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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2018
Applicant:
Syncrude Canada Ltd. IN Trust for the Owners of the Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now and IN the Future, Fort McMurray, CA;
Inventors:
Jun Long, Edmonton, CA;
Jonathan Spence, Edmonton, CA;
Dean Wallace, Sorrento, CA;
Shane Hoskins, Edmonton, CA;
Chung H. Ta, Edmonton, CA;
David Mueller, Edmonton, CA;
Priyanka Pareek, Edmonton, CA;
Assignee:
SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD., Fort McMurray, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/28 (2006.01); C10G 1/04 (2006.01); E21B 49/08 (2006.01); E21C 41/26 (2006.01); B03D 1/02 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); E21B 43/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/2823 (2013.01); B03D 1/02 (2013.01); C10G 1/04 (2013.01); C10G 1/047 (2013.01); E21B 43/2406 (2013.01); E21B 49/08 (2013.01); E21C 41/31 (2013.01); G01N 33/241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided for controlling bitumen recovery from an oil sands ore body in a bitumen extraction process by establishing and using a predictive ore processability model that accounts for multiple ore characteristics in planning ore deliveries from different locations of the ore body to produce a blended ore feedstock.