Sentences with phrase «on oil sands crude»

Assessed using the $ 40 per ton central estimate of the SCC, the carbon charge on oil sands crude would be about $ 4 per barrel higher than the carbon charge on average US crude.

Not exact matches

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Environmentalists argue that the U.S. president needs to take a stand against further development of tar sands oil, which is more carbon - intensive than conventional crude oil, and will put the world on what they call an unsustainable energy path.

(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.

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 CO2 numbers [in the oil sands] sound frightening when only the production and refining are taken into account... Yet once the oil is burned, a variety of sources say the total lifecycle impact of oil sands relative to the average crude used in the U.S. is much smaller, including the Council on Foreign Relations (17 percent higher emissions) and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (5 - 15 percent).»

compared to selected imports, Canadian oil sands crudes range from 9 % to 19 % more emission - intensive than Middle Eastern Sour, 5 % to 13 % more emission - intensive than Mexican Maya, and 2 % to 18 % more emission - intensive than various Venezuelan crudes, on a Well - to - Wheel basis;

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

discounting the final consumption phase of the life - cycle assessment (which can contribute up to 70 % -80 % of Well - to - Wheel emissions), Well - to - Tank (i.e., «production») GHG emissions are, on average, 72 % -111 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

News Articles Featured Nathan Vanderklippe Globe and Mail March 20, 2013 Read the full article on the originating site Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver this week told a Vancouver audience that British Columbians have nothing to fear from Pacific exports of Canadian oil sands crude.

Canada — in the broadest collective sense, in whatever way we are all one — is as fully dug in on the production of oil sands crude as it has been in any of its resource projects.

Perhaps not so ironically, the House vote on Terry's bill happened on the one - year anniversary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan being fouled with 800,000 - plus gallons of heavy crude from oil sands.

Michael Levi, author of a Council on Foreign Relations study of the Canadian oil sands, told the Washington Post that, with the decision, «the Obama administration made clear that it's not going to go about its climate policy in a crude, blunt way».

But environmental groups have mounted a major campaign to derail the project, arguing that approval of a pipeline from Canada's «tar sands» will increase global emissions of greenhouse gases, threaten local water sources and frustrate U.S. efforts to reduce its reliance on crude oil.

«Tar sands crude is the dirtiest oil on the planet.

«The IRS has classified tar sands as different from conventional oil, and thus the tax levied to fill the liability trust fund is not levied on tar sands crude.

The Harper government is lobbying heavily to have President Obama approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry 830,000 barrels per day of oil - sands bitumen to the vast refining complex on the U.S. Gulf and would ease the delivery bottlenecks that have driven down Canadian crude prices.

Because this oil is so different from conventional crude, a coalition led by the National Wildlife Federation is demanding a moratorium on building new tar sands pipelines — including the Keystone XL — until regulators update the rules regarding this type of oil.

Some tar sands producers use on - site upgrading facilities to turn the bitumen into synthetic crude, which is similar to conventional crude oil.

Filed on behalf of 29 environmental and community groups and 36 individuals, the petition includes a list of nine policy recommendations for the safe transport of dilbit, a type of crude oil produced from Canada's oil sands region.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

Today, President Obama is expected to veto a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude oil from Canada's tar sands through the United States to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Experts have predicted a «high risk» of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.