C-FER is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Alberta Innovates. We operate with a fee-for-service, self-sustaining business model. C-FER has a staff of 100 people in two large-scale testing facilities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For over 35 years, we have helped our clients tackle their most challenging technical problems to improve safety, operational efficiency and environmental performance.
In tackling these challenges, C-FER Technologies utilizes our varied expertise in engineering analysis and large-scale testing, with a focus on safe execution, independent results, and quality deliverables.
We are often called upon to be the “First” to perform a new analysis, set-up a test that has never been tried, or create new ways of solving a unique problem.
Being First we must often develop new design methods; establish new testing, analysis and risk assessment procedures; build new research infrastructure to simulate extreme operating conditions; and draft new industry standards.
Often, we also help industry clients develop “first-of-its-kind” technologies, processes, and procedures. Some examples include: developing artificial islands for offshore Arctic drilling in Canada’s Beaufort Sea; qualifying heavy-wall line pipe for the first proposed ultra-deepwater pipeline from Oman to India; developing design software for progressing cavity pumping systems that help to revolutionize heavy oil production in Canada’s oil sands; introducing quantitative risk assessment methods for pipeline companies around the world; developing new qualification procedures for equipment in thermal and geothermal wells; and establishing comprehensive failure tracking processes for artificial lift systems.
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