Manana Kochladze's tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and multinational industry interests won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment in the former Soviet republic from the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan
oil export pipeline.
Her fearlessness and tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and industry interests have won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment from being steamrolled by the development of the world's biggest
oil export pipeline.
«At about 7:30 pm, the Niger Delta Avengers blow up ExxonMobile Qua Iboe 48 ″ crude
oil export pipeline.»
Major Producing Oil Fields: Samotlor, Romashkino, Mamontov, Fedorov, Lyantor, Arlan, Krasnolenin, Vatyegan, Sutormin Major Oil Terminals: Novorossiisk (Black Sea), Tuapse (Black Sea), Primorsk (Baltic Sea); Russia also uses ports at Ventspils (Latvia), Odesa (Ukraine), Klaipeda (Lithuania), and Butinge (Lithuania) Major
Oil Export Pipelines outside the Commonwealth of Independent States: Friendship (Druzhba)(1.2 million bbl / d nominal capacity) Major Oil Refineries (1 / 1 / 02E)(Capacity in bbl / d): Omsk (566,000), Angarsk (441,000), Nizhniy Novgorod (438,000), Grozny (390,000), Kirishi (388,000), Novo - Ufa (380,000), Ryazan (361,000), Novo - Kuibishev (309,000), Yaroslavl (290,000), Perm (279,000), Ufaneftekhim (251,000), Salavatnefteorgsintez (247,000), Moscow (243,000), Ufa (235,000), Syzran (211,000), Volgograd (200,000), Saratov (177,000), Orsk (159,000), Samara - Kuibishev (154,000), Achinsk (147,000), Ukhta (127,000), Nizhnekamsk (120,000), Komsomolsk (108,000) Major Foreign Oil Company Involvement: Agip, BP, British Gas, ChevronTexaco, Conoco, ExxonMobil, Neste Oy, Norsk Hydro, McDermott, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Royal Dutch / Shell, Statoil, and TotalFinaElf.
Not exact matches
Later, on the sidelines of Suncor's annual general meeting, Williams said he hopes that «good sense and reason prevail» but added Suncor has a contingency plan in case Alberta follows through with its plan to restrict
oil or refined fuel
exports through the existing Trans Mountain
pipeline to B.C.
-- One
pipeline would carry up to 525,000 barrels a day of
oil sands products west to Kitimat for
export.
Take, for example, a Chinese company that wants to build a
pipeline to the B.C. coast to
export oil to China.
Black has also said he thinks his proposed refinery, by providing permanent jobs and economic benefits to British Columbians hitherto wary of
oil exports, «will change the debate on the
pipeline.»
«The people of B.C. don't want our Pacific coast to be transformed into a
export facility for dirty
oil, no matter where the proposed
pipeline runs,» says Ben West of the Wilderness Committee, an environmental group.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was «profoundly disappointed» that Obama delayed a decision on the
pipeline, and has spoken of the need to diversify Canada's
oil exports.
The
pipeline is critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to
export its growing
oil sands production.
Canada ships nearly all of its crude
oil exports to the United States, and Mexico's appetite for natural gas has driven a boom in U.S.
pipeline shipments in recent years.
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.
With approval of the Keystone
Pipeline it could mean more Canadian crude
oil is coming to the U.S. CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis is in Nebraska, at the
pipeline pumping station with a look at its impact on
oil prices and
exports.
Considering the opposition to Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway
oil pipeline to the Pacific, the gas
export play is hardly certain.
The costs of the discount are increasing as delays continue for all three major proposed
oil pipelines to
export more
oil from Western Canada, including Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion, Enbridge's Line 3 replacement, and TransCanada's Keystone XL.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday his province will support Alberta in the fight over the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion by introducing its own legislation on
oil exports.
Hence the drive to build
pipelines and
export terminals to the Pacific Ocean is becoming for Canada's
oil and gas industry an existential quest.
American
pipeline company Kinder Morgan's announcement that it will expand its Trans - Mountain
oil pipeline to 850,000 barrels a day confirms something
pipeline watchers have been quietly saying for a while: it will likely beat Enbridge in the race to build a big oilsands
export pipeline to the Pacific.
On Monday, Kinder Morgan Canada formally applied to the National Energy Board for permission to triple the capacity of its Trans - Mountain
oil pipeline from Edmonton to the Pacific Coast and expand
export capacity at its Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C.. We'll spare you the details of the 15,000 - page filing.
And as if to make room for more foes in the federation, Kenney also hinted he could cut off
oil exports to B.C. if Premier John Horgan, another New Democrat, takes action to block the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion.
Not only are
oil producers trying to back out from Alberta Clipper, but Enbridge itself has battled an effort by TransCanada Corp. to build another major
pipeline, called Keystone XL, to
export crude to the U.S..
Before the recent string of production disruptions, which were caused by militant blockades on
pipelines carrying crude from three fields to
export terminals, Libya was pumping over 1 million barrels of
oil daily, eyeing 1.2 million bpd in output by the end of the year.
