The proprietary process in the USP™ unit cracks the heavy residue in the decontaminated crude oil into lighter products that are collected through a conventional product recovery system.

The USP™ is a high-temperature thermal cracking system using technologies adapted from the cement and calcining industries.

The USP™ unit cracks the heavy residue in bitumen into light oil products in an energy efficient manner. The products are a rich gas stream, synthetic diluent and a light sour synthetic crude oil.