Ft. McMurray

Ft. McMurray, AK, USA, Oil Sand Plant, Fire Lube oil fire at compressor. 

Currently, delayed coking and fluid coking are the processes of choice for conversion of Athabasca bitumen to liquid products. Both processes are termed the primary conversion processes for the tar sand plants in Ft. McMurray, Canada. The unstable liquid product streams are hydrotreated before recombining to the synthetic crude oil. 

Suncor Coker at Ft. McMurray and the Citgo Coker in Lake Charles) for the coke drums to overpressure without the relief valves opening. In one instance, the drum pressure reached over 100 psig, even though the relief valve was set at 60 psig. 

In Canada, the town of McMurray, about 240 miles north-north-east of Edmonton, Alberta lies at the eastern margin of the largest accumulation in the world There are, in effect, three major accumulations within the Lower Cretaceous deposits. The McMurray-Wabasca reservoirs are found toward the base of the formation and the deposit dips at between 5 ft and 25 ft per mile (1.5 m and 8 m per mile) to the south-west. The Bluesky-Gething sands overlie several unconformities between the Mississippian and Jurassic deposits. 

B. Wu, T. Abbott, D. Fishman, W. McMurray, G. Mor, K. Stone, D. Ward, K. WiUiams, and Ft. Zhao, Comparison of statistical methods for classification of ovarian cancer using mass spectrometry data. Bioinformatics 19(13) 1636-1643 (2003). 

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