Sentences with phrase «heavy oil pipelines»

Stepping into the void of inaction or deregulation by other levels of government, in recent years First Nations have banned proposed heavy oil pipelines from their territories, denied consent to... [more]

The BC Liberals have said the Trans Mountain expansion would be subject to the same conditions set out by the premier last summer for new heavy oil pipelines.

Nov. 5, 2013: The B.C. government capitulates on revenue - sharing, saying a share of Alberta's revenues from heavy oil pipelines is off the negotiating table.

Not exact matches

With the ability to refine and upgrade crude in Canada and 75,000 barrels per day of committed capacity on the existing Keystone pipeline, Husky says it can grow its heavy oil production without exposure to the WCS - WTI discounts until at least 2021.

Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's oil sands producers, said in March that it was operating at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends heavy oil south to U.S. markets.

And yes, the Dow has a heavy component of large industrial and energy companies which have recently soared on expectations that President Trump and his administration will sponsor new infrastructure spending projects and oil pipeline expansion.

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

And heavy oil is the kind of crude U.S. refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, at the other end of the pipeline, are geared to process.

So is scrutiny of ExxonMobil and the U.S. pipeline authority, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): the ruptured pipeline had been installed in the late 1940s, and ran through a densely populated area, yet it was transporting heavy crude, which might be more hazardous than regular oil.

The vow came as the Calgary - based company blamed clogged export pipelines for its worst heavy oil price discounts in five years during the first three months of 2018, contributing to a higher - than - expected $ 914 - million net loss in the first quarter.

But Alberta heavy oil is sometimes fetching as little as half the world price due to the competition from U.S. - produced shale oil and a shortage of pipelines to get the crude to the coasts and other refining markets.

He did manage to rattle off the well - known facts: the oilsands account for only of 1 / 10th of 1 % of global emissions; the pipeline would create thousands of American jobs; Canada has already reduced the emission intensity from heavy - oil extraction by 25 %.

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

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Guidance from pipeline company Enbridge Inc. that it will modestly reallocate some light oil pipeline space on its Mainline for heavy crude and additional rail capacity smoothed the flow of oil, analysts have said.

For western heavy oil and bitumen producers, tidewater access may have an important stabilizing effect as it would greatly expand the market for the product, which has previously been subject to large price swings motivated by refinery or pipeline outages in the midwest.

However, no matter what you think this pipeline will do, I can promise you that it won't convert heavy oil to light oil.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

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

But a majority of Americans, Republican lawmakers and construction union members welcomed the prospect of boosting reliance on a firm U.S. ally for new supplies of the heavy crude, which would be shipped by a pipeline built largely in this country and processed at Gulf Coast refineries uniquely capable of dealing with the low - grade oil.

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

«Conversion of pipelines to transport heavy oil and dilbit is technologically feasible and has been proposed in other parts of Canada,» said Donaldson.

«In the future, companies may try to get around the environmental approval process by seeking approval to build a natural gas pipeline, then converting it into a pipeline for transporting heavy oil.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's political future depends on landing a pipeline to carry heavy oil from the Alberta oil sands to tankers off the B.C. coast, and she is adamant a proposal by Kinder Morgan to expand its existing pipeline must proceed.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. says it choked back heavy oil production in the first quarter to avoid selling at low prices it blames on poor pipeline capacity out of Western Canada.

For years now pipeline advocates have argued that getting cheap bitumen or heavy oil to eastern refineries would be highly profitable due to the price difference between West Texas Intermediate, the North American benchmark and North Sea Brent, the global benchmark for oil.

«Hard information has been difficult to come by from either the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, or U.S. regulatory agencies, as to when the pipeline might return to full pressure and help to alleviate a backlog of heavy oil barrels that has been accumulating in Alberta against a rising tide of production.

While Canada's heavy oil producers are faced with the challenge of increasing rail volumes in the absence of a new export pipeline, they're also dealing with issues on an operational system into the U.S.

At this stage, we are of the view that the pipeline will be allowed to return to full operating pressure by the end of the second quarter of 2018, allowing additional heavy oil flows of up to 100,000 bbls / d to reach the U.S. Midwest market and the U.S. Gulf Coast market via TransCanada's affiliated Marketlink pipeline.»

That would place further constraints on oil producers that have already faced steep discounts on their heavy crude as Canada's pipeline system nears capacity, forcing more barrels to move by rail.

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

Historically, the Focus Fund has had heavy weightings of Consumer and Financial companies as well as general partners of Oil & Gas Pipelines (C corp).

The pipeline will provide access to cheaper oil and likely help reduce the discount level on oil from Northern geographies, that Bakken and Canadian heavy crude trade at.

Its portfolio of assets includes conventional oil, oil sands, heavy oil, and natural gas pipelines, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, and midstream storage facilities, and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.

The Company provides a range of heavy construction and mining, piling and pipeline installation services to customers in the Canadian oil sands, mineral mining, commercial and public construction and conventional oil and gas markets.

Heavy oil — ultimately at least 200,000 gallons and as many as 420,000 gallons — was still pouring through the tear in the pipeline and through the town.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

The Pegasus pipeline is one of the few pipelines currently supplying a heavy Canadian crude oil known as diluted bitumen, or dilbit, to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Neither personality addressed the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline is specifically designed to transport heavy crude to refineries and export - bound oil tankers on the Gulf Coast, precisely the scenario that could lead to more spills like the one unfolding in Galveston Bay.

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.

Champions of Keystone XL argue that it is essential to delivering jobs, oil and energy security, but the SEIS concluded that «not building the pipeline would have almost no impact on jobs; on US oil supply; on heavy oil supply for Gulf Coast refineries; or even on the amount of oil sands extracted in Alberta.»

One of the issues in the production of unconventional hydrocarbons such as Canadian oil sands or heavy oils is their inability to be transported via pipeline due to low API gravity, high viscosity or high pour point.

The hidden, long - term effects of the 2010 pipeline accident that spilled more than a million gallons of heavy Canadian crude oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River became public last week when the EPA revealed that large amounts of oil are still accumulating in three areas of the river.

TransCanada told Canada's National Energy Board that in the Midwest, its pipeline would «increase the price of heavy crude to the equivalent cost of imported crude,» which would provide Canadian oil companies with an added $ 2 - 3.9 billion in annual revenues.

A spill of heavy tar sands oil from the pipeline could create a major loss of jobs in America's heartland.

The spill required years and more than a billion dollars to clean up, and it highlighted the hazards of pumping heavy tar sands oil through pipelines.

My task was to find oil to fill a new heavy - oil pipeline that we had built from the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific Ocean.

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 ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured was carrying Wabasca Heavy crude, a type of bitumen mined in Canada's oil sands region.

Diluted bitumen, a controversial form of heavy Canadian oil, poses no more risks to pipelines than conventional oil, according to a long - awaited report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences.