CA2029795A1 - Pipeline conditioning process for mined oil-sand - Google Patents

Pipeline conditioning process for mined oil-sand

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CA2029795A1
CA2029795A1 CA 2029795 CA2029795A CA2029795A1 CA 2029795 A1 CA2029795 A1 CA 2029795A1 CA 2029795 CA2029795 CA 2029795 CA 2029795 A CA2029795 A CA 2029795A CA 2029795 A1 CA2029795 A1 CA 2029795A1
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sand
pumped
slurry
conditioning process
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George J. Cymerman
Antony H. S. Leung
Waldemar B. Maciejewski
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Alberta Province Department of Energy and Natural Resources
Gulf Canada Ltd
Hbog Oil Sands LP
Petro Canada Inc
Imperial Oil Resources Ltd
Nexen Inc
Ovintiv Canada ULC
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03B—SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS
    • B03B9/00—General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets
    • B03B9/02—General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets specially adapted for oil-sand, oil-chalk, oil-shales, ozokerite, bitumen, or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G53/00—Conveying materials in bulk through troughs, pipes or tubes by floating the materials or by flow of gas, liquid or foam
    • B65G53/30—Conveying materials in bulk through pipes or tubes by liquid pressure

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Geology (AREA)
  • Oil, Petroleum & Natural Gas (AREA)
  • Production Of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixture For Refining Petroleum (AREA)

Abstract

As-mined, naturally water-wet oil sand is mixed at the mine site with hot water, air and NaOH to produce a slurry. The slurry is pumped through a pipeline at least about 2.5 kilometres in length and is fed directly to a conventional gravity separation vessel. In the course of being pumped through the pipeline, sufficient coalescence and aeration of bitumen occurs so that, when subsequently retained in the vessel under quiescent conditions, a desirable amount of the bitumen floats, forms froth, and is recovered.
CA 2029795 1989-11-10 1989-11-10 Pipeline conditioning process for mined oil-sand Expired - Lifetime CA2029795C (en)

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Cited By (23)

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US6007708A (en) * 1997-10-02 1999-12-28 Alberta Energy Company Ltd. Cold dense slurrying process for extracting bitumen from oil sand
US7569137B2 (en) 2004-01-08 2009-08-04 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and apparatus for treating tailings
US7651042B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2010-01-26 Suncor Energy Inc. Method and apparatus for creating a slurry
US7677397B2 (en) 2004-07-30 2010-03-16 Suncor Energy Inc. Sizing roller screen ore processing apparatus
US7695612B2 (en) 2006-05-25 2010-04-13 Titanium Corporation Inc. Process for recovering heavy minerals from oil sand tailings
US8016216B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2011-09-13 Suncor Energy Inc. Mobile oil sands mining system
US8062511B2 (en) 2008-06-27 2011-11-22 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Primary froth recycle
EP2497815A1 (en) 2011-03-09 2012-09-12 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Method for improving oil sands hot water extraction process
US9207019B2 (en) 2011-04-15 2015-12-08 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Heat recovery for bitumen froth treatment plant integration with sealed closed-loop cooling circuit
US9546323B2 (en) 2011-01-27 2017-01-17 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for integration of paraffinic froth treatment hub and a bitumen ore mining and extraction facility
US9587176B2 (en) 2011-02-25 2017-03-07 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for treating high paraffin diluted bitumen
US9676684B2 (en) 2011-03-01 2017-06-13 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and unit for solvent recovery from solvent diluted tailings derived from bitumen froth treatment
US9701908B2 (en) 2015-07-23 2017-07-11 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Bitumen droplets coalescence
US9791170B2 (en) 2011-03-22 2017-10-17 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for direct steam injection heating of oil sands slurry streams such as bitumen froth
US9796930B2 (en) 2015-09-21 2017-10-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Bitumen production from single or multiple oil sand mines
US10041005B2 (en) 2011-03-04 2018-08-07 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and system for solvent addition to bitumen froth
US10053632B2 (en) 2015-07-22 2018-08-21 Syncrude Canada, Ltd. Use of surfactants in water-based bitumen extraction processes
US10226717B2 (en) 2011-04-28 2019-03-12 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Method of recovering solvent from tailings by flashing under choked flow conditions
US10781375B2 (en) 2017-09-11 2020-09-22 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Froth washing prior to naphtha dilution
US10907103B2 (en) 2018-04-09 2021-02-02 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Bitumen extraction using reduced shear conditions
US11098254B2 (en) 2019-07-17 2021-08-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Diluted bitumen product water reduction
US11098253B1 (en) 2020-04-16 2021-08-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Rotary screening of a conditioned oil sand slurry, and an improved rotary screening apparatus
US11261383B2 (en) 2011-05-18 2022-03-01 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Enhanced temperature control of bitumen froth treatment process

