Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Owen Neiman

Jonathan Spence

Robert Siy

Simon Yuan

Brent Max Hilscher

Ron Siman

Brent Hilscher

There is provided a method including: combining storage pond tailings with a heated tailings stream to form a tailings mixture, the storage pond tailings having a temperature and a solids content and the tailings mixture having a resulting solids content less than the solids content of the storage pond tailings; and treating the tailings mixture to recover bitumen therefrom.

Bitumen recovery from oil sands tailings

A method and apparatus for recovering bitumen as froth from a feed stream having solids, water and bitumen is provided using a separating vessel having mounted thereon a downpipe assembly, the downpipe assembly having at least one downpipe and a nozzle in fluid communication with each downpipe, for aerating a stream of middlings withdrawn from the separating vessel and reintroducing the aerated middlings back to the separating vessel.

Enhanced bitumen flotation

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Fort McMurray, Canada

Owen Neiman