{"id":2163,"date":"2017-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-843\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T03:26:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T03:26:36","slug":"innovation-anthology-843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/02\/07\/innovation-anthology-843\/","title":{"rendered":"#843: Syncrude Collaboration Improves Technology Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 843.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Collaboration has become an important aspect of research and development among oil sands companies.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Mal Carroll is the new General Manager of Research and Development for Syncrude.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>As he explains, this collaboration has been formalized a consortium called COSIA, the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance.<br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/>MAL  CARROLL: &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Actually sharing and leveraging is a key component to how we  do work here at Research. &nbsp;And COSIA is an organization that is really  focused on developing environmental technologies. And what it does is  it provides an opportunity for like-minded individuals and scientists to  share ideas &nbsp;and provides a framework to collaborate. &nbsp; And the result  is &nbsp;we&#8217;re able to accelerate the pace of the innovation.&nbsp; And all of  our core environmental technologies within reclamation and closure,  water, tailings are shared amongst all the other oil sands companies in  Alberta. &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>According to Mal Carroll, Syncrude&nbsp; also collaborates with academics across Canada and around the world,&nbsp; as well as with other industries<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SYNCRUDE<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Learn more at InnovationAnthology.com<br style=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/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>\u00a02017-02-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaboration helps oil sands companies pick up the pace of innovation, particularly as it pertains to environmental concerns, says Mal Carol, Syncrude&#8217;s GM of R&amp;D <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-energy","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":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-17Mal_Carroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}