systems put a pair of eyes on abandoned wells
24/7—a methane escape immediately triggers a sudden pressure
change in the system. This improves on the current regulations’
mandated abandoned well inspection once every five years.
Canada’s First Smart Geothermal System
The energy operations platform calls out to the geo-system to
change the heat supply by switching its electrical pump speed. This
smooths the centre’s power demand spikes. The principle comes
from oil fields, whose synchronised horse heads nod alternately
instead of together, reducing peak power demand.
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How Oil Firms Can Avoid Steep Power Price Hikes
Transmission tariffs are scheduled to rise 50% across the province to
upgrade and expand the power network, which was planned under the
previous government. The tariff structure will hit large industrial users
the hardest—a 25% jump in their power bills.
The project’s automated energy operations system stores power—wind
speeds are faster at night, and sunny weekends generate power when
businesses are closed—and supplies it at peak demand. Storage lessens
buying from the grid or selling surplus power to it. The system will
model how oil firms can lessen the transmission fee hike.
Powering Alberta’s Economic Diversification—New Manufacturing
Albertan oil service firms take pride in their innovation. They will
make the steel and cement components of the renewable energy
systems. Sonnen Systems Canada, subsidiary of Germany’s Kirchner
Solar Group, has partnered with Pomphrey Industries Corporation
to locally engineer and manufacture North America’s biggest solar
tracker. Leduc #1 will be the showcase for Western Canada’s own
cogeneration, geothermal, wind and solar industries.
Technology Transfer
The project transfers some of the world’s most advanced solar
tracking technology from Europe, including training and certifying
Albertan installers and manufacturers.
From Germany’s Kaco New Energy comes the first deployment in
Canada of leading, hybrid, inverter technology. It dramatically boosts
efficiency, reliability and slashes system costs for integrated solar
power, energy storage and advanced DC power infrastructure.
Fast-tracked to Canada through a special evaluation process, the
hybrid inverters will launch at Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre.
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Canada’s First Total Hybrid HydrocarbonRenewable System
A wind turbine, solar system and a natural gas-fueled cogeneration
unit power the geo-system’s electrical pump that drives the hot water
from the oil well. The wind turbine is atop a purpose-built oil derrick
made by Kel-Terra, a Calgary oil services company.
The hydrocarbons-renewables bridging system uses six sources: wind,
earth, sun, water; gas via a cogeneration unit on windless nights, and
an oil well.
North America’s Largest Solar Tracker
An astronomical control system enables its solar panels to follow the
sun every minute of every day—it swings east to west and changes
angle as the sun rises—generating up to 45% more power than fixed
solar panels.
This rugged system, made for Alberta’s tough climate, tilts to tip
snow off itself.
Its monitor shows meteorological data and what’s happening inside
the electrical circuit.
The tracker can be monitored and operated to optimize output
remotely from anywhere in the world using a cell phone.
It is used at remote sites such as mines and oil fields worldwide.
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The First Living Energy System
Visitors stand surrounded by big screens on three sides.
One shows all forms of power being produced on site as they watch:
geo, wind, solar and gas, and oil from the field that changed Canada.
Another shows an energy map that’s reacting to real time data:
pumps, lights, air con, power dropping as a shadow crosses a solar
array... and the electrical circuits of solar trackers and inverters. The
third measures energy output from all sources, and carbon credits.
As they watch, a voice symbolically commands the system to turn
pumps on, send power to the grid, store power, turn lights off, release
stored power during peak demand....
Geo heat blows over visitors from the system duct; oil smell comes
from a flask near the screens; on the videos horse heads squeak, wind
turbine blades whoosh. They watch a solar tracker on time lapse,
its astronomical program guiding it, and dumping snow off itself.
Punching a button “islands” the building from mains, and a display
shows input power stopping and the system’s units taking over.
Visitors not only see, but smell, feel and hear energy igniting and
illuminating, saving and spending, producing and pumping, selling
and storing, buying and burning, warming and waning... They sense
being inside an almost pulsing, breathing Living Energy System.
The project, and accompanying revenue boost through visitor numbers
and publicity, would create a world-class museum and a major Albertan
tourism site that shows Leduc is #1.
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Energy Conservation
Cogeneration
Aka combined heat and power (CHP), cogen is the simultaneous production
of electrical and thermal energy from one fuel source. The waste heat from
power generation is used for space or water heating. Conversely, waste
heat from gas powered furnaces is used to generate power. Due to the oil
industry’s CHP use, Alberta is Canada’s proud leader in its deployment.
Oil sands operators generate giga watts of power and export it to the grid.
