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Enbridge has devised a way to ship more oil sands crude from Alberta to the US via its Alberta Clipper pipeline without getting further tangled in the type of review that has kept TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal mired in limbo for years: switching crude from one pipeline in its... Read more →

Not exact matches

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.

Despite the layoffs and poor performance in its first quarter, Suncor, Canada's largest oil sands producer, continues pumping out crude, outputting 602,400 barrels per day during the first quarter — up 10 % from the same period last year.

Although the Keystone XL would transport a small amount of conventional crude oil from North Dakota, the bulk of its contents would be bitumen, a particularly thick oil from Canada's oil sands region.

The report also counters warnings from environmentalists that the pipeline's construction would spur a huge increase in production from western Canada's tar sands, believed to be one of the biggest reserves of crude oil outside Saudi Arabia — unleashing torrents of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Every few days, tankers freshly laden with crude from Alberta's oil sands squeeze through the shallow Second Narrows channel in Burrard Inlet, make their way through swift currents in the southern Gulf Islands and on towards offshore markets.

Recovering crude from the oil sands is a massively capital - intensive business and there aren't enough deep - pocketed Canadian companies capable of making the necessary investments.

Meanwhile, Canada has already served notice that it will intensify efforts to find different markets for oil sands crude — notably China, which could be served with a new pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

«Extraction from the Canadian oil sands continues to grow and with crude oil prices back above $ 70 (U.S.) a barrel, new greenfield projects and previously shelved expansions are once again starting to become viable,» wrote senior currency strategist Matthew Strauss.

SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.

Earlier this year, for instance, Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for bitumen from the oil sands, traded at nearly half the price of Brent crude.

Canadian crude — extracted from Alberta's controversial oil sands patch — is the cheapest oil in the world.

Refiners don't particularly want tar sands oil, which is tougher to make into usable transportation fuel, so it sells for about $ 20 to $ 30 less per barrel than crude from Texas or the Dakotas.

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.

In a world of falling prices, however, it will be high cost production from shale formations and the oil sands, not the low cost conventional crude from places such as Saudi Arabia and Iran that will be hit the hardest.

There is nothing new about transporting this form of crude oil — and after nearly half a century, there is no evidence that internal corrosion is caused by transporting oil from the Canadian oil sands.

We've been transporting crude oil produced from Canada's oil sands region since 1968.

The Canadian province, which holds the world's third - largest crude reserves, is reviewing renewable - energy policies as exports from its oil sands face increasing opposition from environmental groups and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe.

After my post last night got me reading Budget 1980 and the National Energy Program, I stumbled upon something completely fascinating: the hated National Energy Program proposed an indexed price for synthetic crude from oil sands projects which, had it been followed until today, would have been above the Canadian dollar price of WTI in -LSB-...]

After 18 months of pressure from environmental and community groups, state officials have reversed an earlier position, and will now require a full environmental review of a crude - heating facility that would allow tar sands oil to be shipped down the Hudson River.

It recommends prioritized research on the chemistry, properties and spill behavior of various types of crude oil, from oil sands bitumen, to diluted bitumen, to other unconventional oils.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

The United States has become deeply reliant on extreme extraction from Canada's tar sands, which this year are expected to become this country's top source of imported crude, surpassing our purchases from the vast oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

The proposal is the latest in a series of planned pipelines and expansion projects as a flood of crude from the oil sands and the Bakken shale oil field stretches existing networks.

Kerry's testimony came on the heels of a loud call by more than half the Senate demanding the Obama administration quickly approve the Keystone XL pipeline project that would ship about 700,000 barrels of crude daily from Canada's oil sands to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.

It would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Canadian tar sands to refineries near Houston.

We think that the crude oil production has already peaked in 2006, but we expect oil to come from the natural gas liquids, the type of liquid we have through the production of gas, and also a bit from the oil sands.

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Enbridge has leading regional infrastructure in the Alberta oil sands and the Bakken area and a leading crude oil pipeline from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Midwest.

Bitumen is the very crude oil extracted from Canada's enormous deposits of oil sands.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

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that aimed to spin away some of the criticism they have been facing in the aftermath of this spill, including claiming that the oil is conventional crude, not tar sands oil and that they are not benefiting from the Oil Liability Trust Fund loophole that exempts tar sands ooil is conventional crude, not tar sands oil and that they are not benefiting from the Oil Liability Trust Fund loophole that exempts tar sands ooil and that they are not benefiting from the Oil Liability Trust Fund loophole that exempts tar sands oOil Liability Trust Fund loophole that exempts tar sands oiloil.

This was first brought to light by Oil Change International (and soon echoed by Ryan Koronowski on Climate Progress and then by Carol Linnitt on DeSmog Canada), all of whom explained the bizarre technicality that exempts dilbit (or diluted bitumen, the transportable form of tar sands crude) from the taxes that fund the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

Designed to carry crude oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fuoil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust FuOil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline that would bring crude oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States.

Murray Edwards, the billionaire vice-chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., said that with oil sands production expected to expand from 1.5 million barrels a day to as much as 4 million barrels in the next 25 years, Alberta oil is much more likely to flow into the U.S. - even if overall U.S. crude demand continues to stagnate.

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO2 emissions (ranging between 5.4 % to 9.3 %) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon... Read more →

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries.

But bitumen and diluted bitumen aren't actually a kind of crude oil (the IRS actually relieves tar sands streams from some taxes for this very reason), they're a different beast altogether, as the spill responders at the Kalamazoo River learned the hard way.

When the boundary for measuring GHG emissions is placed around crude production and processing facilities, for fuels produced solely from Canadian oil sands the average well - to - wheels (WTW) life - cycle GHG emissions... Read more →

The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogoil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogoil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands DialogOil Sands Dialogue.

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 more →

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.

Oil sands growth will drive Canadian crude oil production to about 4.7 million barrels per day by 2025 from 2.8 million bpd in 2010 — a 67 % increase — according to the latest forecast from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPOil sands growth will drive Canadian crude oil production to about 4.7 million barrels per day by 2025 from 2.8 million bpd in 2010 — a 67 % increase — according to the latest forecast from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPoil production to about 4.7 million barrels per day by 2025 from 2.8 million bpd in 2010 — a 67 % increase — according to the latest forecast from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).

The multi-billion dollar refinery, which processes tar sands imported from Alberta, Canada, into crude oil, is located in Southwest Detroit bordering the neighboring communities of River Rouge, and Melvindale.

Keystone XL is a proposed oil pipeline owned by TransCanada that would carry toxic tar sands crude oil from deposits in Alberta, Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver 700,000 barrels of Canadian crude to U.S. markets a day, isn't based in Saskatchewan (though economic spin - offs from the oil sands bring jobs and help fund social services across the entire country).