Sentences with phrase «for oil sands crude»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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..

Earlier this year, for instance, Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for bitumen from the oil sands, traded at nearly half the price of Brent crude.

The refinery will feature state - of - the - art design, specifically for processing Alberta oil sands heavy crude oil, and engineered to be the cleanest upgrading and refining site in the world.

Refiners don't particularly want tar sands oil, which is tougher to make into usable transportation fuel, so it sells for about $ 20 to $ 30 less per barrel than crude from Texas or the Dakotas.

After having the project rejected by former president Barack Obama, TransCanada Corp. has re-applied for approval of the Keystone XL line, which would deliver Alberta oil sands crude to refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

After my post last night got me reading Budget 1980 and the National Energy Program, I stumbled upon something completely fascinating: the hated National Energy Program proposed an indexed price for synthetic crude from oil sands projects which, had it been followed until today, would have been above the Canadian dollar price of WTI in -LSB-...]

Senator Henry Bellman of Oklahoma supported Goldwater regarding Texas chili, but indicated that to trade the «ketchup and sand» Arizona chili for the «crude oil flavored» Texas chili would only aggravate the situation.

And in the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim officials wrote: «While crude oil shipment downriver is a relatively recent phenomena on the Hudson River, the increasing production of crude in North America because of fracking, and Canadian tar sands, is likely to result in increasing demand to move the crude oil to coastal areas for shipment to refineries.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

CN is experiencing the greatest weakness in coal, crude oil, and sand for fracking.

The need for the BOC to act was created by sliding inflation, weaker crude prices (which threaten domestic sand oil production), and lagging employment growth.

This sense of movement mainly applies to the works hanging in the cavernous main room of the exhibition, where one finds 16 large oil paintings encrusted with pebbledash, a crude sort of cement composed of shells and sand that is used for building in Rees's native Wales.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

Albany's importance as a link in the energy - production chain is poised to grow under Global Partners» effort to win state permission to handle oil - sands crude and biofuels for shipping over objections of neighbors and environmental groups.

As prices for crude oil rise, tar sands - based oil production in the US has become more commercially attractive to both the government and industry.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

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

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries.

But bitumen and diluted bitumen aren't actually a kind of crude oil (the IRS actually relieves tar sands streams from some taxes for this very reason), they're a different beast altogether, as the spill responders at the Kalamazoo River learned the hard way.

When the boundary for measuring GHG emissions is placed around crude production and processing facilities, for fuels produced solely from Canadian oil sands the average well - to - wheels (WTW) life - cycle GHG emissions... Read more →

Enbridge has devised a way to ship more oil sands crude from Alberta to the US via its Alberta Clipper pipeline without getting further tangled in the type of review that has kept TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal mired in limbo for years: switching crude from one pipeline in its... Read more →

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

discounting the final consumption phase of the life - cycle assessment (which can contribute up to 70 % -80 % of Well - to - Wheel emissions), Well - to - Tank (i.e., «production») GHG emissions are, on average, 72 % -111 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

«It's bad for oil companies and the profit they were expecting from those projects, but from a climate perspective, it's tremendous,» said Danielle Droitsch, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of many environmental groups that oppose extracting the heavy oil sands crude.

Western Canadian Select, the benchmark for tar sands oil, trades at a discount to U.S. crude because it is lower - grade oil that's bought and sold in Hardisty, Alberta, far from U.S. refinery customers.

The freight rail network in North America is being turned into a conduit for crude oil from the landlocked Canadian tar - sands and the Bakken Shale, as construction timelines and permitting decisions are awaited for new pipelines.

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

In 2013, Global applied for a permit to allow it to handle heavy tar sands crude oil at the same facility.

This means that oil sands oil has overall (well to wheels) emissions some 17 % greater than for typical crude oil and most of these extra emissions are due to energy needed to extract bitumen from the ground.

One of the previous Healing Walks toured Martinez, California (pictured above and below), home to two refineries that process oil and tar sands crude — and also home to a strong resistance among residents who are fighting for the health of their community.

In its report, EPA seemingly compliments the State Department for confirming that Canadian tar sands oil is carbon intensive when compared to other heavy crudes, due to increased emissions associated with extracting and refining it.

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.»

Oil sands crude is critically important now and will be into the future, IHS says — which is why we here in the United States should be ever so grateful for our energy partnership with Canada and attentive to ways that relationship can be strengthened.

Whether it is tar sands oil, dilbit or conventional crude, oil spills are a mess to clean up and the oil industry should pay a cleanup fee for a barrel of one type of oil as it does for another.

Filed on behalf of 29 environmental and community groups and 36 individuals, the petition includes a list of nine policy recommendations for the safe transport of dilbit, a type of crude oil produced from Canada's oil sands region.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

Enbridge is expected to benefit as Keystone continues to languish in bureaucratic limbo awaiting a go - ahead from the Obama administration for its southern leg, which would carry Canadian «oil sands» crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast.»

If you traded in a Camry for a Prius and switched to oil - sands crude at the same time, your total emissions would still drop by 60 percent.

That doesn't make oil sands unimportant for the climate — and their importance will grow over time — but it does suggest that avoiding oil - sands crude isn't among our most useful strategies for keeping emissions low.

TransCanada, the «energy transfer company» responsible for getting the incredibly dirty diluted bitumen oil from the tar sands in western Canada, and also potentially Bakken crude, to refineries in Quebec City and St. Johns, New Brunswick, has notified the Canadian government that it is cancelling its proposed Energy East pipeline project, citing slowing growth in -LSB-...]

The pipeline would carry 525,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta's landlocked oil sands to the Pacific Coast for export.