Temple Mountain Energy Adds Bower to Executive Staff
MINNEAPOLIS -- Temple Mountain Energy (http://www.templemountainenergy.com) has announced the recent addition of David J. Bower, developer of the Diablo Mixing & Separation System technology, to the Minneapolis-based company's executive staff.
Bower serves as vice president, Technology & Processes for TME and is responsible for the company's modular process development and "downstream in-circuit" methods and technology.
Bower leads the company's process development team that is directing the start up of TME's 500 barrel-per-day pilot project at its oil sands production site near Vernal, Utah.
"We're very fortunate to attract someone of Dave's technical background and innovative process development capability," said Jim Runquist, TME's chairman and chief executive officer. "The Diablo technology that Dave developed and brings to TME is critical to the success of our company's oil sands pilot project and, ultimately, to the commercial development of TME's oil sands production process."
A native of Stanton By Bridge (Derbyshire), England, Bower is an engineering polymath with wide experience in commercial, industrial and environmental research applications encompassing a wide variety of industries. Bower also has more than 15 years of R&D experience in addressing international waste/containment issues. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the Open University and a masters degree in energy and sustainable development.
Initially incorporated in the State of Minnesota in 1998, TME is dedicated to the development of innovative technical solutions to offset the United States' growing dependency on foreign sources of energy - primarily the billions of proven barrels of heavy bitumen oil lodged in oil sands fields located throughout North America.
"Heavy oil, being highly viscous, restricts the flow from the reservoir to well bore and is difficult to bring to the surface using conventional oil production methods, and that's why much of the oil sands are surfaced mined," Bower explained.
"TME is combining the Diablo Mixing & Separation System with a second enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology," he added. "Together, they represent 'the process' that TME is developing for the surface mining of oil sands; this results in sand and oil being separated with significant reductions in the viscosity and improved API gravity - or quality -- of the oil."
Every aspect of TME's operation is designed to revitalize hydrocarbon assets stranded in sub-surface sands.
"This is our core business," Runquist explained. "It allows direct focus on precisely the kind of expertise and outsourcing needed to make such oil sands assets economically successful."
Contacts
LEH Communications, LLC
Lynn Hohensee, 337-794-4809
lhohensee@netcommander.com
or hohensee@templemountainenergy.com
Bower serves as vice president, Technology & Processes for TME and is responsible for the company's modular process development and "downstream in-circuit" methods and technology.
Bower leads the company's process development team that is directing the start up of TME's 500 barrel-per-day pilot project at its oil sands production site near Vernal, Utah.
"We're very fortunate to attract someone of Dave's technical background and innovative process development capability," said Jim Runquist, TME's chairman and chief executive officer. "The Diablo technology that Dave developed and brings to TME is critical to the success of our company's oil sands pilot project and, ultimately, to the commercial development of TME's oil sands production process."
A native of Stanton By Bridge (Derbyshire), England, Bower is an engineering polymath with wide experience in commercial, industrial and environmental research applications encompassing a wide variety of industries. Bower also has more than 15 years of R&D experience in addressing international waste/containment issues. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the Open University and a masters degree in energy and sustainable development.
Initially incorporated in the State of Minnesota in 1998, TME is dedicated to the development of innovative technical solutions to offset the United States' growing dependency on foreign sources of energy - primarily the billions of proven barrels of heavy bitumen oil lodged in oil sands fields located throughout North America.
"Heavy oil, being highly viscous, restricts the flow from the reservoir to well bore and is difficult to bring to the surface using conventional oil production methods, and that's why much of the oil sands are surfaced mined," Bower explained.
"TME is combining the Diablo Mixing & Separation System with a second enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology," he added. "Together, they represent 'the process' that TME is developing for the surface mining of oil sands; this results in sand and oil being separated with significant reductions in the viscosity and improved API gravity - or quality -- of the oil."
Every aspect of TME's operation is designed to revitalize hydrocarbon assets stranded in sub-surface sands.
"This is our core business," Runquist explained. "It allows direct focus on precisely the kind of expertise and outsourcing needed to make such oil sands assets economically successful."
Contacts
LEH Communications, LLC
Lynn Hohensee, 337-794-4809
lhohensee@netcommander.com
or hohensee@templemountainenergy.com
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