Of course, calling tar - sands pipelines no riskier than
other oil pipelines isn't exactly a huge comfort.
July 27, 2012: B.C. Premier Christy Clark announces her government will not support Northern Gateway or
any other oil pipeline project unless it meets five conditions, including a «fair share»» of revenues for the province.
Steve Horn reports that in addition to expediting the southern leg, Executive Order 13604 also led to the expediting of 48
other oil pipeline projects.
Not exact matches
It's a network of railroads,
oil pipelines, and
other projects that runs northwest from China through Kazakhstan and Russia.
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.
As
pipeline politics came to dominate the North American energy debate, uncertainty over TransCanada's Keystone XL project gave new urgency to
other efforts to expand Canada's
oil market, including Enbridge's Northern Gateway project.
Lewenza recommends buying stocks in integrated companies — those that both produce and refine
oil, so that one part of the business is essentially benefiting from the misfortune of the
other — as well as in
oil transportation, such as
pipeline companies.
The Russian steelmaker is a big employer in the Saskatchewan capital, and has operations in half a dozen
other communities in Western Canada, where it is an important manufacturer of the pipe used in
oil and gas
pipelines.
Days after refusing to issue a permit for the Keystone XL
oil pipeline, U.S. President Barack Obama threw his support behind the
other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing.
The Northern Gateway project consists of two
pipelines (one to ship
oil west, the
other to import lighter
oil products used to dilute
oil sands bitumen) and a marine terminal.
Following the U.S. State Department's decision to postpone a decision on TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL
pipeline, Canadian
pipeline boosters from oilpatch CEOs to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver responded that Canada would have to look to
other markets — namely China — to buy our
oil.
And heavy
oil is the kind of crude U.S. refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, at the
other end of the
pipeline, are geared to process.
The speech to the «
Oil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure — pipelines, in other words — to get Alberta oil to far - flung marke
Oil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure —
pipelines, in
other words — to get Alberta
oil to far - flung marke
oil to far - flung markets.
The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a
pipeline — is more corrosive than
other types of
oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.
The
pipeline or any
other way to bring Western Canadian Crude to Tex refiners would speed up
oil extraction in Alberta and increase world supplies, which would bring down
oil prices for all Americans, by about a dollar a barrel according to Levi.
Since then, the Trans Mountain project has pitted the NDP - led governments in Alberta and British Columbia against each
other after B.C. proposed new
oil spill regulations that would effectively block new
oil pipelines from reaching the West Coast.
But Alberta heavy
oil is sometimes fetching as little as half the world price due to the competition from U.S. - produced shale
oil and a shortage of
pipelines to get the crude to the coasts and
other refining markets.
In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing
other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns
oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.
I have had, over my time at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment, Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major
oil, gas, energy services,
pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many
others speak in my classes.
A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the
pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the
oil would find
other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.
Refinery shutdowns,
pipeline closures and
other consequences of Harvey has sent the Gulf
oil industry into a tailspin while throwing
oil markets into disarray.
This, then, brings us to the very same «chicken and egg» issue that has plagued the Keystone XL
pipeline (KXL) and that has caused energy (and myriad
other) analysts to spill tons of virtual ink over: Are
pipelines such as KXL and NGP simply one form of bringing
oil to market (alongside rail, for example), or do they enable increased production?
This regional market has
pipelines running both in and out of it, and
oil is used by refineries within the region to produce gasoline, diesel fuel and
other products.
After the 2016 election, Russian internet trolls still had work to do, helping gin up opposition to Florida's Sabal Trail and
other U.S. gas and
oil pipelines.
This portion will carry tar sands
oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Cushing, Oklahoma, where
other pipelines will transport it to Gulf of Mexico refineries and ports.
«Conversion of
pipelines to transport heavy
oil and dilbit is technologically feasible and has been proposed in
other parts of Canada,» said Donaldson.
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.
CALGARY — A Saskatchewan mayor whose city's water supply was interrupted for several weeks following a Husky Energy Inc.
oil pipeline leak in July 2016 says he hopes environmental charges announced Monday act as a deterrent for
other pipeline firms.
