Sentences with phrase «for oil sands»

Successfully engineered Control Narratives / Cause and Effect diagrams for shut down keys that described the complete electrical operation for oil sands plant.

Victoria lawyer Robert Janes, counsel for the bands, told an Ottawa press conference earlier this year the lake at Frog Lake would no longer be protected, nor would many of «the vast number of navigable waterways» in Mikisew traditional territory making them vulnerable to being dug up for oil sands development.

To make approvals easier for oil sands projects and related pipelines, the Fisheries Act will be particularly affected.

Government officials use historical data to establish a carbon intensity benchmark for each oil sands facility, and under the regulation producers are required to reduce annual emissions intensity to 12 per cent (15 per cent in 2016 and rising to 20 per cent in 2017) below their respective per - barrel benchmarks.

Former Conservative Minister Jim Prentice admits that pipelines are needed for oil sands growth:

The push for the oil sands projects and similar extractions off the gulf coast, rests on a hidden decision to drive our economy into collapse and to such an extent, that these oil sources will be ESSENTIAL for moving what remains of this economy forward, once the dollar looses all purchasing power.

In a post for Medium, Clinton called Canadian oil sands North America's «dirtiest fuel» — despite the fact that during her leadership the U.S. State Department approved a cross-border permit for another oil sands pipeline in 2009, with the department determining that the «addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States.»

How much greater would the carbon surcharge be for oil sands oil?

SDTC awards C$ 1.5 M to support Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification for hydrogen production; targeting reduced GHG footprint for oil sands synthetic crude

He adds, «What is really bad news for offshore is good news for the oil sands.

I look at the forecast growth for oil sands output, do the math and come to the conclusion that to move the incremental output to market we need the Keystone AND the Kinder Morgan expansion AND the Northern Gateway AND a pipeline to Eastern Canada.

Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region.

Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the oil sands operations in Alberta.

Hall, who wasn't involved in Hughes» study, thinks the EROI for oil sands would fall closer to 1:1 if the tar sands» full life cycle — including transportation, refinement into higher quality products, end use efficiency and environmental costs — was taken into account.

The full - time lobbyists out to block pipelines like Keystone XL are abusing the scientific data, Coane explains, by throwing around the emissions statistics for oil sands production and refining, without taking into account the more meaningful well - to - wheels analysis:

Average values for WTW GHG emissions for oil sands and other crudes, tight boundary.

The problem of increased water traffic is not unknown for oil sands pipelines.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not hesitate to give approval for another oil sands pipeline, known as the Alberta Clipper, in August 2009, which the EPA had also reviewed more favorably.

Michael Levi says, «slash oil demand and the need for oil sands goes away.»

Mature fine tailings are the big problem for oil sands extraction.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

Single - digit oil prices for oil sands is not just a problem, it is an existential crisis.

In particular, the company has big plans for oil sands operations, where volumes are likely to climb 25 % -40 %.

Again, you could choose to give Young the benefit of the doubt that he was only talking about cars, not trucks, and then you are likely pretty close to the right number for oil sands emissions.

This suggests that access to capital and the cost of borrowing may become increasingly challenging for oil sands companies.

And while I would not purport to answer that question here, Figure 3.2 of the NGP Report (Northern Gateway Forecast of United States versus China and India Oil Demand) does suggest that market access, or lack thereof, could be a limiting factor for oil sands production.

My University of Alberta colleague Andrew Leach is fond of pointing out that exports of manufactured products from Southwestern Ontario push up the value of the Canadian dollar, making life more difficult for oil sands producers.

Canada's economy can't meet its emissions target because trying to do so would thwart the production gains slated for the oil sands.

Big Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil sands.

Meanwhile, Canada has already served notice that it will intensify efforts to find different markets for oil sands crude — notably China, which could be served with a new pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

You'd have a separate supply curve for oil sands which would tell you how oil sands production would respond to changes in oil prices and, also, how oil prices might respond to changes in oil sands production.

It's not hard to figure out where this is going for oil sands producers.

Stay tuned for updates on this developing story of how Vancouver, the «greenest city in the world,» may quietly become the main tanker route for oil sands crude bound for China.

The difference between Brent and a barrel of Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for oil sands product, was even more significant, a fact that had caused considerable hand wringing in downtown Calgary as well as on Parliament Hill.

Executive director Ed Whittingham lambasted the government's «five - year track record of failing to meaningfully tackle greenhouse gas pollution and avoiding federal responsibility for oil sands development.»

With cash operating costs of $ 34.45 per barrel for its oil sands operations, Suncor has retained a healthy cash margin through the downturn.

First, I want to look at how the changes not just in oil prices, but also changes in diluent costs, discounts for oil sands crude relative to light crude and, in particular, the fall of the Canadian dollar have changed the outlook for new oil sands projects — for those under construction, and for those currently operating.

But if we didn't get the right people with the right skills to move, we might solve the problem of restaurant workers, but we wouldn't solve the problem of engineering for the oil sands.»

Not exact matches

«Despite the temporary pullback in production in the first quarter, we still expect our oil sands volumes for the year to be within our original guidance of 364,000 to 382,000 barrels per day,» he told a conference call with analysts.

Job creation is projected to slow down over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and a slower growth in international demand for oil products, but the growing demand for base metals is expected to buoy employment opportunities.

Grantham also has strong views on the oil market, which isn't surprising for a devoted environmentalist who participated in Keystone pipeline protests and has called for the death of the «tar sands.»

Shell agreed last year to sell most of its stake in the oil sands to Canadian Natural for $ 7.25 billion.

The oil and gas giant announced that it was unloading its oil - sands assets, for $ 7.25 billion, so that it could double down on businesses «where we have global scale and a competitive advantage.»

The latest National Energy Board forecasts for increases in oil sands production through 2025 roughly add up to what Keystone and Trans Mountain could handle, says University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.

-- One pipeline would carry up to 525,000 barrels a day of oil sands products west to Kitimat for export.

Job creation is, however, projected to slow over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and slower growth in international demand for oil products.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

What will also be an issue, potentially for legal appeal, is what the Joint Review Panel didn't consider: the impacts of oil sands development.

In order to understand the impact of the oil price crash on oil sands, you need to look at the implications for each of these categories.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.