ENI EST TECHNOLOGY FOR HEAVY OIL AND BITUMEN
Worldwide the heavy oil and bitumen reserves are huge and could represent a strategic development opportunity in order to satisfy the incremental market demands. In this scenario is competitive for the Oil Companies, from technical and economical point of view, to have new technologies to treat the heavy feedstock and to produce distillates good for the markets and environmental friendly. To meet the growing market demand for cleaner distillate , to face the declining demand for fuel oil and pet coke, to reduce the sulphur content in the final products, the upstream and downstream industries are going toward new process and plants suitable to upgrade the heavier feedstock, as extra heavy and heavy oil and oil sands bitumen. The EST technology, upgrader system for heavy feedstock and non conventional oils, developed by ENI, may represent the solution for the profitable exploitation of the huge reserves of heavy oil and sand bitumen. In order to validate the EST process scheme, a CDP (Commercial Demonstration Plant) is under testing in Taranto, existing ENI refinery. The plant is designed for 1.200 BBLS/D and presently the conversion performance matches the laboratory and pilot test process results. The test will continue till December 2006. A Basic Design package has been prepared for industrial application (ENI refinery) with a capacity of 50.000 BBLS/D. The comparison of EST initiative with commonly applied technologies for heavy oil and bitumen treatment (i.e. Ebullated Bed and Delayed Coking) shows an incremental of Capex versus several technological benefits as high conversion and flexibility, high upgrading and quality of products more close to the market request. On the base of upgraded products value, the economic margin of EST technology is considerably high.
STEFANO FOMIATTI
ENI - E&P DIVISION, ITALY
国际会议
首届世界重油大会(The Technical Sessions of the First World Heavy Oil Conference)
北京
英文
1026-1034
2006-11-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）