@article {51383,
	title = {Adding value to Alberta{\textquoteright}s oil sands},
	volume = {45},
	year = {2006},
	month = {08/2006},
	pages = {5 pages },
	publisher = {The Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology },
	abstract = {A rapidly expanding oil sands industry and a dwindling supply of  feedstock  for  Alberta{\textquoteright}s  ethane-based  petrochemical  industry  have  stimulated  interest  in  evaluating  bitumen  for  producing  a  broad  slate  of  refined  products,  including  petrochemicals.  Two  industry/government studies evaluated different process schemes for integrating oil sands, refining, and petrochemical operations and convert heavy gas oils into both refined products and petro-chemicals. Since market demand for fuels and refined products far  exceeds  that  for  petrochemicals,  the  performance  character-istics of the heavy oil conversion processes are important to op-timize the volume ratios of the products to meet market volume demands. The paper reviews different heavy oil processing tech-nologies focusing on olefin to fuel product ratios and flexibility to  change  these  ratios.  The  review  includes  conventional  non-catalytic thermal (steam) cracking, as well as catalytic processes. These technologies are at different stages of commercial devel-opment  for  production  of  fuels  and  olefins,  and  must  be  eval-uated  and  adapted  to  meet  Alberta{\textquoteright}s  aromatic  bitumen-derived  heavy  gas  oils.  Work  is  underway  in  an  industry/government  study towards developing an integrated process for the combined production of refined fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. In ad-dition, two workshops were held in February 2005 to address the business and regulatory gaps that needed to be addressed before such a process can be commercialized; the results from the work-shops will also be discussed in the paper.},
	keywords = {Alberta Innovates, AOSTRA, ARC, economics, planning},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237261846},
	author = {Laureshen, C. J. and Clark, P. D. and du Plessis, M. P.}
}
