Sentences with phrase «heavy oil sands crude»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

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

Oil sands are sand and rock material which contains crude bitumen, a heavy, viscous form of crude oOil sands are sand and rock material which contains crude bitumen, a heavy, viscous form of crude oiloil.

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.

TransCanada has said its shippers remain committed to the project, which would deliver diluted bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast that are specifically equipped to process heavy crude.

Genscape oil analyst Carl Evans said that, even with crude prices below $ 50 (U.S.) a barrel over the past two years, heavy bitumen production in Canada's oil sands region has continued to grow.

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.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Around two tons of tar sand must be processed to produce one barrel of heavy bitumen - based crude oil.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes 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.

(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.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail editorial board, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the Keystone XL line is needed to connect the Alberta oil sands with refiners who have invested billions of dollar to upgrade their plants so that they can process heavy grades of crude.

It's known as the Keystone XL and it could pump millions more barrels of heavy crude from Alberta, Canada's oil sands mines to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast if the federal government greenlights it.

Perhaps not so ironically, the House vote on Terry's bill happened on the one - year anniversary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan being fouled with 800,000 - plus gallons of heavy crude from oil sands.

Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the extracted bitumen into usable crude oil.

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

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

Dilbit — the heavy, solvent - laced tar sands crude that oozed into the Kalamazoo River in 2010 and across Mayflower, Ark., in 2013 doesn't count, technically, as «oil.»

A postscript to our post explaining that the crude oil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezueoil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from VenezueOil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezuela.

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.

Although the amount of convential oil will continue to decline, there are estimated 10 - 15 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in unconvential oil which include heavy and extra heavy crude oils and the oil shale and sand.

The crude that spilled is Wabasca heavy oil and it's from Alberta near the area where there is oil sands production.»

«Don't pick winners and losers among all the heavy oil being produced in the world: Mexico, Nigeria, Venezuela, not to mention California heavy crude that has a higher greenhouse - gas footprint than our tar sands oil.»

They want the Obama administration to reject a Canadian company's application to construct the $ 7 billion, 1,702 - mile pipeline, which would carry heavy crude from the oil sands mines of Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

Instead of transporting heavy crude from Canada's tar sands, the pipeline would tap into the booming Bakken oil fields of Montana and North Dakota.

The NAS study deals a blow to one central safety argument made by opponents of the $ 5.3 billion Keystone XL link — that the heavier chemical components of so - called diluted bitumen make it more dangerous to ship — but made no attempt to address critics» second and more prominent concern, that a leak of oil sands crude would pose unique challenges during cleanup as well as unique risks to marine environments.

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences found that «pipelines carrying heavy Canadian oil sands fuel are at no greater risk of a spill than those running conventional crude.»