Process for integration of paraffinic froth treatment hub and a bitumen ore mining and extraction facility
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United States(US) Patent
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국제특허분류(IPC7판)
C10G-001/04
B03B-009/02
C08L-095/00
B03D-001/24
출원번호
US-0982066
(2012-01-25)
등록번호
US-9546323
(2017-01-17)
국제출원번호
PCT/CA2012/000075
(2012-01-25)
§371/§102 date
20130726
(20130726)
국제공개번호
WO2012/100336
(2012-08-02)
발명자
/ 주소
Van Der Merwe, Shawn
Hann, Tom
출원인 / 주소
FORT HILLS ENERGY L.P.
대리인 / 주소
Baker & Hostetler LLP
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A process for regionalization of mining bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen comprises operating multiple separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities or in situ thermal recovery facilities, to produce separate bitumen froth streams; operat
A process for regionalization of mining bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen comprises operating multiple separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities or in situ thermal recovery facilities, to produce separate bitumen froth streams; operating a regional paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub for receiving a portion of each of the separate bitumen froth streams and treating the bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen; optionally providing a portion of the dry bitumen stream to the bitumen upgrading facility and another portion of the dry bitumen stream to a bitumen market pipeline or remote upgrading facility; and optionally comprising regionalization of water distribution where by-product waters are recovered from the PFT hub and the upgrading facilities and distributed to the mining and extraction facilities for use as extraction processing water to produce the bitumen froth streams.
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1. A process for regionalization of mining of bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen, comprising: operating a plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities to produce separate bitumen froth streams;supplying at least a portion of
1. A process for regionalization of mining of bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen, comprising: operating a plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities to produce separate bitumen froth streams;supplying at least a portion of each of the separate bitumen froth streams to a common paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub the bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen. 2. The process of claim 1, wherein the plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities comprises at least one mobile mining and extraction facility. 3. The process of claim 1, further comprising: managing the relative flowrates of the bitumen froth streams to provide a generally constant bitumen froth supply to the PFT hub. 4. The process of claim 1, further comprising: operating a plurality of separate upgrading operations; andproviding portions of the dry bitumen to the separate upgrading operations. 5. The process of claim 4, wherein at least one of the upgrading operations produces hot process water and wherein the process comprises recycling at least a portion of the hot process water as recycled water to at least one of the plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities. 6. The process of claim 1, further comprising: providing a first portion of the dry bitumen to an upgrading operation; andproviding a second portion of the dry bitumen to a bitumen market pipeline. 7. The process of claim 6, further comprising: producing a partially upgraded bitumen from the upgrading operation; andadding a portion of the partially upgraded bitumen to the dry bitumen as diluent to facilitate pipelining of the dry bitumen in the bitumen market pipeline. 8. The process of claim 6, wherein the upgrading operation or the PFT hub or a combination thereof generates by-product water and the by-product water is recycled for use in at least one of the mining and extraction operations. 9. The process of claim 1, further comprising: providing a safety hub with volatile hydrocarbon emergency capabilities associated with the PFT hub. 10. The process of claim 1, further wherein the separate bitumen froth streams from the plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities have different contents of salt and water and the PFT hub removes the salt and water therefrom to produce the dry bitumen. 11. The process of claim 1, further comprising: providing tank storage for receiving and storing the bitumen froth streams prior to introduction into the PFT hub. 12. The process of claim 1, further comprising: operating at least one in situ bitumen recovery operation to produce an in situ bitumen froth stream; andproviding the in situ bitumen froth stream to the PFT hub for conversion to part of the dry bitumen. 13. The process of claim 1, further comprising: providing pipeline infrastructure for transporting the separate bitumen froth streams to the PFT hub, wherein the pipeline infrastructure comprises:a first pipeline section for receiving one of the separate bitumen froth streams;a second pipeline section for receiving an other one of the separate bitumen froth streams; anda pipeline in fluid communication with the first pipeline section and the second pipeline section for receiving the one and the other of the separate bitumen froth streams and transporting the same to the PFT hub. 14. The process of claim 1, further comprising: locating the PFT hub to minimize transportation heat loss from the separate bitumen froth streams;locating the PFT hub to provide sufficient transportation mixing of the separate bitumen froth streams to facilitate paraffinic froth treatment thereof; orlocating the PFT hub to minimize transportation pumping energy requirements for transporting the separate bitumen froth streams. 