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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- TransCanada Corp on Thursday said it would move ahead with Canada's largest - ever pipeline, expanding the scale of its $ 12 billion plan to ship oil sands crude in the West to refiners on its east coast and beyond as its U.S. - bound Keystone XL line stalls in Washington.

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 →

Not exact matches

Transporting sand, drilling pipe, and crude oil furnished only 4.5 % of UP's volumes at the peak in 2014.

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

While all this sounds reassuring, the State Department also writes elsewhere in the report that «a focused, peer - reviewed study of the potential corrosivity / erosivity of oil - sands derived crude oils relative to other crude oils has not yet been conducted.»

First, I want to look at how the changes not just in oil prices, but also changes in diluent costs, discounts for oil sands crude relative to light crude and, in particular, the fall of the Canadian dollar have changed the outlook for new oil sands projects — for those under construction, and for those currently operating.

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.

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 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.

Stay tuned for updates on this developing story of how Vancouver, the «greenest city in the world,» may quietly become the main tanker route for oil sands crude bound for China.

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.

Murphy has a 5 percent stake in Syncrude Canada Ltd, one of Canada's largest oil sands plants with the capacity to produce 350,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day.

Furthermore, while the company does have another potentially significant growth opportunity on the horizon in its CA$ 20 billion ($ 15 billion) Frontier oil sands mining project, it appears to be a long shot of moving forward considering where crude is these days.

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.

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

The refinery will feature state - of - the - art design, specifically for processing Alberta oil sands heavy crude oil, and engineered to be the cleanest upgrading and refining site in the world.

Conventional crude oil prices are now below $ 50 a barrel, and last week Royal Dutch Shell cited «uncertainties» over pipeline shipments in canceling a $ 2 billion oil - sands project.

Genscape oil analyst Carl Evans said that, even with crude prices below $ 50 (U.S.) a barrel over the past two years, heavy bitumen production in Canada's oil sands region has continued to grow.

After having the project rejected by former president Barack Obama, TransCanada Corp. has re-applied for approval of the Keystone XL line, which would deliver Alberta oil sands crude to refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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.

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.

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.

«Until ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of oil sands are more successful and widespread, the Final SEIS makes clear that, compared to reference crudes, development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,» the EPA states in a letter made public Tuesday.

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-...]

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.

And in the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim officials wrote: «While crude oil shipment downriver is a relatively recent phenomena on the Hudson River, the increasing production of crude in North America because of fracking, and Canadian tar sands, is likely to result in increasing demand to move the crude oil to coastal areas for shipment to refineries.

Since it received permission to increase the amont of oil it transports, Global has also sought to add a crude oil heater that would allow it to bring in thick tar sands.

In Alberta, these large pits of crude oil are trapped within sand, so getting the oil out of the sand is harder.

By linking Canadian fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.

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.

Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to extract more unconventional forms of oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as oil sand, or extremely heavy crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

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.

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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CN is experiencing the greatest weakness in coal, crude oil, and sand for fracking.

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.

This sense of movement mainly applies to the works hanging in the cavernous main room of the exhibition, where one finds 16 large oil paintings encrusted with pebbledash, a crude sort of cement composed of shells and sand that is used for building in Rees's native Wales.

Albany's importance as a link in the energy - production chain is poised to grow under Global Partners» effort to win state permission to handle oil - sands crude and biofuels for shipping over objections of neighbors and environmental groups.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes 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.

It might surprise many viewers that it would take three times the weight equivalent of CO2 in the energy needed just to convert the bitumen in the tar sands into the same amount of conventional crude oil.

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.

As prices for crude oil rise, tar sands - based oil production in the US has become more commercially attractive to both the government and industry.

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.

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.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

The U.S. oil industry is playing the «China card» in urging the American government to quickly approve TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which will deliver oil sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail editorial board, David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the Keystone XL line is needed to connect the Alberta oil sands with refiners who have invested billions of dollar to upgrade their plants so that they can process heavy grades of crude.

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.