{"id":2356,"date":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-919\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:36:32","slug":"innovation-anthology-919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/12\/05\/innovation-anthology-919\/","title":{"rendered":"#919: Mal Carroll: Syncrude Improves Hydro Transport Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 919.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Mal Carroll is Syncrude&rsquo;s General Manager of Research and Development.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He calls hydro transport an enabling technology.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Syncrude&rsquo;s invention 20 years ago was so successful, it&rsquo;s now used by other oil sands companies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And as Mal Carroll explains, the technology is constantly evolving.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MAL CARROLL: <\/span>&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The technology has been deployed in our North Mine. It&rsquo;s also used in our Aurora Mine now, so that&rsquo;s a second iteration. &nbsp; &nbsp;We&rsquo;re in this mode of continuous improvement where we are continuing to look at how do &nbsp;we &nbsp;improve the technology in order to make it more efficient, more reliable, smaller scale, smaller footprint. &nbsp;I think there&rsquo;s areas for improvement in terms of getting it closer to the mining face. &nbsp;And smaller scale, smaller capital involved in building new hydro transport systems. &nbsp;So getting it closer to the mining face would allow us reduce the number or maybe even eliminate the use of haul trucks. So we&rsquo;re certainly looking at some technology options for the front end of the hydro transport system. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the new forms of hydro transport works in remote sites and is called natural froth lubricity pipelining.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SYNCRUDE.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\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>\u00a02017-12-05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydro transport technology in the oil sands continues to evolve, says Mal Carroll, Syncrude&#8217;s GM of research and development <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-engineering","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\/1-17Syn_MalCarroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}