15. The process of claim 1, further comprising: locating the PFT hub in closer proximity to larger confirmed bitumen reserves than to smaller developed bitumen reserves, to allow construction and operation of additional bitumen recovery operations of the larger confirmed bitumen reserves to produce additional bitumen froth streams for transportation to and treatment in the PFT hub. 16. The process of claim 1, wherein the PFT hub produces a heated by-product hot water stream and the process comprises recycling at least a portion of the by-product hot water stream to at least one of the plurality of separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities. 17. The process of claim 1, wherein the PFT hub comprises at least two parallel processing trains. 18. The process of claim 17, wherein the at least two parallel processing trains are independently operable with respect to each other. 19. The process of claim 17, wherein each of the processing trains comprises: a froth separation apparatus for separating the bitumen froth into diluted bitumen and solvent diluted tailings;a tailings solvent recovery unit for separating the solvent diluted tailings into a recovered solvent component and a solvent recovered tailings component; anda solvent recovery unit for separating the diluted bitumen into the dry bitumen, recovered solvent and recovered water. 20. The process of claim 17, further comprising: blending the separate bitumen froth streams to produce a blended bitumen froth; andsupplying the a portion of the blended bitumen froth to each of the processing trains. 21. The process of claim 1, further comprising: combining the separate bitumen froth streams to produce a combined bitumen froth;storing the combined bitumen froth in a tank storage facility. 22. The process of claim 21, further comprising: recirculating the combined bitumen froth in the tank storage facility to blend the combined bitumen froth. 23. The process of claim 1, wherein the PFT hub comprises treatment units for recovering additional substances from the bitumen froth. 24. The process of claim 23, wherein the treatment units are configured to recover asphaltenes from the solvent diluted tailings for reuse as fuel, to recover mineral compounds, or to recover compounds. 25. A process for integration of an oil sands ore mining and extraction facility, a paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub and a bitumen upgrading facility, comprising: operating the oil sands ore mining and extraction facility to produce a bitumen froth stream;supplying the bitumen froth stream to the PFT hub to produce a dry bitumen stream; andproviding a first portion of the dry bitumen stream to the bitumen upgrading facility and a second portion of the dry bitumen stream to a bitumen market pipeline. 26. A process for integration of an oil sands ore mining and extraction facility, a paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub and bitumen upgrading facilities, comprising: operating the oil sands ore mining and extraction facility to produce a bitumen froth stream;supplying the bitumen froth stream to the PFT hub to produce a dry bitumen stream; andproviding a first portion of the dry bitumen stream to a first bitumen upgrading facility and a second portion of the dry bitumen stream to a second bitumen upgrading facility,wherein the first and second bitumen upgrading facilities are located at different distances from the PFT. 27. A process for regionalization of water distribution in an oil sands processing operations comprising mining of bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen, comprising: operating an oil sands ore mining and extraction facility to produce a bitumen froth stream and tailings water;operating a paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub for receiving the bitumen froth stream to treat the bitumen froth stream to produce the dry bitumen and receiving a portion of the tailings water for cooling and heat recovery to produce heated PFT process water;operating an upgrading facility for receiving and upgrading at least a portion of the dry bitumen from the PFT hub, the upgrading facility producing heated upgrading process water;distributing a portion of the heated PFT process water, the heated upgrading process water, or a combination thereof, to the oil sands ore mining and extraction facility for use as extraction processing water to produce the bitumen froth stream. 28. The process of claim 27, wherein the upgrading facility is a first bitumen upgrading facility and wherein a second portion of the dry bitumen stream is supplied to a second bitumen upgrading facility, the second bitumen upgrading facility being located farther from the PFT hub than the first bitumen upgrading facility. 29. The process of claim 28, further comprising: producing a partially upgraded bitumen from the first upgrading operation; andadding a portion of the partially upgraded bitumen to the dry bitumen as diluent to facilitate pipelining to the second bitumen upgrading facility. 