In addition to the considerable support and expertise provided by its investors, GreatPoint Energy has also established working partnerships and collaborations with a number of well respected research, development and commercial organizations. 

AERI works with industry and other government ministries to promote innovation and technology that will enable Alberta's energy sector to evolve. AERI provides strategic direction to position Alberta for the future in energy development, and invests in research and technology to enhance the sustainable development of the province's abundant energy resources. More information about AERI can be found at www.aeri.ab.ca.

Together GreatPoint Energy and the Alberta Energy Research Institute are to collaborate on the development and scale-up of GreatPoint Energy’s bluegas™ technology for converting petroleum coke, a waste product from oil sands upgraders, into high-value, clean, pipeline quality natural gas in the province.  In the first phase of the collaboration, AERI will provide $3 million of funding for GreatPoint Energy’s program of laboratory and bench-scale analysis, pilot plant testing and commercial project evaluation.   AERI is an arm of the Alberta provincial government that promotes energy research, technology evaluation and technology transfer as part of its Hydrocarbon Upgrading Demonstration Program (HUDP). The HUDP supports selected joint Alberta-Industry initiatives to develop and demonstrate advanced technologies for upgrading Alberta's coal, bitumen and heavy oil resources to high value products.  GreatPoint Energy and AERI are currently in discussions around the next phase of the project to support a large-scale demonstration facility in Alberta, which GreatPoint Energy has begun designing.