Superior Upgrading Technologies

hammer technology™ offers a low-cost/low-risk solution to the upgrading problem by enabling zero-emissions 100-100,000 bpd upgrading facilities, which require less than $2,000/bpd in capital and cost less than $2/bbl to operate. instead of relying on high temperature to promote energetic molecular collisions hammer technology™ creates high-velocity fluid streams that break chemical bonds (thus cracking long-chain hydrocarbons) at near-ambient conditions. the biggest problem faced by oil industry in the western hemisphere is that oil production is constrained by available pipeline capacity at the same time 20 to 40% of pipeline capacity is taken up by diluent. the need for diluent not only reduces the effective pipeline capacity but also creates additional cost that ranges from $2 to $13/bbl. conventional solution to the diluent problem involves construction of multi-billion-dollar upgrading facilities, which are economical only at large scale and take years to deploy due to numerous po