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Warren Dowd CEO Envoy Energy Partners, Calgary, AB

Warren Dowd

CEO Envoy Energy Partners

Waren Dowd has spent the last 15 years in venture capital and energy and industrial technology commercialization and is involved in new enhanced oil recovery technologies here in North America as well as the Middle East and Latin America. A founding director of an oilsands technology being deployed in the US, he has been looking for better ways for cleaner, more effective heavy oil production.

Dowd says, “I’d been researching a variety of new chemical in-situ solutions [and] obtained the rights for an environmentally friendly Enhanced Oil Recovery chemical … [it’s] non-toxic and can be recycled, injected directly with steam … essentially an excellent interfacial tension reducer, so it allows the operator to access [and produce] more oil.” What is interesting to heavy oil producers is the opportunity to use much less steam.

Envoy Energy hopes to pilot the technology first in Canada, but they are also sharing discussions with groups in Oman and Venezuela. “We believe this type of simple technology could have profoundly positive effects in heavy oil-producing countries.”

Motivated by the knowledge that current resources could be exploited to greater extents, Dowd saw clearly that environmentally sound ways to advance the production of existing resources, improve drainage in SAGD operations, and reduce the carbon footprint could only be a win-win situation. “There has been some very negative publicity around both the oil sands and fracking … the key will be to find those technologies which are not detrimental to the environment.”

The CEO goes on to say, “Every new technology faces similar obstacles: … funding and finding a great team to execute … But by overcoming skepticism, rallying a team, and understanding where the commercial aspect of technology application is best suited to your industry partner … and industry as a whole, [garner] greater chances of successes. Believe in yourself and your team and never give up.”

“Innovation in the oil sands has had a major impact, not only on the GDP of Canada and the jobs it provides, but also to our standing globally as an oil and gas producer and innovator … I believe these types of technology impacts will continue over the next decade, especially in the area of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques and applications.”

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30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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