Sentences with phrase «getting oil sands crude»

Q: You've been an advocate of efficiently getting oil sands crude to market, but how economically viable is a pipeline when oil is well below $ 60?

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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-...]

In Alberta, these large pits of crude oil are trapped within sand, so getting the oil out of the sand is harder.

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 →

But one of the most serious concerns lies in getting heavy oil sands crude to refineries that can process it — an issue likely to grow in importance in coming years.

Alberta's tar sand reserves are now estimated to contain more than 175 billion barrels of crude oil, but to get to the huge reserves, excavators must remove the topsoil and then take out the underlying tar sands by lifted them into dump trucks.

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-...]