Patents Assigned to Shell Canada Energy and Chervon Canada Limited
  • Methods of transporting various bitumen extraction products and compositions thereof
    Patent number: 8920636
    Abstract: Methods for transporting bitumen extraction product include providing bitumen-laden aromatic solvent, providing bitumen-laden paraffinic solvent, and blending the two materials. The resulting mixture can be transported through existing pipeline infrastructure and can use existing separation processing equipment, and thereby avoids the need for separate infrastructure for each composition. Combining the two compositions can also avoid undesirable asphaltene precipitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Canada Energy and Chervon Canada Limited
    Inventors: Julian Kift, Mahendra Joshi