Sentences with phrase «sands oil refined»

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As it is currently planned the twin pipeline will carry 525,000 barrels of bitumen a day from the oil sands west to a terminal in Kitimat on the B.C. coast, where it could be shipped to Asian refineries, as well as refined oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing east.

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.»

Since then, China's state owned refining company, Sinopec paid more than $ 4.5 billion for a 9 % stake in Syncrude, the largest oil sand producer in the province.

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

The refinery will feature state - of - the - art design, specifically for processing Alberta oil sands heavy crude oil, and engineered to be the cleanest upgrading and refining site in the world.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

The process of making liquid fuel from the oil sands requires steam injection and and refining, all of which requires energy.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

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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.

Refining tar sands oil in Texas will increase pollution in an area that already boasts elevated levels of cancer due to years of oil refinery pollution.

[Nov. 18, 11:37 p.m. Updated Vaclav Smil, the Canadian resource and risk analyst, has written a potent critique of Obama's move, noting, among other things, «If there would be no oil - sand oil produced in Alberta to feed the XL pipeline and then refined in the United States and the products burned in American vehicles, then the Chinese would generate an additional mass of CO2 equivalent to that prevented burden in less than two weeks.»]

Noticeably unmentioned in the speech was the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.

Designed to carry crude oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

Indeed, Canadian oil sands exports could exceed the refining capacity in the Midwest by 2015, IHS CERA, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass., said in a submission to the State Department.

Rubin tells us the heavy oil from the Tar Sands (or «oil sands» as the industry tries to say) costs more to refine, and gets less on the market — perhaps forty something a barrel, versus the 50 or 60 dollars a barrel we hear quoted as «the price of oil».

As the refining of bitumen from tar sands mines creates particularly dirty fuel, Valero and the other oil companies crawling around northern Alberta aren't happy to see California's Global Warming Solutions Act survive Proposition 23.

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 full - time lobbyists out to block pipelines like Keystone XL are abusing the scientific data, Coane explains, by throwing around the emissions statistics for oil sands production and refining, without taking into account the more meaningful well - to - wheels analysis:

«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).»

The Alberta government has successfully negotiated contracts for two projects that will advance the upgrading and refining of oil sands bitumen to diesel fuel.

The massive pile comes from the Marathon Oil Company's refining of tar sands at its Detroit refinery, and it's been getting a lot of attention over the past few months.

On Tuesday night, hundreds of Delaware residents near the Delaware City Refinery spoke out at a public hearing about the air permit for the facility as it plans to refine tar sands oil.

«The attention should be on the Marathon refinery — that's where the Enbridge pipeline is bringing the tar sands oil for refining here in Detroit,» she said.

According to the technical analysis published by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis in 2007 for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, estimates of full lifecycle GHG for refined product produced from oil sands / heavy oil range 29.4 gCeq / MJ on the low end to 35.9 gCeq / MJ on the high end.

Carbon capture and storage at large upgrading and refining facilities (e.g., the Shell Quest project) could result in significant reductions in oil sands CI.

Obama also addressed what has been perhaps the biggest issue of contention between his administration and climate activists: The pending decision whether to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport larger volumes of oil from Canada's tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.

n the refinery states, we were able to show that there are more toxic metals and elements associated with refining tar sands oil (petcoke became a big issue in Chicago's refinery areas and in Texas» Port Arthur.)

Most oil sands production is now refined in the U.S. Midwest, where a glut of supply has depressed the price that Canadian oil companies receive.

(more information): Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and refining.

Environmentalists mistakenly think that blocking the Keystone pipeline will prevent crude oil, derived from Canada's oil sands, from being extracted and from being conveyed into the U.S. to be refined into gasoline, asphalt, and other products that are important to the transportation and manufacturing sectors.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign - owned oil companies get the profits and North Americans are left cleaning up oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden from extracting and refining the dirty tar sands.

A postscript to our post explaining that the crude oil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezueoil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from VenezueOil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezuela.

Of course even if CSS worked perfectly at the tar sands without evaporating profitability, it would do nothing about the enormous downstream emissions from burning all that refined oil in cars — four times the production emissions.

Extracting bitumen from tar sands — and refining it into products like gasoline — is significantly costlier and more difficult than extracting and refining liquid oil.

Overwhelmingly, experts agree that oil mined from tar sands in Alberta, Canada is far worse for the climate than most of the oil currently produced and sold in the United States, because of the added pollution from extracting, refining, and delivering it.

Smaller, oil sands - only players such as MEG Energy are more vulnerable during a downturn because they don't have the cash cushion of larger companies and don't have refining operations to offset lost revenue from oil and gas sales.

The new impact statement says that extracting, shipping, refining and burning oil from the tar sands produces more climate - altering greenhouse gases than most conventional oil, but less than many of the project's critics claim.

In its report, EPA seemingly compliments the State Department for confirming that Canadian tar sands oil is carbon intensive when compared to other heavy crudes, due to increased emissions associated with extracting and refining it.

In fact, State Department officials recognized that progress in oil sands development has led to Canadian crude oil from oil sands that is «similar in composition and quality to the crude oils currently transported in pipelines in the U.S. and being refined in Gulf Coast refineries.»

Tar sands / oil sands bitumen can be upgraded and refined, but that adds significant costs and requires dedicated facilities.

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.

This latter ranges from massive oil sands projects to transportation to refining to distribution.

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.

In a video message released by TarSandsAction.org, Sen. Sanders said, «Building this pipeline will keep America addicted to oil, and while it might be a good idea for Koch Industries, which supplies and refines large volumes of Canadian tar sands oil, it is a bad deal for our country,» said Sen. Sanders.

Using 10 EROI nuke that produces high quality electricity to produce 3 EROI tar sands that produces oil (that still needs refining into gasoline) would be a major mistake.

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).