Eadie Technology Inc. specializes in modular plants for efficient heavy oil upgrading at production sites.
The initial 2000 bbl/day demonstration plant, #EM-1, is designed as a dual purpose plant. Firstly, it is a stand-alone commercial project. Secondly it is suitable as a test bed for various heavy oil feedstocks and blending combinations to meet varying heavy oil properties. Modular plants of 15,000 bbl/day are the planned scaled up commercial units.
EADIEMAC PROCESS FOR HEAVY OIL PARTIAL UPGRADING
Modular Heavy Oil Solutions
EADIEMAC: Modular Partial Upgrading for Heavy Oil and Bitumen
Developed by Eadie Technology Inc., Edmonton, Alberta
Eadie Technology Inc. has developed EADIEMAC, a partial upgrading process that reduces the viscosity of heavy oil and bitumen at the production site. It uses a molten-salt heat-transfer loop and mild thermal cracking (visbreaking), with no external hydrogen. Removing roughly 30% of the resid fraction lowers the diluent needed to meet pipeline specifications.
Lower diluent: Less diluent means more of the pipeline carries bitumen.
Low capex: Approximately $7,500 per daily barrel of capacity (CAD), installed on site, with modular skid-mounted plants built in town and shipped to the site.
Scalable: A 2,000 bbl/day demonstration plant (EM-1) comes first, followed by commercial modules of up to 15,000 bbl/day.
Engineering-ready: A full set of fabrication-style drawings for the 2,000 bbl/day plant already exists.
The process builds on early work in US patent 5,110,447 and Canadian patent 1313639, with new improvements being patented in 2026.
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Modular skid-mounted plants2,000bbl/day --> 15,000bbl/day