Not exact matches
And
in energy, high prices for
synthetic crude and liquid natural gas mean producers are generating a lot of extra cash.
It just means we have to upgrade it into
synthetic crude first, which would spur investment and job creation
in Canada.
It bought a small refinery
in Great Falls, Mont., to hedge against a huge spread between bitumen and
synthetic crude oil prices.
Murphy has a 5 percent stake
in Syncrude Canada Ltd, one of Canada's largest oil sands plants with the capacity to produce 350,000 barrels of
synthetic crude oil per day.
State owned Chinese energy companies are not pouring billions of dollars into developing Alberta's oil sands so more
synthetic crude or bitumen can be sent to refineries
in Cushing Oklahoma.
TCPL wished to construct two new pipelines to deliver
synthetic crude from Canadian Natural Resources Limited's Horizon processing plant to a pipeline terminal
in the area close to Fort MacKay.
As such, it's not at all clear that the Province has the right to enact the powers it is attempting to here over refined products, although it clearly does have the broad power to restrict exports
in the case of
crude oil,
synthetic crude oil, and bitumen and other resources.
These excluded products consisted of «manufactured products» (inapplicable
in the present context) and products «resulting from refining
crude oil, refining upgraded heavy
crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a
synthetic equivalent of
crude oil».
After my post last night got me reading Budget 1980 and the National Energy Program, I stumbled upon something completely fascinating: the hated National Energy Program proposed an indexed price for
synthetic crude from oil sands projects which, had it been followed until today, would have been above the Canadian dollar price of WTI
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Synthetic biology could usher
in a new bioeconomy where biomass becomes the primary source of feedstocks for chemicals and materials currently manufactured from
crude oil and natural gas.
The Oil Sands segment includes mining, extracts and transports bitumen from oil sands deposits
in Alberta, Canada, and upgrades the bitumen to produce and market
synthetic crude oil and vacuum gas oil.
Thus as
CRUDE OIL production couldn't increase even
in a high price environment, the condensate, biofuels, and tiny amounts of
synthetics have kept production «increasing».
Source: RAND A new report from RAND concludes that
in 2025,
synthetic crude oil (SCO) produced from oil... Read more →
Upgrade the material
in the oil field, leaving much of the material behind as coke, and pipeline the upgraded material out as
synthetic crude.
The Keystone Pipeline System is a pipeline system to transport
synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands
in northeastern Alberta, Canada to refineries
in Illinois and Oklahoma, and further to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
In addition, the Draft EIS addresses oil in general and as explained earlier, it may not be appropriate to assume this bitumen crude / synthetic crude shares the same characteristics as other oils.&raqu
In addition, the Draft EIS addresses oil
in general and as explained earlier, it may not be appropriate to assume this bitumen crude / synthetic crude shares the same characteristics as other oils.&raqu
in general and as explained earlier, it may not be appropriate to assume this bitumen
crude /
synthetic crude shares the same characteristics as other oils.»
Energy economist Andrew Leach has looked at the economics of refining
in Canada (here, here and here) and claims that producers can make more money by selling raw bitumen than they could by upgrading it to
synthetic crude oil or by refining it into fuel products.
Startup Sapphire Energy, which uses
synthetic biology to make a green
crude out of algae, announced on Monday that it's raising $ 144 million
in a Series C round from investors including agriculture company Monsanto.