Patent ID: 7959796

Claim:
A method of producing a crude product, comprising: contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes the crude product, wherein the crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa, the crude feed having a total acid number (TAN) of at least 0.1, the crude feed having a residue content of at least 0.1 grams of residue per gram of crude feed, and at least one of the catalysts comprising one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table, one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table, or mixtures thereof; and controlling contacting conditions such that the crude product has a TAN of at most 10% of the TAN of the crude feed, the crude product has a residue content of about 70% to about 130% of the residue content of the crude feed, and wherein TAN is as determined by ASTM Method D664, and residue content is as determined by ASTM Method D5307.