EADIEMAC Process Plant
Modular Skid Mounted Unit

Our process team initiated a research project at the Alberta Research Council, now Alberta Innovates, with the objective of developing a way to reduce the requirement for diluent at heavy oil/bitumen well sites.
A 1.5 bbl/day pilot plant was designed, built and tested at the Alberta Research Council's facilities in Nisku and Devon to establish the parameters for a field partial upgrader utilizing a visbreaking process.
Patent: See original (US#5,110,447 & CAN#1313639)
Patent development for improvements to the original process.
In a related project, a 200bbl/day used lube oil processing facility, a #2 diesel was output and tested in trucks.
Current activites involve the construction and testing of a 2000 bbl/day demonstration plant.
 This will lead to 10,000 bbl/day modular commercial units.

Background
Armed with the basic research, engineering designs evolved over several years to fine tune a practical and economical plant.
These designs were then put into a complete set of drawings suitable for fabrication.
A local Alberta fabricator was able to provide a cost to fabricate the plant within the skid limits.
With this information we were able to establish that it was economical to build and operate a field demonstration unit of 2000 bbls/day.
The design is scalable to suit modular plants of 10,000 bbls/day or more at site or near site production locations.
Meanwhile, our development activities continue with advanced patents to enhance the basic system by separating a portion of the resid on site, as feedstock for higher value uses.
The EADIEMAC process is one of a few advanced modular field partial upgrading systems, 100% Canadian owned and developed. It is available to Canada in the event industry decides to incorporate partial upgrading, on site, in a wellhead to tidewater system to enhance pipeline efficiency or governments decide it is of strategic value in Canada's energy future.

Heavy Oil/Bitumen Partial Upgrading