About
- Water usage is fundamental to the processing of oil sands
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The industry is only 45 years old starting with Suncor in 1965
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ATSI brings 27 years continuous experience The single longest in the industry
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Collectively with its associates this translates in over a hundred person years
ATSI’s achievement in the industry can be measured in different ways. A important one is its continuous use over the last 8 years by the companies shown in the Client List.
Who We Are:
MIKE ROGERS
Water Treatment Consultant
Mike has over 44 years experience in all aspects of industrial water management. He spent the last 27 years in the Oilsands Industry with 20 of these years at Syncrude Canada. He also has complementary experience in refinery process-side corrosion, fouling control, and extensive utilities experience especially as it relates to high pressure boiler tube failure prevention. Mike has gained a thorough knowledge of water management for both SAGD and open pit oil sands operations. He is considered an expert in his field in water balance and ionic predictive modeling (Matlab and Simulink), boiler feedwater treatment, cooling water treatment, wastewater treatment, potable water treatment, water treatment for recycle and reuse, issues with water management and tailings for the oilsands industry, boiler tube failure prevention, water-side and process-side corrosion control programs, and engineering and operator training in all the above areas. Mike has served as the past chairman of the Industrial Water Treatment Group at NACE, International and past chairman of the Water Treatment Group at the Canadian Oilsands Network for Research and Development. He currently serves as the Chair, NACE Water Conservation and Reuse Group. He has published extensively with Syncrude Research, NACE, International, International Water Conference (IWC), and Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI).
Mike is in the unique position of having the longest direct experience in all the issues associated with water usage in the open-pit oil sands industry in particular and the SAGD industry in general. Mike is currently a specialist consultant in these areas to many major oil companies and engineering companies. His 44 years of water treatment experience includes 20 years at Syncrude Canada and the last four years consulting for ALL of the remaining companies involved in oil sands development. He is the recognized expert in the industry.
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JAMES E. LITTLE, P. ENG.
Chemical Engineer with over thirty years experience in oil sands and bitumen processing including process design, project management, training and facilitating.
OIL SANDS AND HEAVY OIL RELATED: Bitumen Upgrading Conceptual design, project management, process engineering and plant operations in delayed coking, hydrotreating, hydrogen production, H2S removal, sulphur recovery, catalyst loading, unloading and disposal, tank farm and offsites operation.
Power Generation - coke-fired steam generation and water treatment, electrostatic precipitation.
Bitumen Extraction - hot water extraction and tailings pond.
Pipeline - rupture and oil spill clean up, tailings.
ENGINEERING RELATED: Project management of engineering, procurement and construction. Process design delayed coker, nitrogen, ambient air heating with waste steam.
OTHER OIL AND GAS RELATED PROJECTS: Project management of crude processing, refrigeration and gas separation including compressor house.
ENVIRONMENT RELATED: Project management of ultrafiltration of tailings water, tailings pond deterrent for migrating birds, off-plot sulphur baseline studies, post rupture land and pipeline rehabilitation, creek re-routing, "lost" pipeline location, remote air monitoring stations.
PETROCHEMICAL RELATED (laboratory): Ethylene, polyethylene, methanol, cumene/phenol /acetone
OFFSHORE RELATED: Manned diving systems, development of remote operated underwater vehicle (ROV) tools.
TRAINING RELATED: Instructor / Facilitator Investigations, risk assessment, troubleshooting, decision making, root cause analysis, time management, priority setting, facilitators.
POSITIONS HELD: Manager, Research and Development; Manager, Business Development; Development Engineer; Project Manager; Project Engineer; Staff Engineer; Tank Farm Supervisor; Operations Engineer; Process Development Engineer; Process Engineer; Laboratory Technician, Facilitator and Instructor.
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MIKE MACKINNON
Oil Sands Water Expert
Mike has spent his career becoming expert in aquatic issues facing oil sands developments. He offers a skill set of and a track record for problem-solving of all facets of aquatic issues, including process impacts, characterization, environmental assessments and reclamation options of waters. His industrial experience specialized on water challenges associated with the surface oil sands operations in the Athabasca Oil Sands of northern Alberta.
His academic studies led him to a Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography at Dalhousie University where his main research interest was the dissolved organic fractions in marine environments. This was followed by a three year stint in a Marine Analytical Standards program at NRC’s Atlantic Regional Lab in Halifax, N.S.
Heading west to be part of Alberta’s oil sands, Mike spent 30 years conducting research at Syncrude Canada Ltd. His project portfolio was directed towards understanding and solving environmental challenges of water management in the oil sands industry and mitigation of their detrimental properties. In his studies, he played a pivotal role in the development of reclamation and water treatment options that are applicable to the oil sands region. As a Research Associate at Syncrude’s Edmonton Research Centre, he focused on the full cycle of aquatic issues of an oil sands operation from:
Impact of ore properties and processing activities on water, known as OSPW (oil sands process-affected water), Role of tailings and water management on water quality, Development of environmental studies to assess water quality, defining performance criteria and evaluating reclamation options, Mitigation of detrimental properties of OSPW through treatments, both passive bioremediation and engineered options.
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ANTHONY MORT, P. ENG.
Forty-six years technical, engineering and supervisory/managerial experience in petroleum (oil sands), utilities and iron and steel industries.
Major technical application - fuel technology, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluidmechanics and process control.
Process plant conceptual design/development, economic investment evaluation, basic design, construction and project management.
Extensive hands on plant operations, commissioning and troubleshooting experience gained from technician to senior technical specialist levels.
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KEVIN DRAKE, P. ENG.
Professional Chemical Engineer with a specialized background in water treatment processes, SAGD produced water treatment, water treatment plant design, and wastewater treatment plant design. Over 20 years experience in water and wastewater treatment processes, which include:
° SAGD produced water treatment and boiler feedwater treatment
° Warm and Hot Lime Softening design for OTSG boiler feedwater
° Total water and wastewater plant design
° Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Plant Design
° Membrane water and wastewater treatment processes (ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis)
° Saline (brackish) water treatment
° Boiler feedwater treatment
° Raw water treatment (clarification, filtration and lime softening)
° Secondary biological treatment processes for wastewater treatment
° Plant process commissioning
° Pilot Plant Work: Supervision and Technical Evaluation
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DAVID BROMLEY, M. ENG, P. ENG
President, David Bromley Engineering Ltd., 1980 to Present
Consulting Practice involved in municipal and industrial water treatment
Specialized in the review of new technologies and businesses involved in the water treatment industry, development of sustainable communities and the technology to service those communities
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