Sentences with phrase «canadian oil transport»

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $ 1.8 million after accusing the Canadian oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan.

Not exact matches

The incident might result in restrictions on using rail to transport oil, which could increase the price discount for Canadian crude.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

«Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were no additional pipeline projects approved.»

The Calgary - based company has flagged a final investment decision in the not - too - distant future for the hotly - debated Keystone XL pipeline to transport Canadian oil to US refineries.

The discount on western Canadian oil is more than enough to compensate for the higher cost of unconventional transport.

Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

According to an internal document prepared by Environment Canada, released to CBC environment reporter Margo McDiarmid under Access to Information, Canadians are increasingly likely to question whether oil can be transported safely, whether by pipeline or rail.

The Canadian economy is dependent on oil and gas, including the pipelines that transport them.

There is nothing new about transporting this form of crude oil — and after nearly half a century, there is no evidence that internal corrosion is caused by transporting oil from the Canadian oil sands.

«To build a pipeline across America with foreign steel that takes Canadian oil and transports it abroad, while only creating 35 permanent jobs, does foreign nations far more good than it does the U.S.,» Schumer said last month.

It would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Canadian tar sands to refineries near Houston.

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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 imports.

This is a scary thought, especially since Transport Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard haven't reviewed their ability to respond to an oil spill for over ten years.

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.

Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.

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.

Since the Jones Act requires that goods transported between US ports be carried on US - flagged ships staffed and owned by US citizen, it is cheaper for the Canadians to ship the refined oil back to Canada on non-US carriers.

According to the Council of Canadians» primer on the subject, TransCanada wants to convert its Eastern Mainline pipeline, which currently transports natural gas and is operating at half capacity, into an tar sands oil pipeline that could carry eastward up to 850,000 barrels per day.

In fact, State Department officials recognized that progress in oil sands development has led to Canadian crude oil from oil sands that is «similar in composition and quality to the crude oils currently transported in pipelines in the U.S. and being refined in Gulf Coast refineries.»

Bemoaning the decision by the Obama administration to delay the approval of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport roughly a million barrels of Canadian oil... Continue Reading»

But a closer look at the new realities of the global oil market and at the companies who will profit from the pipeline reveals a completely different story: Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but rather transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border «The Keystone XL pipeline may be in political limbo, but that hasn't stopped another Canadian company from quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will ramp up the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S.. What's more, the company, Enbridge, is making those changes without a permit, and environmental groups say it is flouting the law.

But what makes transporting Canadian crude oil by rail attractive to investors?

At the annual meeting of the Canadian Transport Lawyers Association in Halifax, held September 24 - 27,2014, Bernard LLP partner Gary Wharton presented a paper on a panel dealing with Transportation Safety in the Age of Energy Security covering Canadian Developments in the Transportation of Oil by Sea.

«The closest that Energy East will get to a Canadian refinery is the Irving Refinery in New Brunswick, but even there, oil transported on the pipeline will not go to the refinery itself; instead it will be delivered to a new oil export terminal.»