Patent ID: 9328291
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: C01B,C10G

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