some specifics from the articles.....

Luxmux's solution is expected to provide a reduction in 1 megaton of CO2 per year, and increase revenue by $5 million per year per boiler for heavy oil producers.

While the device itself is not expensive, the task of installing it in a boiler pass (where the steam is produced; each SAGD boiler has four passes) costs approximately $80,000.

Luxmux anticipates the technology will find wider use. “We can also install at the pad sites; there are about 4,000, he notes.

In addition to the oilsands, other parts of the oil and gas sector are intrigued by the spectrometer. “Pipeline companies are interested in the device as it can be designed to measure H2S [hydrogen sulfide], water vapour, and gas chromatography [GC] in many points of their transportation system,” says Dattner. “We call it GC on a stick.