Talk:Froth treatment (Athabasca oil sands)
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Froth treatment typically separates bitumen from other components of the ore. Froth treatment does not upgrade the bitumen or *necessarily* create diluted bitument. For example, see http://oilsands.infomine.com/commodities/soir/oilsands/welcome.asp?i=oilsands2. The original Clark Hot Water Extraction method involves froth without diluent. Sometimes, diluent is added to help separate bitumen from the tailings, but this is different from "dilbit" that essentially a pipelined commodity. If naptha or toluene is used as a froth diluent, pipeline transport is not practical. See http://canmetenergy.nrcan.gc.ca/oil-sands/404. I recommend removing the recent change to the Dilbit article.--Rpclod (talk) 18:31, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Naphthenic acid[edit]
I have temporarily copied several sentences from the article Naphthenic acid to this article. This may be temporary as this 2001, 2002 content from journals, although highly-cited, may be outdated.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:18, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Western Canadian Select[edit]
I added content to this article using using content I had created in the Western Canadian Select article. Will be summarized and pared back.Oceanflynn (talk) 19:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)