Heavy Oil
Field Upgrading/Viscosity Reduction Plant
Links in the left frame provide access to detailed
information about our EADIEMAC Process for heavy oil upgrading and
related services. We encourage enquiries for the application of our EADIEMAC
Process from any producer of heavy oil, onshore or offshore. Partially
upgrading heavy oil in field upgraders utilizing
established visbreaking technology, prior to shipping
by pipeline, is the prime application of our process.
The EADIEMAC Process is a scaleable
type of process that can be engineered for a wide range of heavy oil feedstocks and volumes. Plants of 10,000 -
20,000bbls/day capacity or larger can be located in the field where there is a
concentration of feedstock available. Smaller plants down to 1,000 -
2,500bbls/day can be skid mounted and shipped to the production site.
We specifically request enquiries from heavy oil producers,
onshore or offshore. The concept behind the process is to provide a simple,
inexpensive, easily controlled visbreaker in the
field. This will provide the advantages of refinery technology at low
cost available to producers, at the source. Our EADIEMAC Process significantly
reduces viscosity (see
test results) to eliminate or substantially reduce the need for diluent. In addition it is possible to partially
field upgrade production to take advantage of the price differential between light
and heavy crude oils.
By having a simple refinery capacity in the field there are several opportunities to operate at reduced cost such as:
+ reducing or eliminating the need for natural gas to generate steam for production wells.
+ the ability to remove the very heavy components for further processing thus significantly upgrading the production
+ eliminating or reducing the need for diluent and the related pipelines and transportation costs
+ effectively increasing the product pipeline capacity by the amount of diluent normally required
Note: In the EADIEMAC Process there is no visbreaking or cracking of low boiling fractions (ie. below 300 deg. C )
Patent coverage was obtained
some time ago for the front end elements of the overall EADIEMAC Process.
This portion covers the basic thermal cracking component before
improvements. Other components of the full process are designed to
optimize revenue from the partially upgraded product, adapt to heavier feed
stocks, enhance related field operations and deal with environmental issues.
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