Sentences with phrase «canadian oil sands»

Alberta's economy is much more diversified than it used to be however it is impossible to replace the revenue generation of the Canadian oil sands, the world's largest pool of untapped oil reserves.

He has also been seconded to a major Canadian oil sands owner, where he assisted in the development and alignment of a full suite of EPC / CM standard form contracts.

Acted for engineer and maintenance provider in project administration / risk management role and in resolution of large - scale payment dispute with significant Canadian oil sands owner.

Keystone XL Pipeline: A Potential Mirage for Oil - sands Investors challenges many of the economic assumptions surrounding the pipeline, and shows how investors in Canadian oil sands could be facing both economic and environmental exposures.

Lower oil prices may be cutting into the financial viability of Canadian oil sands projects, but as soon as oil prices rise again (and they will...) the drive to exploit one of the most environmentally destructive form of energy on

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences found that «pipelines carrying heavy Canadian oil sands fuel are at no greater risk of a spill than those running conventional crude.»

«The second inaccuracy here is that oil spilled in Mayflower is diluted bitumen from the Canadian oil sands.

So whether or not the Obama Administration approves the project, the Canadian oil sands will be extracted, and ultimately the carbon dioxide contained in these deposits will be released into the atmosphere.

In a post for Medium, Clinton called Canadian oil sands North America's «dirtiest fuel» — despite the fact that during her leadership the U.S. State Department approved a cross-border permit for another oil sands pipeline in 2009, with the department determining that the «addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States.»

The worldwide economic recession that hit in 2008 affected the Canadian oil sands significantly.

The first Company to extract it was Great Canadian Oil SAnds, 96 % owned by Sun OIl of Philadelphia.

In other words, every gallon of gasoline you burn in your car produces pretty much the same amount of CO2 whether it originally came from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Coast, or the Canadian oil sands.

Canadian oil sands producers, facing a double whammy of low oil prices and higher taxes in Alberta, are slashing spending, suspending production, cutting jobs and halting shareholder dividends.

Canadian oil sands development is now operating at scale, the shale gas and tight oil revolutions are upon us in the United States, and major institutional energy reforms in Mexico are under way that could enable substantial new investment in the Mexican oil and gas sector.

Some of the world's oil comes from my native country in the Canadian oil sands of northern Alberta.

Levant's other partner at the Institute is Calgary lawyer Thomas Ross, who is a partner at the law firm McLellan Ross and one of the leaders of the firm's OilSandsLaw.com initiative («dedicated to working with those operating in the Canadian oil sands»).

We could do that — if radical greens in the Obama Administration, United Nations and eco pressure groups would end their ideological opposition to leasing, drilling, fracking, Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development, Canadian oil sands, the Keystone pipeline and countless other projects.

The Colorado plaintiffs, like the cities and counties suing oil companies in California, accuse Exxon and the Canadian oil sands company Suncor of creating a public nuisance through the burning of fossil fuels that is costing them money and putting their residents and property at risk.

Longer term, a major issue remains: will lower - cost supply severely impact higher - cost exports, like the Canadian oil sands.

Last Wednesday and Thursday, courtesy of the good folks at American Petroleum Institute (API), I and other bloggers toured two large Canadian oil sands projects near Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Michael Levi, author of a Council on Foreign Relations study of the Canadian oil sands, told the Washington Post that, with the decision, «the Obama administration made clear that it's not going to go about its climate policy in a crude, blunt way».

So the governor and his constituents have real experience dealing with a pipeline from the Canadian oil sands.

News Articles Featured Nathan Vanderklippe Globe and Mail March 20, 2013 Read the full article on the originating site Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver this week told a Vancouver audience that British Columbians have nothing to fear from Pacific exports of Canadian oil sands crude.

discounting the final consumption phase of the life - cycle assessment (which can contribute up to 70 % -80 % of Well - to - Wheel emissions), Well - to - Tank (i.e., «production») GHG emissions are, on average, 72 % -111 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

The Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, announced this week that he favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude from the Canadian oil sands and our own Bakken shale region to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

ConocoPhillips announced the second phase of the Surmont project, a Canadian oil sands steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) facility.

compared to selected imports, Canadian oil sands crudes range from 9 % to 19 % more emission - intensive than Middle Eastern Sour, 5 % to 13 % more emission - intensive than Mexican Maya, and 2 % to 18 % more emission - intensive than various Venezuelan crudes, on a Well - to - Wheel basis;

Most of the oil shipped on the line will come from Canadian oil sands producers, which have been under from some U.S. environmental groups and legislators for boosting greenhouse gas emissions because of expanding production in the oil sands — a Florida - sized region of northern Alberta that contains the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East.

One of the issues in the production of unconventional hydrocarbons such as Canadian oil sands or heavy oils is their inability to be transported via pipeline due to low API gravity, high viscosity or high pour point.

The Pembina Institute, an environmental group based in Alberta, Canada, has issued a cautionary environmental report on the effects of the boom in Canadian oil sands production.

BP is moving into the Canadian oil sands by acquiring a half - share in the Sunrise field, located in the Athabasca oil sands in northeast Alberta, operated by Husky Energy.

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well - to - wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands.

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary... Read more →

The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue.

When the boundary for measuring GHG emissions is placed around crude production and processing facilities, for fuels produced solely from Canadian oil sands the average well - to - wheels (WTW) life - cycle GHG emissions... Read more →

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.

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO2 emissions (ranging between 5.4 % to 9.3 %) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon... Read more →

(For example, total Canadian oil sands production reached about 2.3 million barrels per day in 2014, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator.)

Indeed, Canadian oil sands exports could exceed the refining capacity in the Midwest by 2015, IHS CERA, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass., said in a submission to the State Department.

Particularly relevant to the Canadian oil sands is the opportunity to change the way water is distributed on the North American continent.

There's been extensive coverage of President Obama's decision, forced by a Republican legislative maneuver, to reject the application for a much - debated pipeline project, known as Keystone XL, that would have carried a tarry oil precursor from Canadian oil sands to American refineries.

The Canadian oil sands industry — which stirs controversy in Canada as well as other countries, as my colleague Clifford Krauss recently reported — has also been buffeted recently by the falling price of oil, and by volatility in the Canadian - U.S. dollar exchange rate.

Production for Baaken and the Canadian oil sands continues to increase faster than pipeline and transportation capacity.

He lost a lot of money in stocks like Canadian oil sands and others and that's when he knew he'd run out of inventive ideas to keep his portfolio going on stocks.

The Company provides a range of heavy construction and mining, piling and pipeline installation services to customers in the Canadian oil sands, mineral mining, commercial and public construction and conventional oil and gas markets.

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.

Clear winners are the gulf coast refiners based in the U.S. Oil from the Canadian oil sands currently trade at a discount to oil along the Gulf Coast and WTI.

The plays off of the pipeline construction are improved probability by the Canadian oil sands producers, a slight positive impact on Gulf Coast margins, and the construction and E&C companies involved.

Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will improve the ability of producers to export south from the Canadian oil sands, across the U.S. border to Steele City, Nebraska.