Dilbit is bitumen diluted with hydrocarbons, a mixture that travels easily through pipelines. Uncertainty about its properties attracted the attention of the U.S. Congress, which asked the private ...

The project would see 525,000 barrels of the heavy oil diluted bitumen (dilbit) transported across British Columbia each day and loaded onto super tankers for shipment to international refineries.

Bitumen recovery is a critical process in the extraction of heavy oil from oil sands, and it often involves complex interactions between bitumen and various solvents. Recent research has focused ...

where the diluted bitumen will be upgraded into a synthetic crude oil. After upgrading, it will be transported to refineries in Canada and the US.