Sentences with phrase «than oil pipelines»

On his last quarterly call with analysts, Enbridge CEO Al Monaco talked more about offshore wind farm opportunities than oil pipelines by a score of 796 words to 528.

The region's five natural gas pipelines are more explosive than oil pipelines, and — unlike oil — gas has no alternative mode of transport.

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.

Environmental and tribal groups are criticizing an administrative law judge's recommendation that Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline if it follows the existing route rather than the company's preferred route.

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

That's because the new pipelines will connect Alberta's oil to international markets, where they can command higher prices than in North America.

On April 29, more than 28,000 barrels of crude oil sprang from the Rainbow pipeline in Alberta and gushed into the boreal forest and nearby marsh.

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast.

So is scrutiny of ExxonMobil and the U.S. pipeline authority, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): the ruptured pipeline had been installed in the late 1940s, and ran through a densely populated area, yet it was transporting heavy crude, which might be more hazardous than regular oil.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

For comparison, shipping costs for a barrel of oil by pipeline and tanker from Edmonton to China were estimated at less than $ 8 / barrel in the TransMountain Pipeline Expansion application — equivalent to $ 1.36 / GJ.

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 vow came as the Calgary - based company blamed clogged export pipelines for its worst heavy oil price discounts in five years during the first three months of 2018, contributing to a higher - than - expected $ 914 - million net loss in the first quarter.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on pipeline companies working to build out infrastructure within our borders that could move more oil than Keystone.

The pipeline operator has more than 84,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, gasoline, and crude oil in the U.S. and Canada.

Cenovus said sales volumes in the fourth quarter were about seven per cent lower than oilsands production due to the two - week shutdown and subsequent volume constraints on TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline following an oil spill in November in South Dakota.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

But the prime minister may take more of the 180 days allowed to ponder assent of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline than his supporters in the oilpatch expect.

He said regulatory confusion and delays in Canada have prevented the timely completion of pipeline projects such as the Trans Mountain expansion, leading to difficulty in getting crude oil to markets and the current steeper - than - usual discounts being paid for Canadian oilsands crude compared with benchmark New York - traded oil.

To the dismay of proponents in Canada, the Obama administration has lately been sounding cool to Keystone XL — even cooler than it did to TransCanada Corp.'s border - hopping oil pipeline just before it got mothballed a year ago.

Opinions on pipelines are flowing around Canada more quickly than the oil.

In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.

You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is oil — yet the clean energy sector provides more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.

According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, crude oil and more.

Christy Clark and her BC Liberal party collected more than $ 771,000 in campaign donations from the Texas pipeline company and its oil patch backers.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

Bitumen is more corrosive on pipelines and it is more toxic and more difficult to clean up than conventional oil.

Speaking in New York in May, Mr. Harper emphasized that the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to an increase in oil sands shipments by rail, which he called «more environmentally challenging» than pipelines.

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

Above that point it is worth spending the money to dig out the oil and even ship it out by rail, which is more expensive than a pipeline.

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama intends to decide the fate of the Keystone XL oil pipeline during his tenure, rather than suspend the federal review process at the request of the project's sponsor.

It's unclear how oil flowing in a new pipeline, Keystone XL, could get slapped with more onerous treatment than the millions of barrels that already get shipped to the United States on existing lines, such as the initial Keystone conduit and several operated by Enbridge Inc..

But those supply gains will taper off to 2.5 per cent next year and average less than 2 per cent annually through 2030 as pipeline and regulatory hurdles curtail investments in the world's third - largest oil reserves, CAPP said.

One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute State regulators in... Read more»

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.

Kenney called for an emergency session of the Legislature, which under the current circumstances would be not much more than four pro-pipeline parties professing their undying devotion and love for the oil pipeline to Burnaby (just in time for Valentine's Day).

Also the economics of pipeline, much cheaper than rail for oil, make it extremely attractive.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $ 1.8 million after accusing the Canadian oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan.

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.

TransCanada Corp.'s cancellation of the Energy East pipeline leaves Canadian oil producers more dependent than ever on the Keystone XL and Trans Mountain proposals, two projects facing ardent opposition in their own right.

Permian oil priced at Midland, Texas, now trades at a discount of more than $ 11 a barrel to Brent as rising production bumps up against pipeline capacity

If the marginal barrel of bitumen is sold in BC rather than Cushing, from the oil producers» standpoint the pipelines have done their job.

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.