A tax loophole exempting tar sands pipeline operators from paying an eight-cent tax per barrel of oil they transport in the US is costing the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund millions of dollars every year. With expected increases in tar sands oil production over the next five years, this loophole may have deprived US citizens of $400-million dollars worth of critical oil-spill protection funds come 2017.
This is an incentive to maintain the tar sands oil process primitive and polluting.
According to a thirty-year-old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US - with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL - are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
The Tar Sands Crud is considered a "Dilbit Blend." It is a designer oil mixture that maintains it outside of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
"Dilbit Blends" means "Blends made from heavy crudes and/or bitumens and a diluent usually condensate, for the purpose of meeting pipeline viscosity and density specifications, where the density of the diluent included in the blend is less than 800 kg/m3." If the diluent density is greater than or equal to 800 kg/m3, the diluent is typically synthetic crude and accordingly the blend is called synbit.
There is a substantial sulfur content in oil out of any well on the planet. That is a fact. The sulfur component in oil requires protective clothing to prevent damage to the worker. Hazard suits.
Naphtha is a petroleum distillate to remove the sulfur from the refined product to go into gas tanks.
Sulfur causes ACID RAIN. It is the SOX in NOX AND SOX. Sulfur is adverse to life on Earth.
The highly corrosive nature of sulfur is why it is removed at refineries to produce gasoline, jet fuel, etc.
The process plants in Canada are adding naphtha to the tar sands crud in order to get it to flow like oil. The naphtha is corroding the pipelines. It is why they are breaking open.
In this article, the refining process uses a lot of energy to heat the crude in order to vaporize the corrosives. The corrosives are then condensed and removed as liquids.
...In a Preflash Column, (click here) butane and lighter fractions will go overhead. Liquids which distill overhead are most often sent to a Debutanizer and the gases are sent to the Saturate Gas Plant or plant fuel gas. Light naphtha may be drawn off the side of the Preflash Column, or taken overhead, depending on the refinery configuration. The light naphtha and naphtha from the atmospheric column overhead may be combined and sent to a Naphtha Splitter....
It is a Exxon article. Basically, what the tar sands process includes is mixing these corrosive distillates into the crud to allow it to flow through the pipeline from Canada to Texas. Once in Texas, the corrosives are removed.
The energy used to mix the corrosives into the tar sands crud in Canada is doubled when energy is used at the other end of the process in Texas to remove the very corrosives introduced at the beginning.
An older Journal (I love old books for all the right reasons.) by the name of "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry," has an article dating from 1925 about the corrosive effects of naphtha. This property has been know to the petroleum industry for a very long, long time.
"Corrosive Effects of Naphtha Solutions of Sulfur and Sulfur Compounds," (clickk here); Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (click here) Volume 17, Number 8 (click here), pages 798-802.
This is NOT outdated information. Chemicals today are the same as chemicals centuries ago. Water is water is water. Naphtha is naphtha is naphtha.
This journal is a publication of the American Chemical Society. The ACS (American Chemical Society) has been around forever. It is a FOUNDATION knowledge and the old journals of the ACS is among the most valuable on Earth.
I used to work for a chemical company, remember?
This is an incentive to maintain the tar sands oil process primitive and polluting.
According to a thirty-year-old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US - with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL - are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
The Tar Sands Crud is considered a "Dilbit Blend." It is a designer oil mixture that maintains it outside of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
"Dilbit Blends" means "Blends made from heavy crudes and/or bitumens and a diluent usually condensate, for the purpose of meeting pipeline viscosity and density specifications, where the density of the diluent included in the blend is less than 800 kg/m3." If the diluent density is greater than or equal to 800 kg/m3, the diluent is typically synthetic crude and accordingly the blend is called synbit.
Naphtha is used to dilute the tar to make it flow.
Naphtha is a sulfur based. It is a corrosive.
The Tar Sands Oil Crud is corroding the pipelines.
There is a substantial sulfur content in oil out of any well on the planet. That is a fact. The sulfur component in oil requires protective clothing to prevent damage to the worker. Hazard suits.
Naphtha is a petroleum distillate to remove the sulfur from the refined product to go into gas tanks.
Sulfur causes ACID RAIN. It is the SOX in NOX AND SOX. Sulfur is adverse to life on Earth.
The highly corrosive nature of sulfur is why it is removed at refineries to produce gasoline, jet fuel, etc.
The process plants in Canada are adding naphtha to the tar sands crud in order to get it to flow like oil. The naphtha is corroding the pipelines. It is why they are breaking open.
In this article, the refining process uses a lot of energy to heat the crude in order to vaporize the corrosives. The corrosives are then condensed and removed as liquids.
...In a Preflash Column, (click here) butane and lighter fractions will go overhead. Liquids which distill overhead are most often sent to a Debutanizer and the gases are sent to the Saturate Gas Plant or plant fuel gas. Light naphtha may be drawn off the side of the Preflash Column, or taken overhead, depending on the refinery configuration. The light naphtha and naphtha from the atmospheric column overhead may be combined and sent to a Naphtha Splitter....
It is a Exxon article. Basically, what the tar sands process includes is mixing these corrosive distillates into the crud to allow it to flow through the pipeline from Canada to Texas. Once in Texas, the corrosives are removed.
The energy used to mix the corrosives into the tar sands crud in Canada is doubled when energy is used at the other end of the process in Texas to remove the very corrosives introduced at the beginning.
An older Journal (I love old books for all the right reasons.) by the name of "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry," has an article dating from 1925 about the corrosive effects of naphtha. This property has been know to the petroleum industry for a very long, long time.
"Corrosive Effects of Naphtha Solutions of Sulfur and Sulfur Compounds," (clickk here); Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (click here) Volume 17, Number 8 (click here), pages 798-802.
This is NOT outdated information. Chemicals today are the same as chemicals centuries ago. Water is water is water. Naphtha is naphtha is naphtha.
This journal is a publication of the American Chemical Society. The ACS (American Chemical Society) has been around forever. It is a FOUNDATION knowledge and the old journals of the ACS is among the most valuable on Earth.
I used to work for a chemical company, remember?
