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Engineer-Poet on January 25, 2006 - 12:36pm
Not when it comes out. The fire-flooding process partially cracks the bitumen. The coke stays behind to burn when the flame front reaches it; the other fractions are lighter than bitumen.
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Donal on January 25, 2006 - 1:24pm
In that case, they should state that the process starts with bitumen-rich soil, partially consumes the bitumen and ends with synthetic oil. There is clearly an implication that the oil is already there.
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