Offshore oil, gas and energy research
Research project participants
Historically, COOGER has worked with a broad group of federal, provincial and international organizations, and post-secondary institutions. A list of many of these is below:
Government
Federal
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- National Energy Board
- National Research Council Canada
- Natural Resources Canada
- Transport Canada
Provincial
- Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board
- Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board
International
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
- Environmental Protection Agency, USA
- State Oceanic Administration, China
Universities
- Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
- Dalhousie University
- John Hopkins University, MD, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TX, USA
- McGill University
- Memorial University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA
- Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Queens University
- Department of Chemistry
- School of Environmental Studies
- Rutgers University, NJ, USA
- Saint Mary’s University
- Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA
- Université du Québec
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Sciences de l’environnement [French only]
- University of British Columbia
- University of Miami, FL, USA
- University of Ottawa
- University of South Florida, FL, USA
Other
- Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Science Advisory Group
- Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
- EnvHydro Corporation, USA
- ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, TX, USA
- Genwest Systems Inc., DC, USA
- Huntsman Marine Science Centre, NB, Canada
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Oil being poured into a ring on the water in the COOGER wave tank. This ring is removed just as the first breaking wave arrives. Photo credit: COOGER

A CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) rosette is deployed in the Douglas Channel, British Columbia onboard the CCGS Ricker. The instrument is used to measure seawater properties and collect water samples to conduct a series of microcosm experiments looking at the biodegradation of diluted bitumen.
Features
Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research

Dr. Ken Lee, former Director of COOGER, discussing oil dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico.
COOGER Arctic

Top scientists propose to test oil spill clean-up technologies in the Arctic.
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