CERI to share research with stakeholders
CARRIE KELLY The Pipeline
The Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) is returning to its roots to focus more on research that will be shared with everyone.
“It was decided it is time to take the Institute back to the way it was originally intended,” explains Peter Howard, interim president and CEO of the organization. “Because we are now fully funded by government and industry, all of the work that we do will be made public. In the past, not everything we did was made public. There were some contracts we undertook that were kept confidential because it was at the client’s discretion as to whether they wanted it made public.”
The restructuring is already in effect. “The other change that has taken place is
that the board of directors will appoint an external advisory board. They will set the research agenda based on what needs to be looked at and what is missing, taken from suggestions from members and government,” says Howard.
Customer-specific research will no longer be conducted.
The research undertaken will fall under the general categories of oil and gas, narrower than has been undertaken in the past. After a peer review of the research, all documents will be made public.
“The primary method is through the website and press releases,” Howard says. “We also release information through breakfasts and lunches where people can hear a presentation and see a slideshow and take the report home.”
The Government of Alberta provides some
funding for the Energy Research Institute and CERI is hoping more provinces will step up with dollars.
“Right now, for our current fiscal year, our research budget is $1.5 million. The intention is to grow that and we are seeking additional funding from other entities,” Howard says.
About one-third of CERI’s money comes from industry, with the other two-thirds from government.
Howard says that the research that will be taken on will be for the purpose of delving deeper into a given subject or investigating new subjects for the benefit of the community at large.
“I think on a go forward basis CERI is going to become more responsive and more out front of the subject matter than we have been in the past,” he says.
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