Sentences with phrase «heavy crude oil»

It adds that «approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.»

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

(US$ / barrel) front month futures of Net Energy Canadian Heavy Crude Oil index, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)

In June 2010, that pipeline, two years in the making, began carrying heavy crude oil from Alberta's tar sands to its southern terminus in Cushing, Okla., and its eastern terminus in Patoka, Ill..

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.»

Since oil pipelines per se are nothing new, opponents such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have specifically targeted the fact they will transport bitumen — heavy crude oil loaded with contaminants — rather than lighter crude.

According to State, no single infrastructure project would «significantly impact» either the «rate of extraction» of Canada's oil sands or the «continued demand for heavy crude oil» by U.S. refineries.

The ruling arose from the expropriation of ConocoPhillips» investments in two heavy crude oil projects in 2007 at a time then - President Hugo...

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

That decision enabled Canadian Natural Resources to keep its primary heavy crude oil production decline to just 1 % sequentially last quarter, as it took the first steps toward reversing an 18 % year - over-year decline.

In this podcast, Nayeem Islam and Michelle Dathorne discuss Kinder Morgan's announcement to suspend work on its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project and the anticipated effects on heavy crude oil price and production volumes.

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.

There are also some differences in the relative mix of oil and gas produced in the two countries, with Canada producing relatively more natural gas (and the North American price has declined in recent years) and more heavy crude oil, which is worth less than light oil.

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

Experiments at the Philadelphia thermal depolymerization plant have converted heavy crude oil, shale, and tar sands into light oils, gases, and graphite - type carbon.

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.

The report said an estimated 5,000 barrels — 210,000 gallons, or enough to fill about a third of an Olympic - sized swimming pool — of heavy crude oil poured from the ruptured pipeline.

This can be a solution for high quality waxy crude as well as heavier crude oil.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Middle Eastern nations begin costly and energy - intensive attempts to tap their vast reserves of molasses - thick heavy crude oil.

Pipeline giant Enbridge, Inc. has almost finished cleaning up its 2010 spill that sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of heavy crude oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River.

The diluted bitumen that spilled from 6B was lighter than water and considered heavy crude oil.

Commodity prices have remained at historically elevated levels, although persistent transportation bottlenecks are leading to continued discounts for Canadian heavy crude oil.

Hansen was arrested in February while protesting the proposed construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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

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.

Heavy crude oil isn't anything new.

The completed pipeline would move roughly 830,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

The company also produces conventional oil, heavy crude oil, and natural gas.

Upton's campaign website names him «a champion of the Keystone XL pipeline,» a project that could send 800,000 barrels of carbon - heavy crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Texas.

The hydrogen part is pretty easy to find using steam cracking — a process that is widely used in refineries to upgrade heavy crude oil.

Much of the fuel refined from the pipeline's heavy crude oil will never reach U.S. drivers» tanks.

Unlike conventional oil, which usually floats on water, dilbit is composed of bitumen — a heavy crude oil — and light hydrocarbons used to thin the bitumen so it can flow through pipelines.