[Denny]

Given the long state of a very low natural gas price relative to crude oil, is there any technology which can form conventional crude, or other refined products out of heavy crude refined in conjunction wiht natural gas?

You'd think this would be pursued as an economic winner, right now as on an energy content basis, natural gas is cheap relative to crude oil, and likewise, heavy crude is lower cost per energy content than light crude.

[cipi604]

The natural gas is in decline in Canada.

[Starvid]

Natural gas consumption is used for lots of wasteful things, like power generation and space heating, where there are plenty of good substitutes.

Cut that demand and you have plenty of gas for the petrochemical industries.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', 'N')atural gas consumption is used for lots of wasteful things, like power generation and space heating, where there are plenty of good substitutes.

[Kingcoal]

Heavy sour crude - carbon - sulfur - heavy metals = light sweet crude. Making light sweet out of heavy sour is a no brainer. It is also a no brainer that it is expensive and creates waste products which must be disposed of.

It sucks that we've depleted light sweet, doesn't it?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'G')iven the long state of a very low natural gas price relative to crude oil, is there any technology which can form conventional crude, or other refined products out of heavy crude refined in conjunction wiht natural gas?

You'd think this would be pursued as an economic winner, right now as on an energy content basis, natural gas is cheap relative to crude oil, and likewise, heavy crude is lower cost per energy content than light crude.

[Kingcoal]

Actually it's very simple:

Light sweet crude: Good EROEI.
Heavy sour crude: Bad EROEI.

[Blaze5]

Try looking at this Company hxxp://www.globalresourcecorp.com/ (Change the XX to tt) I haven't read the policy for this Boards live links.

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Global Resource Corporation is a United States-based company. In December 2006, the Company acquired Equipment Service Parts, Inc., a company specializing in the tooling and manufacturing business. In September 2006, it acquired Carbon Recovery Corporation (CRC). CRC is a development-stage company that has a license with Mobilestream Oil, Inc., for a family of technologies, which not only allow for the complete recycling of an automobile tire (recovering all of the component parts for resale) but also permit the economic recovery of oil from sources, such as shale, tar sands, oil resid and existing oil wells. With the acquisition of the assets and the development stage business from CRC, the Company is engaged in the construction of plants to exploit certain technology for decomposing petroleum-based materials by subjecting them to variable frequency microwave radiation at specifically selected frequencies for a time sufficient to at least partially decompose the materials.

Heavy Oil plus Tires, Shale ect

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', 'P')lease name your good substitutes. I assume you don't count coal as a good substitute.