The primary beneficiaries of the Trans Mountain
pipeline are Houston's Kinder Morgan, Alberta's slumping
oil sector, controlled by foreign multinationals such as Exxon and Shell, and
export markets in Asia, primarily China.
With regard to
oil exports, the product from Alberta has to be moved across B.C. (more
pipelines needed) and shipped in tankers (more port construction) to Asia.
He's signaled he may approve the Keystone XL
oil pipeline from Alberta's
oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast and may authorize new spending and tax cuts, which could boost Canadian
exports of raw materials and equipment.
It also calls out a new category of
pipeline opponents, «Democrats and Tea Party types» who want to stop the use of eminent domain for
pipelines exporting oil and gas.
Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted
pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for
export on
oil tankers.
To be certain, the opposition to projects like the Keystone XL
pipeline, which would carry Alberta
oil sands products to US markets, and the Northern Gateway
pipeline, which would carry
oil sands products to a new west coast terminal for
export to Pacific markets, has caused delays and increased costs to proponents.
Russia signed a major
oil export deal with China in 2009, agreeing to supply 15 million tonnes per annum through the East Siberia — Pacific Ocean
pipeline.
The discount facing Western Canadian Select
oil prices increased at the end of 2017, following a spill from the TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone
pipeline and has remained high as other
export pipelines are full.
Imagine a twinned Kinder Morgan
pipeline that sends
oil sands crude not to its current Burnaby
export terminal but to one in northwestern Washington instead.
The Iraqi
Oil Ministry and the Iranian Oil Ministry have signed a memorandum of understanding to bury their differences on joint oil fields and build a pipeline to export crude oil from the Kirkuk fields, in the north of Iraq, through Iran, reported the Al Monit
Oil Ministry and the Iranian
Oil Ministry have signed a memorandum of understanding to bury their differences on joint oil fields and build a pipeline to export crude oil from the Kirkuk fields, in the north of Iraq, through Iran, reported the Al Monit
Oil Ministry have signed a memorandum of understanding to bury their differences on joint
oil fields and build a pipeline to export crude oil from the Kirkuk fields, in the north of Iraq, through Iran, reported the Al Monit
oil fields and build a
pipeline to
export crude
oil from the Kirkuk fields, in the north of Iraq, through Iran, reported the Al Monit
oil from the Kirkuk fields, in the north of Iraq, through Iran, reported the Al Monitor.
KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from
oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a
pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude
oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...
Kurdistan's prime minister and top energy official travelled to Baghdad earlier this week, intensifying efforts to settle the long - running dispute over
exports of
oil from the region via a new independent
pipeline to Turkey.
The Kurdistan Regional Government, which runs the land - locked, semiautonomous Kurdish enclave that borders Turkey, says it started pumping crude from its
oil fields directly to Turkey through a newly constructed
pipeline to the
export terminal at Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast in early January.
Despite the expectation that the tide is finally turning for Canada's
oil producers, significant challenges remain, with constrained
pipeline capacity and limited capability to expand
export markets the biggest of them all.
The Alberta government has introduced legislation that would give it the power to restrict the
export of natural gas, crude
oil and refined products as part of its effort to ensure the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion gets built.
to support an expansion of
oil sand
exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL
pipelines.
McKay cites his own recent three - part investigative series for The Energy Mix as «an evidence - based argument that there is no credible business case to support an expansion of
oil sand
exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL
pipelines.
Earlier this morning, news reports citing National
Oil Company (NOC) sources said production had resumed at Sharara, following a three - day blockade of the
pipeline that feeds crude to Zawiya
export terminal.
It is likely these projects will be built, and with them there will be a 13 per cent surplus of
export pipeline capacity, without the Trans Mountain project, when western Canadian
oil production peaks in the 2025 timeframe.
The large increase in crude
oil exports to US PADD III (US Gulf Coast) market was due to new
pipeline capacity.»
Any reduction in
oil sands output from the levels imposed by the emissions cap will create even more surplus
pipeline export capacity without the Trans Mountain project.
Last week, Bill McCaffrey, chief executive of
oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp., said his company is considering such
exports as it becomes easier to move Canadian crude to Houston through expansions of the
pipeline network.
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.
Interestingly, CNPC was bidding against established
oil majors; the company not only cleanly outbid every rival, it also paid the cash strapped Kazakh government a generous bonus upfront and conducted feasibility studies on a
pipeline to Xinjiang, offering the Kazakhs a non-Russian
export line.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including
pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG
exports at Port Ambrose, crude
oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands
oil heater at the Port of Albany.
With the lifting of the
oil export ban, the
pipelines could service New Jersey or other ports with
export facilities, instead of or in addition to the Bayway refinery in New Jersey, which opponents say does not want and could not use anything close to all of the crude
oil Pilgrim might be shipping south from Albany.
From a proposed border tariff that could affect energy imports and
exports, to recent approvals for new
oil pipelines and an early rollback of regulations on coal production, the Trump administration is likely to usher in significant changes in energy policy.