Sentences with phrase «oil via pipelines»

Following the recent disaster in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, in which a train carrying oil derailed and exploded killing 50 people rekindled the debate over whether we should be shipping oil via pipelines or rail.

The spill and its aftermath has not just shaken an Arkansas town, but has also sparked continued debate over the controversial tar sands oil and how transporting this oil via pipelines puts communities and the climate at risk.

Not exact matches

In April 2018, PDC entered into a firm oil transportation agreement with Tallgrass Energy to transport 12,500 gross operated Wattenberg barrels per day via pipeline to Cushing, OK and area refineries.

Different estimates have put the chance of accidents moving oil via rail at between three and 34 times that of pipeline transport.

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.

Russia is the world's largest producer of oil and gas, delivering its products to nations across the globe via a series of pipelines.

At this stage, we are of the view that the pipeline will be allowed to return to full operating pressure by the end of the second quarter of 2018, allowing additional heavy oil flows of up to 100,000 bbls / d to reach the U.S. Midwest market and the U.S. Gulf Coast market via TransCanada's affiliated Marketlink pipeline.»

For example, much of Libya's oil is extracted in Cyrenaica and brought via pipelines to the Sirte Basin, while the majority of Libya's groundwater comes from aquifers in southern Cyrenaica but is consumed in the populous areas of Western Tripolitania.

The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude oil between Albany and the New Jersey refineries) requesting approval as lead agency in the environmental review required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.

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.

In fact, TransCanada announced late on Tuesday that oil delivered to the U.S. via the Keystone pipeline is estimated to suffer an 85 % reduction until the end of November because of last week's leaks.

The refineries built along the coast of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi process the crude oil and natural gas produced offshore which are shipped to the mainland via pipelines.

Currently they are in conflict — U.S. foreign policy is focused on increasing global use of oil and gas via pipeline deals — Nabucco, Baku - Tiblisi, Chad - Cameroon, etc — all of which have large support from the US State Department and client agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.

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 →

One of the issues in the production of unconventional hydrocarbons such as Canadian oil sands or heavy oils is their inability to be transported via pipeline due to low API gravity, high viscosity or high pour point.

It is hard for most Americans to understand how it is contrary to the national interest to create 20,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, increase US gross domestic product by an estimated $ 350 billion, and bring 830,000 barrels of oil per day via pipeline from friend and neighbor Canada to Texas refineries.

Saudi Arabia surely doesn't want us to build that pipeline either, since it means our oil — shipped via pipeline to a deep - water port in B.C. — will finally be able to compete with the Saudis» conflict oil in export markets worldwide.

Without significant other policy intervention, it would simply be cost - effective to import other oil, via our existing pipeline network, to satisfy our demand at the higher prices.

The worst pipeline runs from Wall St. to Capitol Hill, via K St.. It gushes money, not oil.

While crude oil is traded globally via tankers and pipelines, natural gas trading remains primarily isolated within the US and Canada and lacks the infrastructure to be a true global commodity.

In 1998, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed an agreement to build an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea across Georgia and Turkey to western markets; this pipeline would go from Baku (in Azerbaijan) via Tbilisi (in Georgia) to Ceyhan (in Turkey).

In 2000, 286 million barrels of oil were transported via the pipeline, which actually consists of two parallel pipelines, the first line 986 kilometers long and the second 890 kilometers.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of CO2 via ships or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted oil and gas fields and deep saline formations.

With so much of this oil crossing the United States via pipeline and rail, there is considerable risk of spills and it is not right that they are able to avoid these oil spill liability trust fund fees.

In the last few years, companies and governments have made efforts to eliminate flaring and reclaim the wasted energy — by re-injecting it into the ground to bolster oil production, transporting it to new markets via pipelines, using it onsite for electricity generation or by converting it into LNG for shipment.

But when it comes to the safety regulations for how these oils are transported via pipeline, they should be regulated differently, considering that tar sands oil is more corrosive and harder to cleanup.

One of the arguments used by supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline is that pipelines are safer than transporting the oil via the rail roads, as is currently being done.

Currently, the pipeline Kinder Morgan bought in 2005 - the Trans Mountain Pipeline - is the only way oil from the tar sands is getting to export markets via the Pacific coast.