Cogen produces less CO2 than buying coal-fired power from the grid
would. Refining, petrochemical and power plants also deploy CHP. So do
small businesses—especially those that burn a lot of gas. During Calgary’s
floods, restaurants with cogen remained open while grid-dependant rivals
closed.The return on investment is three to four years, and soaring power
transmission fees will improve the payback. A close relative is a natural gas
power generation unit that burns previously vented gas to power pump
jacks, instead of more expensive grid power. The Living Energy System
(LES) signals to a unique cogen system, made by Edmonton oil service
firm Industrial Engines, working with Pomphrey Industries. LES calls to it
for more heat for the building or less power, and uses it to control external
power supplies. Its glass panel shows visitors the internal workings.
LED Lighting
LED lighting uses 75% less energy than incandescent lighting and its bulbs
last 25 times longer and produce more directional, higher–consistency
light—perfect for museums. Leduc #1 has over 1,000 bulbs, so LED slashes
maintenance hours spent changing them, and cuts power costs.
Oil service firms design renewable energy systems for and provide LED
lighting to the oil patch. LED flood lighting is used in oil fields—one project
cut costs from $36,000/month to $6,000. Another Albertan oil service firm,
CLEANTEK Industries, has invented a fuel-sipping hybrid solar-diesel LED
light tower, which illuminates the centre at night as part of the project.
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The Heart of the Living Energy System
The integrated energy system is a solution to the intermittency of wind and solar resources,
climate and the museum’s constantly changing power and heating demands. To increase
efficiency, reduce peak demand, and buffer supply intermittency—moment to moment—it
uses an advanced energy operations platform to supervise, control and visualise energy as it
is generated, consumed and stored.
These are issues that more and more companies face as the province’s energy mix changes
and transmission fees soar to pay for Alberta’s increasing power demand and infrastructure.
Pomphrey Industries, founded by a local Albertan entrepreneur, designed the Living Energy
System to showcase these opportunities to reduce energy costs for industrial clients, including
oil companies, by creating a model that can be applied to their unique energy profiles. In a
collaboration with a technology partner from the University of Alberta, it will deploy the
energy operations platform at Leduc #1, in 2016.
4 Addresses the current energy supply and demand to meet additional capacity
4 Displays the operation of leading Canadian technologies as working museum exhibits
4 Attracts stakeholders, tourists and schools to observe Leduc #1’s energy operations
4 Raises awareness on energy issues and solutions by displaying real time energy data
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First Nations and the Oil Industry—Working Together
In Partnership
The Living Energy Project is a pilot that develops a blue print for converting abandoned
oil wells on reserves and traditional land. Geo-greenhouses could provide northern
communities with fresh vegetables in winter, and cut costs of trucking diesel for generators
across ice roads.
Many Albertan indigenous communities have oil workers who can carry out the well
conversions. The skills base comes from indigenous-owned oil service companies.
The oil industry does $1.5 billion of business a year with Aboriginal-owned businesses,
which are growing in number at 5.5% annually. Alberta’s Fort McKay First Nation
owns many oil service firms. And Aboriginal-owned firms are globalizing—Carillion,
which employs 40,000 people worldwide, owns a 47% stake in Alberta’s
Privately-owned Bouchier, whose many business divisions include oil services.
B.C. also has many First Nation-owned firms, including Eh Cho Dene Enteprises,
a construction company shown at work in the photo.
In Collaboration in Employment and Training
More than 1,500 Aboriginal people directly work in oil sands operations—about 10%
of the oil sands workforce. Many major oil sands companies recruit Aboriginal local
residents. Syncrude and Shell hold Gold Level accreditation by the Canadian Council
of Aboriginal Businesses’ Progressive Aboriginal Relations program. Syncrude is one
of the largest private-sector employers of Aboriginal people in Canada, who account
for around 9% of its workforce. Oil firms also fund scholarships and training.
Thompson Rivers University’s School of Trades and Technology offers a fully funded
Aboriginal Women in Trades program to train them as electricians, pipefitters,
welders, and construction craft workers. Trans Mountain Expansion Project plans to
help fund such programs at the university.
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A New Partnership – You Know it Makes Sense
The Partners
Pomphrey Industries Founded by an Albertan entrepreneur Mitch Pomphrey who designed
the energy operations platform—the hub of all the energy systems deployed.
http://pomphreyindustries.co
NEP Canada ULC supports this project and is transferring the well to the museum. NEP has
also secured donated services from its vendors to make the well ready for geothermal service.
