State owned Chinese energy companies are not pouring billions of dollars into developing Alberta's oil sands so
more synthetic crude or bitumen can be sent to refineries in Cushing Oklahoma.
Not exact matches
Annual production of non-upgraded bitumen and
synthetic crude oil from Alberta's oil sands will increase almost 2.5 times by 2017 from 2007 levels, according to the just - published report... Read
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Source: RAND A new report from RAND concludes that in 2025,
synthetic crude oil (SCO) produced from oil... Read
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Energy economist Andrew Leach has looked at the economics of refining in Canada (here, here and here) and claims that producers can make
more money by selling raw bitumen than they could by upgrading it to
synthetic crude oil or by refining it into fuel products.