Saving sour bitumen

angel in fireA surprise to some operators, H2S shows up in thermal bitumen operations. How do you cheaply deal with sour bitumen?

With AppIntel, you can find details of new heavy oil and bitumen projects from their regulatory applications. Imagine searching through application documents like Google. That's AppIntel.

One company is field testing a new proprietary Sulphur recovery process that can handle bitumen and heavy oil. By introducing inexpensive intermediary reagents, he hope to prove their process effective and economic.

He believes his process will remove Sulphur and inexpensively improve bitumen quality to the point where no diluent is needed.

Check out page 14 for a description of their proprietary process and reagents. Also contained are the benefits of the process over other operations.

Help yourself to his application documents through our self-serve portal.

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Keep abreast of new developments in heavy oil treating

Wouldn't it be nice to instantly hear when a competitor tries a new recovery strategy in the field? AppIntel keeps you up to speed.

For example, this operator's subsequent applications for results of his efforts to broaden the range of inlet hydrocarbons.

Details of new recovery technology are disclosed in regulatory applications. The regulator is a very picky adjudicator. They want all the technical details. You can see it all through AppIntel.

You can have new applications within 20 miles of your operation sent to you as soon as they are submitted. These area alerts are delivered daily.

You can have new relevant applications anywhere in Alberta send to you instantly. Just set up hit alerts for a few words like thermal bitumen.

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Applications show the actual UWI locations of the proposed operation. Using these locations, you can review injection and production history and draw your own conclusions about success or failure of the field trial.

Tags: Thermal, Cut costs, Facilities, Heavy Oil

Granger Low  30 Nov 2018



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