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Upgrader
An upgrader is a plant used to lower the density of extra-heavy crude oil (bitumen) before sending it to market.
Upgraders employ standard refining bottoms conversion processes such as cokers and resid hydrocrackers to crack extra-heavy crude into a mix of lighter components.
Upgraders are most common in the Western Canada oil sands and the Orinoco Belt of Venezuela.
