About

PTAC at a Glance

For nearly three decades, PTAC has helped drive operational performance, environmental management, and cost-effective innovation across Canada’s oil and gas sector.
As a neutral, industry-led innovation hub, PTAC bridges the gap between real-world industry challenges and practical technology solutions, helping to reduce investment risks, facilitate access to funding, and support the transition of ideas into field-demonstrated solutions.
Here’s how PTAC delivers real-world impact for its Members across Canada’s energy innovation landscape—through our Vision, our Mission, and our Values.

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Our Mission

How we deliver impact: PTAC drives and fuels industry collaboration and innovation for a stronger, cleaner, and more competitive Canadian oil and gas future.

Our Vision

What we aspire to become: To be the go-to innovation hub for Canada’s oil and gas industry, facilitating and advancing value-added research, technology development, and deployment.

Our Values

Our core values guide our actions and decisions, reflecting the principles that make PTAC a trusted partner in promoting industry engagement and driving technology development.

Innovation in Action: Improving efficiency, competitiveness, and safety, while advancing sustainability through groundbreaking technology.

Competitive by Design: Reducing costs, maximizing recovery, and driving global performance to ensure Canada’s oil and gas sector remains globally competitive.

Stronger Together: Uniting industry, researchers, and innovators to tackle challenges head-on.

Impact-Driven: Managing and facilitating solutions that matter, focusing resources on game-changing innovations that deliver measurable results.

Responsible Leadership: Prioritizing an oil and gas sector that is economically strong, technologically advanced, and environmentally responsible – creating value for all stakeholders, including meeting the demands of diverse international markets.

Accelerating Change: Driving the rapid adoption and deployment of cutting-edge technology to fuel industry-wide progress and position Canada as a global leader in the oil and gas sector.

Our History

Since 1996, PTAC has continually fostered a collaborative innovation ecosystem ​for a stronger, sustainable and more competitive Canadian energy future.

PTAC’s Origin Story

Pooling Resources in the Conventional Oil and Gas Industry

Meet The Team

Lauren Savoie

CEO
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PTAC BOARD

CHAIR

Matt Bryan

Canada Land Managing Director SLB
CHAIR ELECT

Meera Nathwani-Crowe

Manager, Technology & Innovation Canadian Natural Resources Limited
PAST CHAIR

Cheryl Trudell

Joint Interest Production Manager Imperial Oil
DIRECTOR

Anders Nygren

Dean, Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary
BOARD OBSERVER

Bryan Helfenbaum

Vice President of Clean Energy Alberta Innovates
DIRECTOR

Craig Stenhouse

Principal and Founder
Shift Critical
DIRECTOR

Ken Putt

Independent
DIRECTOR

Kevin Stashin

Independent

DIRECTOR

Martin Foy

Chief Operations Officer
Alberta Energy Regulator
DIRECTOR

Nannette Ho-Covernton

Executive Director
The etc Foundation
BOARD OBSERVER

Nicole Harbauer

Trade Commissioner
Global Affairs Canada
DIRECTOR

Nicole Koosmann

VP Safety, Engineering & Audit
BC Energy Regulator
DIRECTOR

Scott Volk

Director of Emissions & Innovation Tourmaline Oil Corp.
DIRECTOR

Tatyana Lambert

Vice President Finance
Northback

PTAC STAFF

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Allan Fogwill

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Marc Godin, MBA, P.Eng

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Braden Kimoff

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Christine Hoeppner

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Diana Semyonov

TECHNICAL LIBRARY CURATOR

Julia Weissenberger

OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Katie Cheyne

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Lorie Mayes

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Marianna Trujillo, MSc.

EIT

Meron Tegegn

ACCOUNTANT

Santosh Kumar