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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Tom Corscadden, Calgary, CA;
Greg Diduch, Calgary, CA;
Damien Hocking, Calgary, CA;
Darius Remesat, Calgary, CA;
Jim Kearns, Calgary, CA;
Tom Corscadden, Calgary, CA;
Greg Diduch, Calgary, CA;
Damien Hocking, Calgary, CA;
Darius Remesat, Calgary, CA;
Jim Kearns, Calgary, CA;
MEG ENERGY CORP., Calgary, CA;
Abstract
A process for producing pipeline-ready or refinery-ready feedstock from heavy hydrocarbons using a high-performance solvent extraction process with high local solvent-to-process fluid ratios yet maintaining low overall solvent-to-process fluid ratios, by first performing mild thermal cracking on the heavy hydrocarbons and then separating asphaltene-rich fractions from a resulting thermally affected fluid so that the high solvent-to-oil ratio portion of the process acts only on those asphaltene-rich fractions, and producing a dry, solid asphaltene as an end-product.