Sentences with phrase «as heavier crude oil»

Not exact matches

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.

Hamm favors the approach of cutting off Venezuelan oil exports to the U.S., as well as stopping U.S. light sweet crude exports to Venezuela, which uses that type of crude to blend it with its heavy crude oil before shipping it to international markets.

Stressing that diluted bitumen doesn't behave exactly the same as other convention heavy crude oils, Kuprewicz also said that an oil spill response «may have to be considerably different for dilbit.»

But Alberta heavy oil is sometimes fetching as little as half the world price due to the competition from U.S. - produced shale oil and a shortage of pipelines to get the crude to the coasts and other refining markets.

Section 2 (1) of Bill 12 refers to refined products which (oddly) do not fall under the primary production from natural resources, which are defined so as to include crude oil and natural gas but, «not a product resulting from refining crude oil, refining upgraded heavy crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude oil.»

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.

It holds significant long - term potential as a market for western Canadian crude oil, particularly heavy grades.»

Canada's struggling oil market has found something of a lifeline as traders scramble for heavy crude due to OPEC production cuts and sinking Latin American output.

That would place further constraints on oil producers that have already faced steep discounts on their heavy crude as Canada's pipeline system nears capacity, forcing more barrels to move by rail.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

Oil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaOil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaoil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surface.

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.

Further, noting that mined natural resources, such as crude oil, may have widely variable chemical compositions and properties, the Safety Alert noted that crude oil being transported from the Bakken region of North Dakota may be more flammable than traditional heavy crude oil.

News that Exxon was spared from contributing the 8 - cents - per - barrel fee to the clean - up fund added insult to injury this week as cleanup crews discovered oil - soaked ducks covered in «low - quality Wabasca Heavy Crude from Alberta.»

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

The Pegasus pipeline is one of the few pipelines currently supplying a heavy Canadian crude oil known as diluted bitumen, or dilbit, to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

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 oil extracted is a thick, sticky form of crude known as bitumen, which emits more carbon than conventional oil when burned and the mining itself has a heavy environmental footprint, heavily opposed by climate and environmental activists.

PRELIM can simulate up to ten specific refinery process configurations, each requiring a different amount of energy to process a crude and producing a different slate of final products including transportation fuels as well as heavy fuel oil; hydrogen from the naphtha catalytic reforming proces;, refinery fuel gas; and the possible production of coke or hydrocracking residue.

Dilbit — the heavy, solvent - laced tar sands crude that oozed into the Kalamazoo River in 2010 and across Mayflower, Ark., in 2013 doesn't count, technically, as «oil.»

The NAS study deals a blow to one central safety argument made by opponents of the $ 5.3 billion Keystone XL link — that the heavier chemical components of so - called diluted bitumen make it more dangerous to ship — but made no attempt to address critics» second and more prominent concern, that a leak of oil sands crude would pose unique challenges during cleanup as well as unique risks to marine environments.

A report by the Canadian government warns that Canada and the U.S. will both shift toward heavier forms of crude oil as global sources of lighter crude become scarcer.