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Featured Blending Projects
The Obsidian project team provides clients with practical, field-proven blending solutions designed to maximize product value while maintaining strict sales specifications.
Our team has supported numerous butane and multi-stream blending implementations across Alberta and North Dakota, ranging from oil battery scale installations (~10,000 bbl/d) to terminal blending systems (~80,000 bbl/d). These systems are designed not only to meet product specifications, but to operate reliably under real field conditions where vapour pressure control, measurement accuracy, and product variability can significantly impact performance.
We provide full-cycle project support, from early concept development through commissioning and operational optimization. Our approach combines practical engineering design with hands-on field experience to ensure blending systems perform reliably during day-to-day operations.
Services include:
Concept development and feasibility studies for crude and NGL blending
Process design and blend ratio optimization
Turn-key engineered blending skid and product load/offload packages
Detailed engineering and facility integration
Commissioning and startup support
Operational troubleshooting and optimization (i.e. dual phase flow issues, measurement inaccuracies)
TRENTON TERMINAL BLENDING ADDITION
The Trenton Terminal in North Dakota underwent expansion to facilitate butane and heavy oil blending with crude oil.
The upgraded facility now boasts a maximum blended delivery rate of 60,000 barrels per day, with targeted blend ratios of 3% butane and 3% heavy oil.
Notable additions to the terminal infrastructure include heavy oil storage tanks, butane storage bullets, a blend skid, heavy and butane offload stations, as well as metering and pumping infrastructure.
MARTEN HILLS SALES BLENDING SKID
The Marten Hills oil battery, located in Central Alberta, was expanded to facilitate two stream butane and heavy oil blending.
The upgraded oil battery now achieves a maximum blended delivery rate of 16,560 bbl/d, with targeted blend ratios of 5% butane.
The expanded setup includes a blend skid with Coriolis metering, viscosity metering, and an inline vapour pressure analyzer.
CLAIRMONT BATTERY BLENDING ADDITION
The Clairmont oil battery was expanded to facilitate butane and heavy oil blending. The upgraded oil battery now has the capability to perform three stream blending, with blend ratios consisting of 65% light crude, 30% heavy oil, and 5% butane.
The battery expansion involved installing a new tank farm, a butane bullet, a blend skid, product offloading stations, and pumping infrastructure.
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