The discount facing Western Canadian Select
oil prices increased at the end of 2017, following a spill from the TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone
pipeline and has remained high as
other export
pipelines are full.
The specifics associated with Notely's proposed ban have yet to be set out (there is no word on whether
oil will continue to flow to provinces
other than British Columbia), however it is clear that the battle to expand the TransMountain
pipeline is far from over.
Other Master Limited Partnerships that primarily own
pipelines, not
oil and gas resources, have been hit but not nearly as much.
The battle for
pipelines has become a battle for more than just the people involved in the
oil and gas industry in Alberta; it has also become a battle for
other commodity traders such as farmers and everyday Albertans who rely on the transportation of goods.
The company, Canada's No. 2
pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and
other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta
oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion) project would increase climate change.
Given that the
pipeline is anticipated to create about $ 4 billion per year in profits to the Enbridge shareholders and
oil sands producers, these are odious profits that come at the expense of people in
other countries and into the future.
In
other words the cheapest and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the
oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen extraction, and not building more
pipelines.
Albany lawmakers voted late last night to join more than two - dozen
other New York communities in opposing a controversial
oil pipeline linking the Port of Albany to northern New Jersey.
This is likely to be easier for the more commercially attractive parts of the project, such as the port development and the
oil pipeline, than
others, most notably the railway.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has expressed its readiness to partner with Shell Companies in Nigeria by deploying its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to help secure the companies»
oil and gas
pipelines as well as
other critical
oil installations in the Niger Delta.
One
pipeline would transport crude
oil south while the
other pipeline would carry refined products north.
A statement signed by the Director of Naval Information, Commodore Christian Ezekobe said «The raid is in continuation of the Chief of the Naval Staff's strong resolve to stamp out all forms of crude
oil theft,
pipeline vandalism, illegal refineries and
other unwholesome activities that have impacted negatively on the security and economic development of Nigeria.
He said the
pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken
oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that
pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any
other form of
oil transportation.
City lawmakers voted late Monday night to join more than two - dozen
other New York communities in opposing a controversial
oil pipeline linking the Port of Albany to northern New Jersey.
It is the reason that some youths will take to cultism and brigandage instead of studying hard or engaging in decent living; it is the reason that some elements will break
pipelines and
other oil facilities, thus robbing the nation of much - needed resources.
Oil theft, pipeline vandalism Whether oil prices go bullish soon or not, other stakeholders feel that the benefits of the rise will be lost on Nigeria, if the government does not deal decisively with the twin incidence of pipeline vandalism and oil the
Oil theft,
pipeline vandalism Whether
oil prices go bullish soon or not, other stakeholders feel that the benefits of the rise will be lost on Nigeria, if the government does not deal decisively with the twin incidence of pipeline vandalism and oil the
oil prices go bullish soon or not,
other stakeholders feel that the benefits of the rise will be lost on Nigeria, if the government does not deal decisively with the twin incidence of
pipeline vandalism and
oil the
oil theft.
With the lifting of the
oil export ban, the
pipelines could service New Jersey or
other ports with export facilities, instead of or in addition to the Bayway refinery in New Jersey, which opponents say does not want and could not use anything close to all of the crude
oil Pilgrim might be shipping south from Albany.
The Pilrgrim proposal calls for side - by - side
pipelines, each 178 miles long, to run between Albany and Linden, N.Y. Bakken crude
oil would flow from Albany to Linden through one pipe; refined crude products would flow from Linden back to Albany in the
other.
«Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, LLC, has proposed to construct two
pipelines carrying crude
oil and refined petroleum products between Albany, New York and Linden, New Jersey, cutting through the Town of Rosendale and 31
other towns, cities and villages in the Hudson Valley, Catskill Region and Capital District Area,» notes the letter.
The Pilrgrim proposal calls for side - by - side
pipelines, each 178 miles long, to run between Albany and Linden, N.J. Bakken crude
oil would flow from Albany to Linden through one pipe; refined crude products would flow from Linden back to Albany in the
other.
The Niger Delta Avengers emerged, blowing up
pipelines and
other oil facilities.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday vowed deal decisively with
oil and gas
pipelines vandals including
other saboteurs the same way the Nigerian troops are dealing with members of the Boko Haram sect.