{"id":2166,"date":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-844\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T03:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T03:26:16","slug":"innovation-anthology-844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/02\/09\/innovation-anthology-844\/","title":{"rendered":"#844: Syncrude Among Top Spenders on Research &#038; Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 844.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to investing in research and development, Syncrude is consistently among the top corporate spenders in Canada.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>In 2016, Syncrude spent over $58 million dollars &nbsp;on R&amp;D. &nbsp;<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>The company was also &nbsp;recently recognized as being among Canada&#8217;s top 20 corporations, having<br style=\"\" \/>spent over $1.1 billion dollars on research in the period 2001 to 2015. <br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Mal Carroll is Syncrude&#8217;s General Manager of Research.<br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/>MAL  CARROLL: &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well first of all I&#8217;ll say that Research and Development, we  were the first department at Syncrude in 1964. &nbsp;So that would be 14  years before we actually produced a single barrel of &nbsp;oil. &nbsp;And the  first part of our focus was, of course, how do we take that oil sand ore  and turn that into oil. &nbsp; &nbsp;We have as of today 183 patents. &nbsp;So  actually this was, last year, 2016, was an incredible year. &nbsp;We had over  18 patents that were awarded. <\/span>&nbsp;<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Mal  Carroll says two of Syncrude&#8217;s many oil sands highlights include  hydrotransport for bitumen and artificial fens for reclaiming the  landscape.<br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"\" \/>Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SYNCRUDE<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Learn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><br style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-02-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 15 years, Syncrude has spent more than 1.1 billion dollars on oil sands research and development, says Mal Carroll.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-funding","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3-17Mal_Carroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}