Almost 2,000 staff from throughout the corporate gathered in Calgary to share concepts and data to assist determine new applied sciences with the potential to disrupt the vitality business or enhance our enterprise.
“The summit is a chance to showcase innovation throughout the corporate, to encourage folks but additionally to attach folks so hopefully they will apply a know-how they see in a single space to a different,” says Rob Baillargeon, Director of Innovation at Cenovus.
Drilling the nation’s deepest nicely was simply one of many concepts mentioned on the summit.
Jeremy Wolfe, a Senior Employees Integrity Engineer inside our Downstream Operations, additionally offered his group’s newest software – a robotic that may be lowered as much as 30 meters right into a storage tank to securely examine its structural integrity.
“The robots have a number of key features they carry out – the largest one is that they remove the necessity for confined area entry,” says Jeremy. “Truthfully, the probabilities are limitless. They’re nice at gathering very detailed, correct info for us and may even create a 3-D map of the tank backside.”
As a part of our work to enhance our environmental efficiency, Karo Afiegbe, a Employees GHG Tech Engineer, confirmed off new strategies of creating carbon seize and storage (CCS) extra environment friendly.
“Given the monetary hurdles associated to massive carbon seize tasks, we’re discovering various, easy-to-construct applied sciences that we will combine with our property which can be extra economical,” he says.
Whereas the summit targeted on improvements being developed by Cenovus workers, it additionally included worldwide audio system who’ve labored for Disney and Netflix, discussing breakthroughs at their corporations.
“It simply goes to point out that Cenovus’s leaders are supporting a tradition of innovation and concepts right here,” says Gayle Fontaine, a Mineral Lands Contract Advisor. “I believe it’s actually necessary for folks to be heard and have the assets they want.”
“Truthfully, that is necessary,” says Patrick Quan, a Challenge Controller for Offsite Tasks. “It reveals that the corporate values innovation and the necessity for folks to innovate.”
The summit is a superb demonstration of how Cenovus makes use of information, info know-how, geosciences, engineering, arithmetic and lots of different disciplines to unravel complicated issues and develop our assets safely, responsibly and effectively.
“We make this enterprise look too straightforward typically, however there are some extraordinarily proficient and passionate those that drive this enterprise to be as profitable as it’s,” says Rob Baillargeon. “Innovation is essential to remaining aggressive. The truth that we will nonetheless produce a barrel of oil for comparable prices that we have now been for the previous 5 to 10 years, regardless of rising prices in all different aspects of life, is a testomony to the worth of innovation.”
