A low-angle view of a large, white industrial pipeline stretching across a dry, brush-filled desert landscape.

Cooling bitumen for a pipeline

Cooling bitumen for a pipeline

  • The Challenge

    Provide cooling for the complex process of diluting bitumen

  • The Solution

    Use our process design package to solve the problem

  • The Impact

    Temperatures reduced and tanks brought back to full capacity

Client:Dilbit Cooling

Location:USA and Canada

Sectors:Oil and gas

The Challenge

Help prevent a reduction in productivity

A large sustainable energy company in Fort McMurray, Alberta, was facing a potential temperature management crisis at its tank farm that blended and diluted bitumen. Diluted bitumen has a lower viscosity, which means it can be transported in pipelines. This helps save on transport costs but it can be a hazardous process. If the mixture is not cooled down enough there is a danger that the vapours can catch alight, which is not only a significant health and safety hazard, it also creates a real possibility of the facility shutting down. Without effective and reliable cooling our customer faced a reduction in output and loss of productivity.

6 MWTotal power provided
4,000 tonnesCooling capacity supplied
43 Temperature decrease after cooling
192,000 bbdAmount of diluted bitumen cooled

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“We have the expert skills to design and install a solution in a matter of weeks without the need for capital expenditure.”

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