What is Syncrude Synthetic crude?

Syncrude Synthetic is a light sweet synthetic crude produced from the Syncrude Canada Project located north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Syncrude Project includes a mine and upgrader operations. It is a classic bottomless blend of hydrotreated naphtha, distillate, and gasoil fractions produced from a coker and hydrocracker based upgrader facility. In 1973, construction began on the Syncrude site and, after five years of construction, the first barrel was shipped on July 30, 1978.

Light Ends Summary

Property (vol%)Most Recent Sample6 Month Average1 Year Average5 Year Average
C3- 0.03 0.07 0.07 0.07
Butanes 2.05 2.09 2.22 2.01
Pentanes 2.26 2.23 2.49 2.46
Hexanes 3.89 3.55 3.85 3.78
Heptanes 3.91 3.48 3.68 3.50
Octanes 4.57 4.12 4.30 4.09
Nonanes 3.69 3.35 3.42 3.29
Decanes 1.89 1.77 1.81 1.66

BTEX

Property (vol%)Most Recent Sample6 Month Average1 Year Average5 Year Average
Benzene 0.20 0.18 0.19 0.18
Toluene 0.51 0.44 0.47 0.45
Ethyl Benzene 0.20 0.17 0.18 0.17
Xylenes 0.66 0.59 0.62 0.61

Distillation

TBP ASTM D2892 & D5236
HTSD ASTM D7169

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Most Recent Sample Comments:
SYN-992, Mar 1, 2013

Last 6 Samples

Sulphur was marginally high compared to historical data for the March sample of Syncrude Synthetic. Simulated distillation results are included.

Basic Analysis

PropertyMost Recent Sample6 Month Average1 Year Average5 Year Average
Density (kg/m3) 862.5 862.6 860.4 863.3
Gravity (oAPI) 32.4 32.4 32.8 32.3
Sulphur (wt%) 0.20 0.18 0.17 0.17
MCR (wt%) 0.10 ND ND ND
Nickel (mg/L) ND ND ND ND
Vanadium (mg/L) ND ND ND ND
Olefins (wt%) - - ND ND

*ND indicates a tested value below the instrument threshold.

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