NEP Canada ULC is an oil producer that owns the well and made this project possible.
http://nepcanada.com/
Sunfind Products is a Red Deer firm that engineers, designs and builds solar systems. A key
employee is a veteran oil worker.
http://www.sunfindsolarproducts.com/
Kel-terra is a Calgary steel firm that makes screw piles for the oil industry.
http://www.kel-terra.com/
Advanced Energy
http://www.adv-energy.com/ has 15 years’ experience doing geothermal projects. Advanced
Energy partners with veteran oilman, Jason Edwards, with 15 years’ upstream experience
who founded Sundial Energy Ltd,
www.sundialenergyltd.com, which provides LED lighting and solar solutions to the
oil patch. Sundial works with solar and wind power systems designer and manufacturer
Evolve Green, which has worked with Western Canadian oil firms and has designed oil
patch power systems.
http://www.evolvegreen.ca
True North Power designs wind and solar systems. It was founded by David Cooke, who
keeps as a memento of his father, a plug from Imperial Oil’s Leduc #1 discovery well—his
father worked for Imperial all his life. Two generations, two technologies across two centuries.
http://www.truenorthpower.com/
CLEANTEK Industries Designs and makes technology-based equipment and solutions that
substantially reduce operational cost, labour and carbon footprint.
http://www.cleantekinc.com/
LEP Project Director, Nick Wilson, Editor of Alberta Oil magazine, who has 15 years’ experience,
including renewables, in the Middle East and North America. Professional certificates in Energy
Innovation from Stanford University, and Petroleum Economics
LEP Project Manager, Mitchell Pomphrey, CEO of Pomphrey Industries, a physicist whose
experience includes customized alternative energy systems, advanced energy storage, and a
$16mn consortium project. B.Sc in Physics from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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National and International Support From: Farmers & Oil Workers; Government
Ministers; Cross-party MLAs & MPs; Environmentalists & Academics
Marg McCuaig-Boyd, Minister of Energy – “Albertans
are known worldwide for our ingenuity and cando spirit. We see opportunity where others don’t.
The Living Energy Project at the Leduc Discovery
Centre is an excellent example of how Albertans
are working to create a healthier future for our
province. I extend my congratulations to everyone
behind this transformative project.”
Shannon Phillips, Minister of Environment and
Parks – “Leduc Discovery Centre’s effort is a
demonstration of how Alberta is building on our
traditional strengths in energy development to
take real steps to reduce emissions and create
new opportunities in an increasingly diverse
energy future.”
President and CEO of Petroleum Services
Association of Canada Mark Salkeld – “In order to
fully appreciate the extraordinary achievements of
Canadian energy initiatives and the oilfield services
sector one has to look back to where we started
from, and there is no better way than to recognize
and explore the Leduc Energy Discovery Centre. The
Living Energy Project there highlights the diversity,
innovation and ingenuity of the Canadian energy
industry and in particular shows off the continuing
development of all energy resources, using
renewables to help move us from the past to the
future. Canada is a recognized leader in responsible
energy development and it is Canada’s ongoing
responsibility to raise awareness and share so
everyone can benefit from our efforts. The Living
Energy Project exemplifies this – thank you!”
President and CEO of Canada’s Oil Sands
Innovation Alliance Dan Wicklum – “The Leduc
Energy Discovery Centre showcases industry’s
“anything is possible” attitude. Who would
have imagined horizontal drilling or that oil
laden with sand could be turned into a valuable
resource? Canadians imagined it was possible
and have been discovering solutions to safely
develop energy resources under some of the
toughest conditions, in some of the toughest
geography, and addressing some of the biggest
environmental challenges. The Leduc Living
Energy Project demonstrates Canadian innovation
and collaboration have evolved Canada’s oil and
gas sector, from that single discovery 75 years
ago, to finding the most ingenious engineering
solutions in the world.”
President and CEO of Canadian Association of
Oilwell Drilling Contractors Mark Scholz – “Leduc
#1 is symbolic of the modern Canadian energy
industry. It also symbolizes Albertan and Canadian
innovation, commitment, and perseverance in
finding a better way. As our global energy landscape
continues to evolve, based on our contributions to
date, it is clear Albertans and Canadians will play a
large role in that evolution and the Leduc #1 Living
Energy Project is a testament to that.”
President and CEO of the Canadian Association
of Petroleum Producers Tim McMillan – “The
history of the oil and natural gas industry in
Alberta is one of engineering ingenuity, and the
Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre tells that
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story. It’s a story of consistent improvement and
technological innovation that continues to this day.
Our industry is proud of the responsible manner
in which we develop Canada’s oil and natural gas
resources. How we develop these resources here
in Alberta and Canada serves as a model to other
jurisdictions of how to do it right. Leduc #1 allows
us to share our pride with those who may not be
as familiar with our industry.”
Ed Whittingham, Executive Director, Pembina
Institute – “The Living Energy Project at Leduc
#1 Energy Discovery Centre is both a symbolic
and practical example of the role Alberta can play
as the world transitions to a cleaner economy. It
shows how Albertans have always been at the
forefront of innovation and our perseverance
and resourcefulness. This project demonstrates
the impact we can have not only in responsible
development, but in continued job and prosperity
creation.”
Mayor of Leduc County John Whaley – “From
historical to innovative; Leduc No.1 since its oil strike
69 years ago to this new geothermal announcement
is an example of the pride and ingenuity that
embodies Albertans.”
