<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Laureshen, C. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Clark, P. D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">du Plessis, M. P.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adding value to Alberta's oil sands</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alberta Innovates</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AOSTRA</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ARC</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">economics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">planning</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/2006</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237261846</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology </style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">45</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5 pages </style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A rapidly expanding oil sands industry and a dwindling supply of  feedstock  for  Alberta’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’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.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></issue><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/102559013</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>