Process for producing transportation fuels from oil sands-derived crude
AssigneeEpic Oil Extractors, LLC
InventorsRichard H. SCHLOSBERG, Richard D. JORDAN
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Abstract
Disclosed are processes for producing a transportation fuel from a high quality oil sands-derived crude oil. The oil sands-derived crude oil is provided as a feed source for a catalytic conversion reaction, which produces the product useful as the transportation fuel. The oil sands-derived crude oil has an ASTM D7169 5% distillation point of from 400° F. to 700° F. Transportation fuel is produced from the provided oil sands-derived crude oil by treating the oil sands-derived crude oil through at least one catalytic cracking process and mild hydrotreating process.
Claims7
A process for producing a naphtha stream from oil sands-derived crude oil, comprising:
- providing the oil sands-derived crude oil, wherein the oil sands-derived crude oil is a hydrocarbon solvent extracted crude oil having an ASTM D7169 5% distillation point of from 400° F. to 700° F., an asphaltenes content of not greater than 10 wt %, a Conradson Carbon Residue (CCR) of not greater than 15 wt % and sulfur content of not greater than 4 wt %, and
- catalytically cracking the oil sands-derived crude oil to produce catalytically cracked product streams, wherein the catalytically cracked product streams comprise the naphtha stream, and the naphtha stream is ≧45 wt % of the total amount of cracked product streams produced.
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