CEO of oil services firm Sundial Energy Jason Edwards
– “I’ve worked in the oil patch all my life, as a rig worker
and welder. I’ve had to close my welding and H2S
stripping division in the recession, but now I’m focusing
on making LED lighting and solar systems. It’s incredibly
satisfying to be able to rehire guys for the Leduc #1
project and the growing renewables industry.”
Leduc Regional Chamber of Commerce Executive
Director Jennifer Garries – “The Centre has always
been an anchor for tourism in the region, but now
through forward-thinking, they are a leader in
innovation and green technology. We proudly support
our member, Leduc # 1 Energy Discovery Centre.”
Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Association
Executive Director Barbara Engelbart-McKenzie,
who helped connect local service firms to the
project – “The Leduc region is an active and
vibrant hub for innovation in the energy sector.
Our manufacturing companies have thrived and
innovated in the oil and gas industry for years and
now see opportunities to pivot into renewables.
The Leduc #1 project is a primary example of how
manufacturing companies can take advantage of
the opportunities in the renewables marketplace
and how the Leduc region having largest Energy
Manufacturing and Services Industrial Park in Canada
can service the renewables industry with the same
innovation and entrepreneurship that has energized
our oil and gas industry for the last 40 years.”
Mayor of the City of Leduc Greg Krischke – “Leduc
#1 Energy Discovery Centre is a wonderful museum
and demonstration site for everything related to
the oil and gas industry. It’s all about ENERGY and
so this introduction of renewable energy systems
is a natural fit.”
SM University, Texas Geothermal Lab Coordinator
Maria Richards – “Congratulations! Leduc #1 is
achieving with its use of geothermal resources from
an oil well what the US Low Temperature Geothermal
community thought would be common practice by
now. Your lessons learned will help provide us with
the new tools to get it accomplished here.”
Leduc-Beaumont MLA (NDP) Shaye Anderson,
who had the idea of using local oil service firms
to make the renewable energy systems, and to
heat a greenhouse with geothermal heat—his
riding is rural and an oil service hub – “Leduc
#1 is about to show the world that we are an allencompassing energy province. The technology
and innovation that goes on in Alberta is second
to none and highlighting that are local oil service
firms who are at the forefront of economic and
environmental diversification, joining oil and gas
systems with renewable energy systems.”
Local farmer Gordon Schaber – “The Living Energy
Project is a much-needed pilot. Converting disused
wells to geothermal heating systems for greenhouses
will benefit farmers who no longer get lease payments
during the slump.”
Edmonton-Wetaskiwin MP (PC) Mike Lake – “As
Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Wetaskiwin,
I am proud to support the Living Energy Project
at the Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre. The
Discovery Centre has played an important role in
energy education, showcasing decades of Alberta’s
resourcefulness. This new project builds on that role,
highlighting a bright future for energy in Alberta.”
Drayton Valley-Devon MLA (WR) Mark Smith – “In
a province that is so young, having been created as
a province in 1905, we sometimes have to remind
ourselves that we do have a history. The Leduc Energy
Discovery Centre not only celebrates the history of
Energy in Alberta at the historic Leduc #1 site but
it also casts a vision forward into the future of what
energy will look like in the near future in Alberta. The
Living Energy Project speaks not only to our past but
to our future and to the ingenuity of Albertans as they
address our energy requirements through renewable
technology in the geothermal field.”
Nisku Business Association – “The Leduc #1
Energy Discovery Centre is Canada’s largest Oil & Gas
Museum dedicated to energy education, providing a
historical perspective on the development of the oil
and gas industry in Alberta. The Centre’s Living Energy
Project, ‘Renewable Energy & Oil Working Together’,
is a natural fit for the centre as it demonstrates the
progressive, innovative and responsible leadership
of Canada’s energy sector in energy development
and environmental diversification. The Nisku
Business Association congratulates Leduc #1 Energy
Discovery Centre on the addition of the Living Energy
Project to its energy education program.”
Chair of Canadian Geothermal Energy Association
(CanGEA) Alison Thompson – “It is entirely fitting that
Leduc #1 is also the site of Alberta’s first co-produced
fluids style geothermal heat project. Geothermal
energy from the Hot Sedimentary Aquifers in Alberta,
B.C., Saskatchewan, Yukon and Northwest Territories
offer a significant opportunity for renewable power
and heat, as well as enabling local food via geothermal
greenhouses and fish farms. While this concept has
been discussed for years in the industry, the team
at the Leduc Energy Discovery Centre is on their
way to making it a reality. CanGEA is pleased to
support The Living Energy Project’s incorporation of
geothermal heat and is even more pleased that the
oil and gas services industry helped build the facility.
The technology transfer between our two industries
is significant and the deployment of renewable,
geothermal energy in Alberta is a meaningful way to
put the oil patch back to work.”
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