21 Sep 2017 CALGARY — A new technology that transforms heavy crude oil into pill-sized pellets could cure the oilsands industry's transportation The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, 27 Dec 2018 CN Rail planning pilot plant to create oilsands bitumen pucks that are easy to heavy, sticky oil with polymer plastic, creating a pellet-shaped product called to convert up to 50,000 barrels per day of heavy crude into pucks. 28 Dec 2018 The Canapux float in water and oil doesn't leak out. looks for ways to move oil sands crude with pipeline projects stalled or cancelled. An earlier technology tested at the University of Calgary made pellets out of bitumen
It sounds like CN Rail is betting on the new technology to be a safe alternative to shipping oil in crude liquid form. According to the Globe and Mail newspaper, CN, Canada’s largest railway has filed a patent application for a new technology that turns bitumen—the heavy crude produced at the oil sands—into a mostly solid dry good, by mixing and wrapping it with polymer. Oilsands crude pellets touted as cure for industry's bitumen transport ills CALGARY -- A University of Calgary professor says new technology that transforms heavy crude from the oilsands into small Oilsands crude pellets touted as cure for industry’s bitumen transport ills. CALGARY — A University of Calgary professor says new technology that transforms heavy crude from the oilsands into small pellets is the pill that could cure the industry’s transportation headaches.
Canapux – A Practical Made-In-Alberta Solution To The Crude Transportation ( formerly, the Alberta Research Council), turning crude oil to solid pellets. oil sands, water treatment, pulp and paper and surface treatment of crude oils. A University of Calgary professor says new technology that transforms heavy crude from the oilsands into small pellets is the pill that could cure the industry's transportation headaches.
A University of Calgary professor says new technology that transforms heavy crude from the oilsands into small pellets is the pill that could cure the industry's transportation headaches. Oilsands crude pellets touted as cure for industry's bitumen transport ills CALGARY — A new technology that transforms heavy crude oil into pill-sized pellets could cure the oilsands industry’s
28 Dec 2018 A major railway has proposed turning the nation's controversial tar sands into Asia's next oil source by using plastic pellets the size of a bar of secure and protected way of transporting bitumen or heavy crude. CanaPux ™ pellet processing facilities operate in close proximity to extraction sites and / rail/cn-rail-lining-up-pilot-plant-partners-to-make-oilsands-bitumen-pucks.