People who are adamantly protesting the Northern Gateway pipeline’s tentative approval seem to forget one very important thing. Both the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific Railways are ready to use “unit trains,” similar to the coal trains that rumble along to the Roberts Bank super port, but instead of coal, the trains will be […]
Canadian crude by the numbers, a CAPP report
Production There are 173 billion bbls of proven oil reserves in Canada. The oil sands hold 167 billion bbls . Canadian crude oil production is expected to increase to 6.4 million bpd to 2030. Oil sands production is expected to increase to 4.8 million bpd by 2030. The bitumen upgrading is not likely to increase […]
Comment: Seizing an opportunity
Prior to a recent tour of British Columbia, I thought people in the province were opposed to shipping the product of Canada’s oil sands through their province. But I saw firsthand that the reality is far more complex. The natural inclination for many Albertans is to tell the people of BC about the economic benefits […]
Comment: Do we need a moratorium on oil sands development?
by Alberta School of Business professors Andrew Leach and Branko Boskovic In a comment published in Nature on June 25, Wendy Palen of Simon Fraser University and a series of co-authors argue that a policy should be imposed in North America such that, “no new oil sands projects should move forward unless developments are consistent […]
Comment: Oil sands producers care about health
Canada’s oil sands producers are deeply concerned about suggestions that we don’t take proper protective measures, or that we lack care or concern about our neighbours’ health. These suggestions are troubling to us as citizens, parents and employees. A Royal Society of Canada scientific report found no evidence linking health issues to oil sands development. […]
Decision to ban oil sands shipments may be waste of time
UPDATE: The South Portland city council did decide to block heavy crude exports from its harbor. The result of a campaign by green groups to prevent the flow of oil from Alberta through a pipeline to the port. That doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject and the whole exercise may have been […]
Train car demand
While environmentalists and others are battling new pipelines around North America – the amount of train traffic hauling Alberta crude is on the rise. This may become more of a permanent fixture. An indication of this. One company, Cenovus, has appointed its first ever vice-president of rail operations. So far the Calgary-based company has shipped […]
New diluent line to oil sands up and running
Inter Pipeline has completed a $1.1 billion conduit serving two northern Alberta oil sands projects operated by Cenovus Energy Inc. The new line will deliver as much as 350,000 barrels per day of diluent, an ultra light form of crude oil blended into the tar-like bitumen from the oil sands so it can flow on […]
Al Jazeera interview with Dr. John O’Connor
Al Jazeera did an interview recently with Dr. John O’Connor, considered by many to be the first doctor to speak publicly about a possible connection between the oil sands and people living in the area. That was ten years ago. His findings were not welcomed by Health Canada which accused him of misconduct and leveled […]
Comment: A renewed appeal for Keystone
What’s going on with oil and energy these days? Last week, SNL Financial noted that, “Canada’s crude oil producers are looking to markets other than the U.S. to sell increased output amid delays in pipeline expansions, according to the president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. “In terms of growth potential, Keystone is obviously […]
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