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\nBack in the 1920\u2019s, Dr. Karl Clark\u2019s invention of hot water separation paved the way for today\u2019s development of the Alberta\u2019s oil sands.\n<\/p>\n

\nNow scientists like Roy Coates at the Alberta Research Council are following in Clark\u2019s footsteps as they look for new technologies to remove that sticky bitumen from solid rock or carbonate formations.\n<\/p>\n


\nROY COATES: <\/b>That\u2019s right. It\u2019s almost like starting at the beginning when we started looking at research on oil sands. We\u2019re starting off looking at characterizing what the carbonate reservoir is, trying to understand what they look like, and then getting an idea of what sort of recovery processes we could probably use on them. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\nBitumen in carbonate formations lies too deep to surface mine like oil sands. And as Roy Coates explains, it\u2019s too thick to gush out of the ground.\n<\/p>\n


\nROY COATES: <\/b>It is a bitumen. It doesn\u2019t flow naturally. You have to heat it or do something to it to make it flow. So initially we\u2019re looking at can we apply the same sort of processes which we\u2019re using in oil sand in carbonates? So that will be the first thing that we\u2019ll be looking at. Of course we also have some novel ideas we\u2019ll also be looking at.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat was engineer Roy Coates.\n<\/p>\n


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\nEstablished as the first provincial research organization in Canada, the Alberta Research Council is 85 years old. The Alberta Research Council (ARC) develops and commercializes technologies to give customers a competitive advantage. A leader in innovation, ARC provides solutions globally to the energy, life sciences, agriculture, environment, forestry and manufacturing sectors.
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In January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, the Alberta Research Council was restructured and incorporated into the new provincial agency Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.\n<\/p>\n

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Back in the 1920\u2019s, Dr. Karl Clark\u2019s invention of hot water separation paved the way for today\u2019s development of the Alberta\u2019s oil sands. Now scientists like Roy Coates<\/b> at the Alberta Research Council<\/b> are following in Clark\u2019s footsteps as they look for new technologies to remove that sticky bitumen<\/b> from solid rock or carbonate formations.(Alberta Research Council)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,10,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-research-council","category-energy","category-engineering","category-natural-resources","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\/203roy_coates.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}