Sentences with phrase «carrying crude oil»

The announced ban on tanker traffic carrying crude oil on the north coast represents an opportunity for the government to make it impossible for all practical purposes for the Northern Gateway project to operate.

Three tanker cars carrying crude oil that derailed were leaking oil.

Lac - Megantic train explosion rekindles pipeline debate On Saturday, a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded destroying an historic part of Lac - Megantic, Quebec and killing at least four 13 people..

Most Canadians, however, first heard of Lac - Mégantic on July 6, 2013, when a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the city.

Areas of the Hudson River could be made off limits to barges carrying crude oil and other petroleum products on the basis of the risk they may pose to critical fish and wildlife habitats, waterfront communities, drinking water infrastructure and navigation safety.

«The bountiful and globally significant coastline can not bear an oil spill... we declare that oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

Until then, cargo ships carrying ore, coal, fertilizer and grain, as well as supertankers carrying crude oil and liquid natural gas, will travel back and forth between Europe and the Far East.

One such disaster was the July 5 inferno that devastated the small Quebec town of Lac - Mégantic after an unmanned train with 72 tank cars carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, killing at least 42 people.

The ship was U.S. - flagged and carrying crude oil bound for the U.S. market.

The bill taking shape could also make it more difficult for us to enhance the safety of rail cars carrying crude oil.

Today's Emergency Order, the fourth from DOT in less than a year, was issued in response to recent derailments involving trains carrying crude oil from the Bakken region and out of concerns over proper classification that are currently under investigation as part of Operation Classification, also known as the «Bakken Blitz.»

The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) will most likely require a minimum of two person crews for most mainline train operations including those trains carrying crude oil.

A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraq's Kurdish region anchors near Ashkelon, Israel.

July 6, 2014 • It's been a year since a train carrying crude oil exploded near a town in Quebec, killing nearly 50.

TORONTO, March 8 (Reuters)- A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying crude oil that derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama early on Saturday is still on fire, the company said late on Sunday.

A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying crude oil that derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama early on Saturday is still on fire, the company said late on Sunday

From the Reuters news report: A 90 - car train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in western Alabama in the early hours of Friday morning, spilling oil and leaving eleven cars burning in the rural area.

«Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, LLC, has proposed to construct two pipelines carrying crude oil and refined petroleum products between Albany, New York and Linden, New Jersey, cutting through the Town of Rosendale and 31 other towns, cities and villages in the Hudson Valley, Catskill Region and Capital District Area,» notes the letter.

The 178 - mile pipeline, if built, would run from Albany to Linden, N.J., carrying crude oil south and refined products north, largely along the New York State Thruway right - of - way.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.

When fully connected to existing lines, the line would be the first to carry crude oil from the Bakken shale directly to the U.S. Gulf.

Utah gets its gas from the Wasatch Pipeline, which carries crude oil from Evanston, Wyo., to Salt Lake City refineries.

One would carry crude oil, which arrives in Albany by train from North Dakota's Bakken Shale region, to the refinery.

«Because of a regulatory loophole, these trains can carry crude oil through some of our most densely populated areas without any limit on explosiveness or flammability — creating ticking time bombs that jeopardize the safety of countless New Yorkers and Americans,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

The proposed pipeline would connect Albany and Linden, NJ, and carry crude oil south and refined products north, about 200,000 barrels a day.

Under Pilgrim's plan, there would be two twinned lines: one to carry crude oil from the Port of Albany to a Phillips 66 refinery in Linden, N.J., about 150 miles south.

The pipeline will convert 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) of TransCanada's under - utilized natural - gas mainline system to carry crude oil through Saskatchewan to Cornwall, Ontario, near the Quebec border.

Designed to carry crude oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

The pipeline would carry crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois where it will link with another pipeline that will transport the oil to terminals and refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.

This pipe, installed in 1998, carries crude oil from a storage terminal on the west side of the bay to a refinery in Balikpapan.

In April, Kinder Morgan announced that they were planning to expand an existing pipeline that carries crude oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C..

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

Train tracks and tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains more likely to derail.

The Trans Mountain expansion almost triples the capacity of the existing pipeline, which is designed to carry crude from Canada's oil sands to the West Coast.

The port is one of only a few in Shandong, China's main oil importing province, where Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) carrying 2 million barrels of oil per trip can discharge oil to be pumped through pipelines for state and private refineries.

Activists in four states were arrested after they cut padlocks and chains and entered remote flow stations to turn off valves in an attempt to stop crude moving through lines that carry as much as 15 % of daily U.S. oil consumption.

The pipeline carries Canadian heavy crude oil from Patoka, Illinois to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast.

Analysts at Canaccord Genuity said Monday the project's $ 5.3 - bilion northern leg «is no longer a necessity» for Canadian oil sands producers, thanks to the sudden rise of crude - carrying unit trains and rival pipeline schemes proposed by Enbridge Inc..

Before the recent string of production disruptions, which were caused by militant blockades on pipelines carrying crude from three fields to export terminals, Libya was pumping over 1 million barrels of oil daily, eyeing 1.2 million bpd in output by the end of the year.

Whether the oil carried by Energy East is consumed in Canada or shipped abroad, it's not going to lower the price of crude.

It would still mean hundreds more tankers carrying much more crude oil through the Gulf Islands, past Victoria and up the west side of Vancouver Island.

Energy East would have given oil producers in Alberta and Saskatchewan, who are heavily dependent on buyers in the U.S., another market for their crude by carrying about 1.1 million barrels a day to refineries and a marine - shipping terminal in eastern Canada.

While it may not carry as much crude oil as Jubilee and the TEN field, it contains quantities of gas that have been committed for power production.

One pipeline would transport crude oil south while the other pipeline would carry refined products north.

The South End of Albany, as well as neighborhoods in Cohoes located near the «bomb» trains carrying Bakken crude oil still suffer from asthma, bronchitis and multiple cases of cancer that residents attribute to the air pollution.

The 356 miles of proposed pipelines from Albany to Linden, N.J., would carry heavy crude oil south and petroleum fuel north.

WOODSTOCK >> The Town Board has joined a chorus of local officials seeking to stop the proposed 178 - mile Pilgrim Pipeline from carrying Bakken crude oil and refined petroleum products through the region.

We risk our lives every time a train passes near us carrying Bakken crude oil.»