42 Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for the removal of contaminants from heavy oil, bitumen, and refinery residue to create a synthetic crude oil; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for upgrading heavy oil, bitumen, tars, shale oil, or refinery residues to lighter, lower viscosity products, each of the systems having components selected from distillation towers, distillation columns, crude oil fractionators, crude oil flash drums, solvent deasphalting units and deasphalted oil crackers; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for desanding oils storage tanks in the oil and gas industry; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for maintaining oil tanks by removing slug from hydrocarbon storage tanks in the oil and gas industry; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for pretreating and dewatering crude emulsions in the oil and gas industry; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for the separation of oil and water in the oil and gas, marine, power, steel, and automotive industries which produce by-products consisting of immiscible liquids such as hydrocarbon and water mixtures; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for separating liquids utilizing centrifugal force; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for tar sands extraction; Engineering services in the oil and gas industry; Mechanical engineering services; Engineering consulting and engineering services provided to others in the oil and gas industry; Providing technical research services to others in the field of oil and gas; Design, development, improvement and testing of systems for upgrading heavy oil, bitumen, tars, shale oil, or refinery residues; Technology licensing and technology transfer services, licensing and assignment of intellectual property and know-how; and providing technology information related to computer software and hardware for a heavy oil upgrader system, each of the systems having components selected from distillation towers, distillation columns, fractionators, flash drums, solvent deasphalting units and deasphalted oil crackers, parts and accessories therefore; Preparation of engineering reports and design drawings; Providing technical research services to others in the field of the oil and gas industry; Engineering design and technology development for others in the oil and gas industry; Development of new technology, products and processes primarily for use by businesses which produce or process crude oil, bitumen or hydrocarbon residues or which require separation of immiscible liquids such as hydrocarbon and water mixtures; technology information namely computer software and hardware related to a heavy oil upgrader system, each of the systems having components selected from distillation towers, distiallation columns, fractionator, flash drums, solvent deasphalting units and deasphalted oil crackers, parts and accessories therefore