Sentences with phrase «of heavy crude»

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.

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.

The Mayflower - Pegasus spill now brings into focus, perhaps for the first time, the increasingly popular industry practice of reversing and repurposing existing pipelines in order to transport booming supplies of heavy crude out of the tar sands region north of the border.

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 would bring more than 800,000 barrels per day of heavy crude from Canada's oil sands into Nebraska

Canadian producers are an alternate source of heavy crude for U.S. Gulf Coast refiners.

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

Crucially, much of that goes to the Gulf Coast, and nearly all of it is in the form of heavy crude, a type of oil for which Gulf Coast refiners are particularly equipped to handle.

Ecuador will forgo 846 million barrels of heavy crude reserves and, in turn, become the first developing country to propose an effective, quantifiable and verifiable carbon abatement model.

The B.C. government announced a halt to increased shipments of diluted bitumen until scientists can finally study what this toxic blend of heavy crude does when it spills.

Refiners of heavy crude along the Gulf include Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), Total SA (NYSE: TOT), Valero, Phillips66 Partners (NYSE: PSX) among others.

By the mid-2020s, the United States become the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter and a few years later a net exporter of oil — still a major importer of heavier crudes that suit the configuration of its refineries, but a larger exporter of light crude and refined products.

«Diluted bitumen is similar in chemical properties to many of the heavy crudes produced in California or Venezuela and transported safely across the U.S. for years.

TransCanada Defends Record With its Keystone XL proposal, pipeline giant TransCanada has proposed building and operating infrastructure designed to pump up to 900,000 barrels of heavy crude daily.

Examples of this kind of facility are in operation in Venezuela, enabling the production of heavy crude from the Orinoco River Basin.

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.

So is Mayflower, Arkansas, where an ExxonMobil pipeline burst earlier this year and dumped as much as 7,000 barrels of heavy crude onto the lanes and front lawns of a quiet suburban community.

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.

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

Gulf Coast refiners» traditional sources of heavy crudes, particularly Mexico and Venezuela, are declining and are expected to continue to decline.

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.

Many Republicans and some construction union members welcome the prospect of boosting reliance on a U.S. ally for new supplies of heavy crude, and argue that the pipeline would be cheaper and less hazardous than transporting the oil by rail.