Patent ID: 7591941

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 has a MCR content of at least 0.001 grams per gram of crude feed, and at least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter in a range from about 100 Å to about 140 Å, with at least 60% of the total number of pores in the pore size distribution having a pore diameter within about 45 Å of the median pore diameter, wherein pore size distribution is as determined by ASTM Method D4282; and controlling contacting conditions such that the crude product has a MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed, wherein MCR content is as determined by ASTM Method D4530.