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.

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

Lauren Savoie

President & CEO

PTAC is powered by people. Our incredible Board and Staff are the driving force facilitating meaningful change across Canada’s evolving energy landscape.

Together, we are proud to unite the innovation ecosystem in advancing a responsible, competitive, and resilient oil and gas sector.

Serving as champions of innovation, PTAC’s Board contributes deep expertise, strong governance, and strategic leadership to PTAC’s activities. Complementing this leadership is a small but highly capable Staff, whose agility and commitment to excellence translates vision into collaborative action.