From pipeline operators to jobbers to brokers, everyone wants their fee, which doesn't automatically change with fluctuations in oil prices.
Not exact matches
Rail
operators want long - term deals
from shippers, but oil companies prefer to have the flexibility to shift to
pipelines if space becomes available.
Kinder Morgan bears no liability for oil spills originating
from a tanker that docks at its oil terminus, but this too should be changed, requiring the
pipeline operator to share the liability as long as the tanker is in Canadian waters.
«European utilities and North American
pipeline operators got a boost
from sticking to what they know best and shying away
from more risky enterprises and territories,» Harry Weber, senior natural gas writer of S&P Global Platts, said in an S&P statement.
The belief was that KMI would be immune to oil price volatility, given that they acted as a tollbooth
operator (they are a
pipeline company), and benefit
from take - or - pay contracts that generate revenue based on volume.
«Hard information has been difficult to come by
from either the
pipeline's
operator, TransCanada, or U.S. regulatory agencies, as to when the
pipeline might return to full pressure and help to alleviate a backlog of heavy oil barrels that has been accumulating in Alberta against a rising tide of production.
Bad policy backed by slipshod data equals damage to children, especially those
from Black, Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native households most - likely to be suspended, expelled and sent to juvenile justice systems (the school - to - prison
pipeline) as a result of districts and other school
operators overusing the most - punitive of school discipline.
The
Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is issuing this advisory bulletin to remind all onshore oil
pipeline operators of the circumstances of the 2010 Marshall, Mich.,
pipeline accident and the need to update Facility Response Plans (FRPs) every five years
from the date of last submission or the last approval.
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 the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed
pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt
from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Here's the tweet
from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands
pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.
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 Fund.
From the Tar Sands Action on Keystone XL, we know that the State Department handles the review for «crude oil»
pipelines (at least to the extent that they don't outsource the assessment process to the
pipeline operators themselves).
NTSB investigators also said a «culture of deviance» led control center
operators for Enbridge in Edmonton, Alberta, to deviate
from a company rule that the
pipeline should be shut down if, after 10 minutes of receiving a signal of a problem on the line, a reason for the problem could not be ascertained.
Gather
pipeline and compression parts
from the warehouse and take them to different compression stations or give to field
operators