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Comment: Pick your choice for crude transport – pipeline, train, truck or ship

August 11, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Crude oil is moving around the world, around North America, around pristine wilderness, around our cities and towns. It’s going to keep moving, so what is the safest way to move it? The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat (Oilprice.com). But that’s only for human death and property […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Association of American Railroads, barrels, Canada, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, Congressional Research Service, contaminated, crude oil, energy boom, gallons, Keystone XL, Lac-Megantic, North America, oil, oil spill, pipeline, Quebec, rail accidents, rail cars, ship, spill, tanker, The Fraser Institute, Trucking, United States

Amazing technology

July 30, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

This is the Dockwise Vanguard heavy marine transport vessel, and it is a marvel. It is 275 meters long, 70 feet wide, and can carry a total of 117,000 metric tons (that’s almost 258 million pounds). That is enough to carry an offshore oil platform, which is impressive in and of itself, but it’s how […]

Filed Under: International Tagged With: dockwise, dockwise vanguard, heavy marine transport, offshore oil, oil rig, semi-submersible, ship, shipping, vanguard

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