October 31, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Calgary Herald, October 31, 2019) CALGARY, Alberta — Following months of discussions, the Alberta government will allow petroleum producers to increase their oil output levels above current provincial quotas, under certain conditions. Full story: Calgary...
October 22, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, October 21, 2019) OTTAWA — The Canada Energy Regulator says exports of crude oil by rail from Canada fell slightly in August to 310,000 barrels per day from 313,000 bpd in July. The August number is up 35 per cent from 230,000 bpd reported in...
October 9, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, October 8, 2019) CALGARY — Canadian heavy oil prices have weakened ahead of an anticipated announcement that Alberta will ease production limits in exchange for shipping more crude by rail. Full story: Financial Post
October 7, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: JWN Energy, October 7, 2019) CALGARY, Alberta — The uptick in crude by rail traffic out of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin over the last six months has a clear preferred target: the U.S. Gulf Coast refining cluster. Data from the U.S. Energy Information...
October 3, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: De Smog Blog, October 2, 2019) NEW YORK — While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country’s oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also...
September 30, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Kallanish Energy, September 27, 2019) HOUSTON — Crude oil-by-rail shipments in western Canada increased 12.9% in July, according to new data from the Canada Energy Regulator. July’s volume was more than 9.71 million barrels (Mmbbl), an increase from 8.60...
September 27, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: JWN Energy, September 27, 2019) CALGARY, Alberta — Crude by rail traffic out of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin jumped by more than 25,000 bbls/d in July, reigniting an upward trend that had slowed the previous month. New data from the Canadian Energy...
September 26, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Business In Vancouver, September 25, 2019) VANCOUVER, B.C. — A test shipment of bitumen oil from Alberta is on its way to China, but it didn’t get to a B.C. port by pipeline – it was moved by train through Prince Rupert in a semi-solid form commonly known as...
September 26, 2019 | Canada, CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, September 25, 2019) TORONTO and EDMONTON – A delayed grain crop is causing headaches for railways, elevator operators and farmers following a dry spring and wet summer. Grain carloads at the two major Canadian rail companies are down 11...
September 19, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, September 18, 2019) CALGARY, Alberta — The premier of Canada’s main oil-producing province Alberta said on Wednesday he is hopeful of more progress this month on talks between his government and producers about easing oil curtailments, as long as...
