Sentences with phrase «process heavy grades»

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.

Moreover, many of them are designed to process heavy grades from Venezuela.

In the suit, won on appeal, the groups claimed that the expansion would allow the company to process heavier grades of oil, increasing emissions and endangering the health of people.

Not exact matches

But a majority of Americans, Republican lawmakers and construction union members welcomed the prospect of boosting reliance on a firm U.S. ally for new supplies of the heavy crude, which would be shipped by a pipeline built largely in this country and processed at Gulf Coast refineries uniquely capable of dealing with the low - grade oil.

It argues that the Gulf Coast refiners invested heavily in processing capacity in order to benefit from price discounts on lower - cost heavier - grade crudes.