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CA2400258C (en) 2002-09-19 2005-01-11 Suncor Energy Inc. Bituminous froth inclined plate separator and hydrocarbon cyclone treatment process
US7736501B2 (en) 2002-09-19 2010-06-15 Suncor Energy Inc. System and process for concentrating hydrocarbons in a bitumen feed
CA2455011C (en) 2004-01-09 2011-04-05 Suncor Energy Inc. Bituminous froth inline steam injection processing
US8393561B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2013-03-12 Suncor Energy Inc. Method and apparatus for creating a slurry
CA2640514A1 (en) 2008-09-18 2010-03-18 Kyle Alan Bruggencate Method and apparatus for processing an ore feed
CA2689021C (en) 2009-12-23 2015-03-03 Thomas Charles Hann Apparatus and method for regulating flow through a pumpbox

Cited By (26)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6007708A (en) * 1997-10-02 1999-12-28 Alberta Energy Company Ltd. Cold dense slurrying process for extracting bitumen from oil sand
US7569137B2 (en) 2004-01-08 2009-08-04 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and apparatus for treating tailings
US7677397B2 (en) 2004-07-30 2010-03-16 Suncor Energy Inc. Sizing roller screen ore processing apparatus
US7651042B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2010-01-26 Suncor Energy Inc. Method and apparatus for creating a slurry
US8016216B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2011-09-13 Suncor Energy Inc. Mobile oil sands mining system
US8317116B2 (en) 2005-11-09 2012-11-27 Suncor Energy Inc. Method and apparatus for processing a sized ore feed
US7695612B2 (en) 2006-05-25 2010-04-13 Titanium Corporation Inc. Process for recovering heavy minerals from oil sand tailings
US8062511B2 (en) 2008-06-27 2011-11-22 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Primary froth recycle
US9546323B2 (en) 2011-01-27 2017-01-17 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for integration of paraffinic froth treatment hub and a bitumen ore mining and extraction facility
US10125325B2 (en) 2011-02-25 2018-11-13 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for treating high paraffin diluted bitumen
US9587176B2 (en) 2011-02-25 2017-03-07 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for treating high paraffin diluted bitumen
US9676684B2 (en) 2011-03-01 2017-06-13 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and unit for solvent recovery from solvent diluted tailings derived from bitumen froth treatment
US10041005B2 (en) 2011-03-04 2018-08-07 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and system for solvent addition to bitumen froth
US10988695B2 (en) 2011-03-04 2021-04-27 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process and system for solvent addition to bitumen froth
EP2497815A1 (en) 2011-03-09 2012-09-12 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Method for improving oil sands hot water extraction process
US9791170B2 (en) 2011-03-22 2017-10-17 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Process for direct steam injection heating of oil sands slurry streams such as bitumen froth
US9207019B2 (en) 2011-04-15 2015-12-08 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Heat recovery for bitumen froth treatment plant integration with sealed closed-loop cooling circuit
US10226717B2 (en) 2011-04-28 2019-03-12 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Method of recovering solvent from tailings by flashing under choked flow conditions
US11261383B2 (en) 2011-05-18 2022-03-01 Fort Hills Energy L.P. Enhanced temperature control of bitumen froth treatment process
US10053632B2 (en) 2015-07-22 2018-08-21 Syncrude Canada, Ltd. Use of surfactants in water-based bitumen extraction processes
US9701908B2 (en) 2015-07-23 2017-07-11 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Bitumen droplets coalescence
US9796930B2 (en) 2015-09-21 2017-10-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Bitumen production from single or multiple oil sand mines
US10781375B2 (en) 2017-09-11 2020-09-22 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Froth washing prior to naphtha dilution
US10907103B2 (en) 2018-04-09 2021-02-02 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Bitumen extraction using reduced shear conditions
US11098254B2 (en) 2019-07-17 2021-08-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. In Trust For The Owners Of The Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now And In The Future Diluted bitumen product water reduction
US11098253B1 (en) 2020-04-16 2021-08-24 Syncrude Canada Ltd. Rotary screening of a conditioned oil sand slurry, and an improved rotary screening apparatus

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