Sentences with phrase «alberta oil sands crude»

After having the project rejected by former president Barack Obama, TransCanada Corp. has re-applied for approval of the Keystone XL line, which would deliver Alberta oil sands crude to refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Not exact matches

Every few days, tankers freshly laden with crude from Alberta's oil sands squeeze through the shallow Second Narrows channel in Burrard Inlet, make their way through swift currents in the southern Gulf Islands and on towards offshore markets.

Meanwhile, Canada has already served notice that it will intensify efforts to find different markets for oil sands crude — notably China, which could be served with a new pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

State owned Chinese energy companies are not pouring billions of dollars into developing Alberta's oil sands so more synthetic crude or bitumen can be sent to refineries in Cushing Oklahoma.

Canadian crude — extracted from Alberta's controversial oil sands patch — is the cheapest oil in the world.

The refinery will feature state - of - the - art design, specifically for processing Alberta oil sands heavy crude oil, and engineered to be the cleanest upgrading and refining site in the world.

TransCanada has said its shippers remain committed to the project, which would deliver diluted bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast that are specifically equipped to process heavy crude.

In Alberta, these large pits of crude oil are trapped within sand, so getting the oil out of the sand is harder.

Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to extract more unconventional forms of oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as oil sand, or extremely heavy crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- TransCanada Corp on Thursday said it would move ahead with Canada's largest - ever pipeline, expanding the scale of its $ 12 billion plan to ship oil sands crude in the West to refiners on its east coast and beyond as its U.S. - bound Keystone XL line stalls in Washington.

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Enbridge has leading regional infrastructure in the Alberta oil sands and the Bakken area and a leading crude oil pipeline from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Midwest.

12 % of US Daily Crude Imports Done by Enbridge Enbridge Energy is intimately connected with expanding production of oil from the Alberta tar sands and delivering it to the United States — their 2009 annual report states that they transport 71 % of western Canadian crude exports, satisfying 12 % of US daily crude oil impCrude Imports Done by Enbridge Enbridge Energy is intimately connected with expanding production of oil from the Alberta tar sands and delivering it to the United States — their 2009 annual report states that they transport 71 % of western Canadian crude exports, satisfying 12 % of US daily crude oil impcrude exports, satisfying 12 % of US daily crude oil impcrude oil imports.

Designed to carry crude oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fuoil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust FuOil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline that would bring crude oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail editorial board, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the Keystone XL line is needed to connect the Alberta oil sands with refiners who have invested billions of dollar to upgrade their plants so that they can process heavy grades of crude.

Murray Edwards, the billionaire vice-chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., said that with oil sands production expected to expand from 1.5 million barrels a day to as much as 4 million barrels in the next 25 years, Alberta oil is much more likely to flow into the U.S. - even if overall U.S. crude demand continues to stagnate.

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries.

Enbridge has devised a way to ship more oil sands crude from Alberta to the US via its Alberta Clipper pipeline without getting further tangled in the type of review that has kept TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal mired in limbo for years: switching crude from one pipeline in its... Read more →

Annual production of non-upgraded bitumen and synthetic crude oil from Alberta's oil sands will increase almost 2.5 times by 2017 from 2007 levels, according to the just - published report... Read more →

It's known as the Keystone XL and it could pump millions more barrels of heavy crude from Alberta, Canada's oil sands mines to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast if the federal government greenlights it.

The multi-billion dollar refinery, which processes tar sands imported from Alberta, Canada, into crude oil, is located in Southwest Detroit bordering the neighboring communities of River Rouge, and Melvindale.

Keystone XL is a proposed oil pipeline owned by TransCanada that would carry toxic tar sands crude oil from deposits in Alberta, Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Large deposits of crude oil called tar sands are located in Alberta, Canada.

Western Canadian Select, the benchmark for tar sands oil, trades at a discount to U.S. crude because it is lower - grade oil that's bought and sold in Hardisty, Alberta, far from U.S. refinery customers.

TransCanada's proposed Energy East Pipeline would transport tar sands crude from Alberta, through Ontario and Quebec, and as far as New Brunswick's Irving Oil Ltd. refinery and port of Saint John.

Despite environmentalists» campaign to end oil sands development, crude from Alberta will be developed with or without the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, says Gary Doer, Canada's ambassador to the U.S..

The oil that would have flowed through the Keystone pipeline, extracted from a large sedimentary basin that includes the well - known oil sands of Alberta, has a higher carbon footprint than other, lighter crude.

He echoed Andrew Leach at the University of Alberta's point that while the climatologist James Hansen has said that burning all the crude in the oil sands -LSB-...]

Alberta's tar sand reserves are now estimated to contain more than 175 billion barrels of crude oil, but to get to the huge reserves, excavators must remove the topsoil and then take out the underlying tar sands by lifted them into dump trucks.

Alberta's internationally recognised «tar sand» reserves are now put at the equivalent of more than 175 billion barrels of crude oil.

The crude that spilled is Wabasca heavy oil and it's from Alberta near the area where there is oil sands production.»

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

They want the Obama administration to reject a Canadian company's application to construct the $ 7 billion, 1,702 - mile pipeline, which would carry heavy crude from the oil sands mines of Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

Experts have predicted a «high risk» of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

It currently takes as many as 3.1 barrels of water to produce one barrel of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands, according to the paper.

The pipeline would carry 525,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta's landlocked oil sands to the Pacific Coast for export.