Sentences with phrase «gulf coast refineries»

Hundreds have been arrested recently, for protesting the proposed «XL» pipeline to deliver tar sands - extracted oil to US Gulf Coast refineries.

Oil companies, hard pressed lately to come up with oil reserves away from crowds brandishing Kalashnikov's, can breath a sigh of relief - as will their stockholders - if the XL pipeline is approved and Gulf Coast refineries let to expand as if it were 1960 again.

Keystone XL is the continent - spanning pipeline project intended to pump dirty, expensive tar - sands bitumen (i.e., sludge) from Alberta to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

Canada's oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf Coast refineries, the analysis said.

As you may know (and as is mentioned in the video), the US is currently considering, and likely to approve, a pipeline that would pump the tar sands oil to Gulf Coast refineries for US consumption.

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.»

The additional capacity enabled the transportation of additional Canadian crude from the Midwest to Gulf Coast refineries.

Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline — which would carry up to 830,000 barrels of dilbit per day from Canada's oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries — welcomed the study's results.

Currently, with Mexican heavy crude production dropping, Mexican exports to Gulf Coast refineries has fallen.

Republicans have said approving the pipeline, built to pump tar sands crude to Texas Gulf Coast refineries, would be an early order of business.

Champions of Keystone XL argue that it is essential to delivering jobs, oil and energy security, but the SEIS concluded that «not building the pipeline would have almost no impact on jobs; on US oil supply; on heavy oil supply for Gulf Coast refineries; or even on the amount of oil sands extracted in Alberta.»

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline for transporting oilsands - derived crude to Gulf Coast refineries would have «no material impact» on US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a new Insight report by IHS CERA.

The U.S. oil industry is playing the «China card» in urging the American government to quickly approve TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which will deliver oil sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries.

The bill authorizes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the $ 7 billion shovel - ready project to deliver up to 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil to Midwest and Gulf Coast refineries.

The real goal of the pipeline is to move tar - sands - derived bitumen from the Midwest, where it is currently backed - up, to Gulf Coast refineries.

I've got nothing against the passions of those — including friends of mine — pushing hard to persuade President Obama not to let the Keystone XL pipeline move forward and carry bitumen from Canadian deposits to United States Gulf Coast refineries.

In the film, based on a true story, Morgan plays a detective transplanted from New York who teams with a local investigator (Sam Worthington) to work on a series of unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries, where as many as 70 bodies turned up over the past two decades.

Plans call for running the 3,200 - kilometer - long pipeline from Canadian tar - sands fields to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries

As a result, exports through the Trans Mountain Pipeline will likely command a lower price than exports to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

In addition, U.S. Gulf Coast refineries that Keystone XL will feed are designed to run heavy crude, such as Alberta's, as opposed to the light - grade oil from the shale formations.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline to Texas Gulf Coast refineries awaits some final approvals in the United States.

But a majority of Americans, Republican lawmakers and construction union members welcomed the prospect of boosting reliance on a firm U.S. ally for new supplies of the heavy crude, which would be shipped by a pipeline built largely in this country and processed at Gulf Coast refineries uniquely capable of dealing with the low - grade oil.

The completed pipeline would move roughly 830,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

Rhode Island gas prices typically reflect what happens with Gulf Coast refineries.

U.S. Gulf Coast refineries have started to come back online, easing fears of a major fuel shortage, although bottlenecks and localized scarcities will persist for some time.

Eagle Ford shale drillers were forced to shut in some shale output as both the takeaway capacity (i.e., pipelines) and Gulf Coast refineries went offline, backing up crude at the wellhead.

Goldman raises the possibility that the comeback in shale production could be curtailed by the sustained outages at Gulf Coast refineries, a scenario that it says is underappreciated by market analysts.

And so far, there has not been reports of major damage at the Gulf Coast refineries, although with flood waters still in the Port Arthur area, it is still unknown how quickly they will return to operation.

Other factors include a lower supply while Gulf Coast refineries wrap up their seasonal switch to summer gasoline blends, plus the annual price pressure that accompanies increased summer driving.

Those include Enbridge's 600,000 barrel - a-day Flanagan South line from Illinois to Oklahoma and Keystone XL's southern leg, which would link the storage hub of Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries and is nearing completion.

Consider the brinkmanship over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Albertan oil to Gulf Coast refineries in the United States.

«While the increase in U.S. production of crude oil and the reduced U.S. demand for transportation fuels will likely reduce the demand for total U.S. crude oil imports, it is unlikely to reduce demand for heavy sour crude at Gulf Coast refineries.»

Despite the shale boom, Gulf Coast refineries still need Alberta's oil.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

Crude oil prices inched up after the EIA reported a smaller - than - expected build of 5.9 million barrels in crude oil inventories for the week to September 8, after a 4.6 - million - barrel build in the prior week due to the Gulf Coast refinery shutdowns.

Not exact matches

CEO Rob Peabody said Husky cut back heavy oil production by about 5,000 barrels per day in the first quarter and substituted mainly blended bitumen bought from other Alberta oilsands companies to send to its U.S. refineries in Ohio and Wisconsin or to the refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Pipeline reversal projects such as the Enbridge Seaway reversal and the TransCanada Gulf Coast Marketlink project in the U.S. have begun to drain the glut of crude from the midwest by more cost - effective transportation options, and some significant refinery outages have finished in the U.S. midwest, adding demand.

Marathon's operations are well established in the Gulf Coast and Midwest, while Andeavor has largely focused on building out refineries and pipelines in the California, mid-continent, and the Pacific Northwest.

The pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners LP, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

There has also been a massive buildout of oil pipelines in the U.S., taking crude from the Bakken and the Permian to refineries on the East and Gulf Coasts.

Last month, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), which represents more than 95 percent of the U.S. refining sector, sent a letter to President Trump, in which it argued that refineries along the Gulf Coast have made substantial investments to process heavy crude, particularly of the Venezuelan variety.

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast.

That sounds reasonable, as the Gulf Coast is home to most of the nation's biggest refineries, many of which can process heavy Canadian crude.

Think of Kinder Morgan's Trans - Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to refineries and terminals in B.C. and Washington and branch lines carrying heartland oil to the Gulf Coast operated by Enbridge and ExxonMobil as small leaks in the great oil dam.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis report on refinery shutdowns in the Texas Gulf Coast as people take precautions against the powerful hurricane.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on Tropical Storm Harvey impacting the oil refineries near the Gulf Coast.

The 1,100 - mile (1770.28 - km) pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Due to the conversion of some Midwestern refineries to heavy grades and improving pipeline access to heavy - grade refineries on the Gulf Coast, prices for these coarser crudes could in fact be on the way up.