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Higher volumes of heavy conventional and
bitumen-based crudes from western Canada
are becoming available to more refineries as
production and transportation infrastructure
is developed. However, western Canadian
opportunity crudes include a broad range
of feedstocks that exhibit fundamentally
different characteristics causing a wide variety
of processing challenges. Many refiners are
just becoming acquainted with the impact
these crudes pose in terms of desalting,
corrosion, fouling, and wastewater operations. canadian-crudes-slsh.pdf