Sentences with phrase «oil pipeline capacity»

In a post for Medium, Clinton called Canadian oil sands North America's «dirtiest fuel» — despite the fact that during her leadership the U.S. State Department approved a cross-border permit for another oil sands pipeline in 2009, with the department determining that the «addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States.»

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.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

The only options for Canada's oil producers are the Trans Mountain expansion, which will triple the line's existing capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 bpd, taking Alberta to Canada's Pacific Coast and Enbridge's Line 3 expansion to Wisconsin, which will boost the pipeline's capacity and is much more likely to move forward.

Canadian producers had hoped a return to full capacity on the line would help relieve a bottleneck in the oil - rich province of Alberta, where increased output has run up against a shortage of pipeline and rail capacity.

«Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were no additional pipeline projects approved.»

The Trans Mountain expansion almost triples the capacity of the existing pipeline, which is designed to carry crude from Canada's oil sands to the West Coast.

Trump's action, which comes in his fourth full day in office, would be a boon for oil producers concerned about limited pipeline capacity bringing oil to market.

The increase in U.S. oil production since 2006 to 6.5 million bpd has resulted in a sudden pipeline capacity and pricing squeeze that only months ago was predicted to hit years in the future, if at all.

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.

Such optimism must somehow reconcile with all the forces conspiring against Canadian oil: the lack of pipeline infrastructure or «takeaway» capacity, the occasionally gaping price discount applied to Western Canada Select, the renaissance in oil production unfolding in the U.S., rising Canadian production costs and the flight of investor money out of commodities.

According to some estimates, the rising level of pipeline capacity could drop the proportion of oil being upgraded in the province below 50 % by 2019.

The report does envision scenarios in which oil sands development is curbed by a combination of lower oil prices and a lack of pipeline capacity.

Suncor Energy Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd. are accusing Enbridge Inc. of overbuilding pipeline capacity into the U.S. at a time when it's not needed, and are looking to escape the increase in tolls that will come once Alberta Clipper, a major new crude pipeline, enters service later this year.

This also poses a sort of double jeopardy for Alberta's energy sector, whose industrial and political leaders have long maintained that any oil sands supply bottlenecks created by insufficient pipeline capacity would be offset by higher rail traffic.

The current owner of the pipeline, American energy giant Kinder Morgan, recently expanded capacity to 300,000 barrels per day»... to transport growing volumes of product from Alberta's oil sands.»

Lazarus said even though the pipeline's capacity would represent only about one per cent of global oil consumption, that would still be enough to incrementally move markets.

In Alberta, the overwhelming consensus is that it centres on the pipelines themselves and the expansion of Canada's oil producing capacity (77 % say this).

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.

Provincial disputes over plans to expand the capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline could have U.S. consequences, analysis shows.

Growth in Canadian crude oil production has outpaced expansions in pipeline takeaway capacity and, along with past pipeline outages, has driven Canadian crude oil prices lower and increased Canadian crude Continue Reading

Canada's oil sands producers, frustrated by a lack of pipeline capacity, are also turning to trains to ship their products.

(a) whether adequate pipeline capacity exists to maximize the return on crude oil and diluted bitumen produced in Alberta,

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.

The industry has expanded pipeline capacity and found other ways, such as rail cars, to get oil from the middle of the country to major demand centers on the coasts.

The lower relative pricing for Canadian crude is partly caused by pipeline capacity constraints as oil production rises in Canada

A return to full capacity on the line is also expected to help relieve a bottleneck in the oil - producing province of Alberta, where increased output has run up against a shortage of pipeline and rail capacity.

In order to sidestep this pipeline capacity issue, Canadian oil producers have substantially increased transportation by rail, reaching a near high of 106,704 barrels per day in December 2015.

Additionally, tight pipeline capacity has caused an unusually large price discount for its oil, thereby reducing the company's current cash flow.

That is because it was proposed in requests from oil companies to help them reach new markets by expanding the capacity of North America's only pipeline with access to the West Coast of Canada.

That was because it was proposed in requests from oil companies to help them reach new markets by expanding the capacity of North America's only pipeline with access to the West Coast.

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.

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.

Most of the current attention is focused on the lack of adequate pipeline capacity to carry the oil and natural gas to markets.

The new Line 3 will comprise the newest and most advanced pipeline technology — and provide much needed incremental capacity to support Canadian crude oil production growth, and U.S. and Canadian refinery demand.

It isn't that they would transport «oil» by rail (which would actually not be «oil» but «dilbit») if there isn't enough pipeline capacity.

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.

Oil Change International, «Reconsidering the need for new pipeline capacity in Canada» Oil Change International, «Reality check: the end of tar sands growth»

That was because it was proposed in requests form oil companies to help them reach new markets by expanding the capacity of North America's only pipeline with access to the West Coast of Canada.

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.

But in the end, increasing pipeline capacity to get more tar sands oil to market is a clear contradiction to Canada's promises under the Paris Agreement.

Hughes argues that there is enough existing pipeline and rail capacity to handle a 45 per cent ramp up in the oil sands production.

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.

Permian oil priced at Midland, Texas, now trades at a discount of more than $ 11 a barrel to Brent as rising production bumps up against pipeline capacity

Bochis wrote that the pipeline would not increase the amount of oil passing through the region because East Coast refineries are already at capacity.

Reduced oil demand would be nearly six times the pipeline capacity [241], thus the carbon fee is far more effective than the proposed pipeline.

A lack of capacity on this end along with pipelines facing environmental opposition have led California refiners to import oil, often from foreign sources, via ship and pay a higher price for doing it.

Since going public in 1998, Enterprise has grown into one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in the world with approximately 50,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products pipelines and 260 million barrels of storage capacity.