North America is starting to see a growing need for oil pipelines. The Keystone XL project, which will transport oil sands from Canada and the northern United States down to the Gulf Coast to refineries, is a $5.3 billion project that is expected to transport hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil each day. As […]

Importance of Coal in the Energy Sector: Coal is always considered as a vital fundamental source of the energy which plays an important role in national economy. Coal falls in the category of fossil fuel and it remains as one of the leading source of electricity in the world. With that in mind it remains […]

Important facts about Bitumen Bitumen, commonly referred to as tar or asphalt, is a blend of organic liquids which are black, sticky and very viscous. There are two main types of bitumen; crude or naturally occurring and refined bitumen. Naturally occurring bitumen is a tar-like type of petroleum which is sticky. It is also thick […]

A process heater is any equipment with the express purpose of heating chemical process streams. Any process where electrical energy transforms into usable heat qualifies as electric heating. As the name indicates, an electric process heater (EPH) is an electric heater that is in direct contact with a process. For example, a static process where an […]

Fuel oil has many applications, from energy generation to fuel transporting vehicles. Fuel oil is generally the major interested product from the petroleum refining.  Different products are extracted from crude oil by fractional distillation under various temperatures according to the hydrocarbons boiling point. The produced hydrocarbons from the distillation include: gasoline, kerosene, diesel, fuel oil […]