On June 28, 2008, CiDRA – a company with a focus on flow technologies – announced plans to address the company’s continued expansion of its oil sands business in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada through a newly created subsidiary corporation, CiDRA Oilsands. Since it began serving the oil sands industry in 2003, CiDRA has launched a series of innovative products and services, based on SONARtrac® and SMARTringTM technologies, tailored to meet the unique challenges of its customers involved in surface mining operations. These solutions are focused to help customers increase plant and process predictability, reduce process variability and enhance resource sustainability.
Oil sands slurries present numerous process and operational challenges unique to oil sands companies based in Athabasca. “The formation of a separate company whose sole mission is to provide ongoing technology innovation and differentiated information that help enable our customers to increase overall operating and process efficiencies, is a tangible demonstration of our commitment to the industry,” says John Viega, Vice President and General Manager of CiDRA Oilsands. Roman Malina, Director of Sales based in Alberta adds, “as a supplier-partner to our customers, we need to understand the demands and challenges that our customers face day in and day out – and to listen to what they will need well into the future. Establishing a separate subsidiary and focusing our investments and resources squarely on our customers’ needs is one way we can continue to bring innovative tools and services that help them add value to their operations and stakeholders.”
CiDRA is headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut with an increasing number of international offices. CiDRA’s SONARtrac flow technology uses measurement principles that are, according to the company, distinct from all other flowmeter technologies operating today and is suited for measuring flow in difficult slurry applications. CiDRA products and services are being used by over 250 customers in 21 countries.
