The Genoil GHU® Oil Field Upgrading Plant

The GHU® Upgrading Plant has conversion rates of 70% to over 90% based on the various types of feedstocks being produced: high sulphur, acidic, crude, vacuum or atmospheric residue, or bitumen. Controlling the amount of total residue being produced is done if the residue stream is to be gasified producing syntheses gas, where hydrogen is recovered and recycled to meet hydrogen consumption requirements for the GHU®. The remaining syntheses gas can be sent to fuel gas or used to produce power and steam generation through the OPTIONAL IGCC scheme.

Included in our on-going process development efforts with fixed bed reactors, we are also focusing on “on-stream” methods of catalyst replacement in the guard beds.

Some of the design runs on different feed stocks are listed below with their conversion rates:

• Flexible Hydroconversion Plant: desulfurization, conversion hydrogenation and carbon reduction all in one stage
• Constructed in 20-50,000 bpd trains
• New gas oil blending system which desulfurizes 95+% at up to 75% lower operating costs than competition
• No need for external source of hydrogen or natural gas with the OPTIONAL integrated IGCC Unit
• Applicable to sour, acidic, crude and refinery feed stocks
• Proprietary devices to mix the hydrogen and the hydrocarbon stream
• Super-saturation of the liquid hydrocarbons with hydrogen
• High conversion of fractions of the feed at moderate operating conditions
• Engineering EPC Alliance with Beijing Petrochemical division of Yanchang Petroleum Group (Press Release)
• BPEC to issue full EPC warranty for project and Genoil GHU Plant to Clients
• Production of stable products at high conversion levels
• Premium sweet synthetic crude product: no penalty for density or sulphur
• Removes the need for expensive blending diluents
• Flexibility of operation: “dial” the conversion level and the product properties by changing the operating temperature
• Upgrader is economical at a 10,000 bpd capacity
• Operating costs are lower than for existing plants –  $ 4.00 per barrel
• Extremely low capital cost $ 7-10,000.00 per barrel
• Received $5 billion LOI from major Asian policy bank in April 2016 for project in the Middle East
• Upgrades crude oil at the field
• No coke production
• Alliance with the Shaw Group’s Stone & Webster’s 32,000 engineers who will assist Genoil as EPC contractor to build, and stand behind th GHU (Shaw Press Release)

The table below shows the Capital Expenditures and Unit Costs at graduated processing capacities for Genoil GHU upgrading facility versus a traditional delayed coking upgrading facility.

GHU®

The Genoil Hydroconversion Plant is an catalytic hydroconversion plant that economically upgrades and significantly increases the yields from high sulphur, acidic, crude, bitumen, and refinery residues. This innovative technology was designed to lower the capital investment and operating costs necessary for hydroprocessing today’s growing sour crude inventories and refinery bottoms with high conversion rates, or desulphurize fuel oil fractions to meet new regulatory requirements. By employing proprietary mixing devices between hydrocarbons and hydrogen, among other innovations, the GHU® achieves higher conversion rates at lower temperature and pressures than traditional technologies like delayed coking and conventional hydrotreating / hydrocracking processes. Environmental Benefits – E Brochure GHU Technical Presentation