30. The process of claim 27, further comprising: operating a plurality of the oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities to produce a plurality of the bitumen froth streams;operating the paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub for receiving at least a portion of each of the plurality of the bitumen froth streams and treating the bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen. 31. The process of claim 27, further comprising providing the heated PFT process water, the heated upgrading process water, or the combination thereof, used in the oil sands ore mining and extraction facility, such that caustic is unnecessary for extraction in a Clark Hot Water Process. 32. The process of claim 27, further comprising: operating at least one in situ bitumen recovery operation to produce an in situ bitumen froth stream;providing the in situ bitumen froth stream to the PFT hub for conversion to part of the dry bitumen. 33. A process for regionalization of recovering bitumen from bitumen-containing oil sands formations for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen, comprising: operating an in situ thermal bitumen recovery facility to produce an in situ bitumen froth stream;operating an oil sands ore mining and extraction facility to produce an extracted bitumen froth stream; andsupplying at least a portion of each of the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream to a common paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub and treating the in situ and extracted bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen. 34. The process of claim 33, wherein the in situ thermal recovery facility is selected from SAGD, SAGP, ES-SAGD, VAPEX, ET-DSP, and ISC facilities. 35. The process of claim 33, further comprising: managing the relative flowrates of the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream to provide a generally constant bitumen froth supply to the PFT hub. 36. The process of claim 33, further comprising: operating a plurality of separate upgrading operations; andproviding portions of the dry bitumen to the separate upgrading operations. 37. The process of claim 33, further comprising: providing a first portion of the dry bitumen to an upgrading operation; andproviding a second portion of the dry bitumen to a bitumen market pipeline. 38. The process of claim 37, further comprising: producing a partially upgraded bitumen from the upgrading operation; andadding a portion of the partially upgraded bitumen to the dry bitumen as diluent to facilitate pipelining of the dry bitumen in the bitumen market pipeline. 39. The process of claim 33, further comprising: providing a safety hub with volatile hydrocarbon emergency capabilities associated with the PFT hub. 40. The process of claim 33, further wherein the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream have different contents of salt and water and the PFT hub removes the salt and water from therefrom to produce the dry bitumen. 41. The process of claim 33, further comprising: providing tank storage for receiving and storing the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream prior to introduction into the PFT hub. 42. The process of claim 33, further comprising: providing pipeline infrastructure for transporting the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream to the PFT hub, wherein the pipeline infrastructure comprises:a first pipeline section for receiving the in situ bitumen froth stream;a second pipeline section for receiving the extracted bitumen froth stream;a third pipeline in fluid communication with the first pipeline section and the second pipeline section for receiving both of the bitumen froth streams and transporting the same to the regional PFT hub. 43. The process of claim 33, further comprising: locating the PFT hub to minimize transportation heat loss from the in situ bitumen froth stream. 44. The process of claim 33, further comprising: locating the PFT hub closer to larger confirmed bitumen reserves than to smaller developed bitumen reserves, to allow construction and operation of additional bitumen recovery operations of the larger confirmed bitumen reserves to produce additional bitumen froth streams for transportation to and treatment in the PFT hub. 45. The process of claim 44, wherein the larger confirmed bitumen reserves comprise in situ recoverable bitumen reserves. 46. The process of claim 33, wherein the PFT hub comprises at least two parallel processing trains. 47. The process of claim 46, wherein the at least two parallel processing trains are independently operable with respect to each other. 48. The process of claim 47, wherein each of the processing trains comprising: a froth separation apparatus for separating the bitumen froth into diluted bitumen and solvent diluted tailings;a tailings solvent recovery unit for separating the solvent diluted tailings into a recovered solvent component and a solvent recovered tailings component; anda solvent recovery unit for separating the diluted bitumen into the dry bitumen, recovered solvent and recovered water. 49. The process of claim 46, further comprising: blending the in situ bitumen froth stream and the extracted bitumen froth stream to produce a blended bitumen froth; andsupplying the a portion of the blended bitumen froth to each of the processing trains.
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