Patent ID: 9340732
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: C01B,C10G

Claim Text:
1. A process for upgrading crude oil or heavy oil or bitumen to formulate refined hydrocarbon products, wherein said process comprises: (a) providing a feedstock source of crude oil, heavy oil or bitumen; (b) treating said feedstock to form at least one distilled fraction and a non-distilled bottom fraction; (c) optionally treating said non-distilled bottom fraction to a hydrocarbon treatment operation to form a treated fraction and a treated bottom fraction; (d) processing said at least one distilled fraction and/or said treated fraction in a hydrocarbon cracking operation to form a processed stream; (e) feeding said non-distilled bottom fraction or said treated bottom fraction to a syngas generating operation for formulating a hydrogen lean syngas stream via a partial oxidation reaction and reacting said syngas in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to formulate synthesized hydrocarbons; (f) adding an external source of hydrogen to said hydrogen lean syngas to formulate said synthesized hydrocarbons; and (g) blending a portion of said synthesized hydrocarbons with a portion of said processed stream to form said fully refined hydrocarbon products comprising naphtha, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel or any combination thereof.