The Imperial Oil-Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Oil Sands Innovation has a mission to generate breakthrough technologies that will revolutionize the productivity and sustainability of oil sands operations.
AICISE brings together many of the world's leading innovative scientists, industry and other partners to develop more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable processes and practices for in situ (in place) recovery and upgrading of Alberta's oil sands resource, with extremely low to zero environmental impacts.
The AACI program enables industry to minimize its risk and development costs and maintain technology leadership and in developing technology required for field applications.
The National Centre for Upgrading Technology (NCUT) is Canada's premier Canada-Alberta science and technology (S&T) organization for upgrading bitumen and heavy oil into synthetic crude oil. NCUT's activities seek to develop new and improved bitumen and heavy oil upgrading technologies that are less energy intensive, produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and result in higher quality, cleaner fuels at lower costs.