Heavy crude and tar sands: Hydrocarbons for the 21st century. Volume 4, Upgrading, government and environment

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:10147848

Meyer, R F ^[1]

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1. ed.; Geological Survey, Washington, DC (United States)

The 46 reports in Volume 4 begin with a section in the all-important subject of upgrading. Seventeen papers deals with upgrading of heavy oil and bitumen involving either of two basic processes, hydrogen addition or carbon rejection. Another five reports deal with the treatment of the oil in upgrading process through demetallization and by coprocessing with coal or lignite. The two papers on the Imulsion process present both the technology and the field experiences developed to transport and produce ORIMULSION{trademark}, the fuel developed with the bitumen from the Orinoco Belt. Seven papers in the section on environmental impacts are directed specifically to heavy oil. These deal mostly with the upgrading process, although one addresses the vexing problems of the refusal of extraction fines to settle out of tailings ponds in oil sand processing. A principal objective of the Centre is the fostering of technical cooperation between countries and the transfer of technological expertise in the area of heavy oil and natural bitumens from countries with advanced technology to those with undeveloped resources. The five reports in the section on Marketing and Economics carefully consider the demand in the context of world oil supply. Economic incentives is the stage for the final section of the volume, Government Policies and Legal Considerations. One of these reports presents an excellent review of the Venezuelan oil industry and its major efforts to promote the exploitation and utilization of heavy crude oil. Another of the reports describes ways in which the leasing procedures in Alberta may be modified to make the development of oil sands more effective. A third paper outlines procedures a company may usefully follow in order to most efficiently undertake the entire process of obtaining and developing oil sands leases. Individual papers have been processed separately for the database.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG22-91BC14800
• OSTI ID: 10147848
• Report Number(s): CONF-9108240--Vol.4; ON: UN93012091; ISBN 0-7732-0635-3
• Country of Publication: Venezuela
• Language: English

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