Sentences with phrase «pipeline access»

The combined effect of this uncertainty overhang — from global trade tensions to domestic debt growth to tax law changes to interprovincial disputes over east - west pipeline access — has weighed on Canadian investment activity.

By comparison, the average discount paid for Western Canadian Select oilsands blend crude from Alberta in the fourth quarter was US$ 12.26 per barrel and it has since spiked at times to around US$ 30 per barrel, a trend also blamed on constrained pipeline access.

Analysts at Calgary - based AltaCorp Capital Inc. said in a report published Monday that poor pipeline access has hurt Canadian energy companies to the extent that their stock prices have underperformed U.S. companies since the downturn of 2008 - 09.

Due to the conversion of some Midwestern refineries to heavy grades and improving pipeline access to heavy - grade refineries on the Gulf Coast, prices for these coarser crudes could in fact be on the way up.

«We have existing pipeline access to accommodate all of our oil sands production.»

Suncor isn't in immediate need of any new pipeline access, with long - term commitments on existing systems for all of its oilsands volumes, including from the new Fort Hills mine when it is at full rates later this year, Williams said.

It's still there, it's still a possibility,» Williams said, but added that Canada needs to improve its competitiveness in terms of not only pipeline access but also tax rates, royalties, regulatory hurdles and «a general belief in the investment community that Canada is not a good place to spend money.»

When Statoil announced its postponed project, the company cited «limited pipeline access» as a factor.

Government and industry enthusiasm for tidewater pipeline access arose from a large premium that existed between international and North American oil prices between 2011 and 2014 due to a pipeline bottleneck in the US caused by a rapid increase in US oil production.

The United States is currently Canada's sole customer for crude exports, and proponents of greater pipeline access say it's crucial for Canada to diversify its markets to boost its product price.

Futures contracts, traded under the symbol CL, represent 1,000 barrels of oil for delivery at any pipeline or storage facility in Cushing, Oklahoma with pipeline access to TEPPCO, Cushing storage or Equilon Pipeline Company LLC Cushing storage.

And similarly «regeneration schemes should be sited adjacent to industrial clusters, refineries, and existing chemical sites with hydrogen, CO2 and heat grid pipeline access».

The combined effect of this uncertainty overhang — from global trade tensions to domestic debt growth to tax law changes to interprovincial disputes over east - west pipeline access — has weighed on Canadian investment activity.

The message he left with Trudeau was that pipeline access must be assured if the industry is to attract the capital it needs to grow, Steve Williams said on a conference call on Wednesday.