(BOE Report) – CALGARY – Nearly six months after its opening, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is boosting Canada’s energy sector as promised — but questions still linger about who will pay for the project’s massive cost overruns. By a variety of measures, the expensive and contentious pipeline project is bearing fruit as more Canadian oil reaches the West Coast
Oil Price China, Japan and South Korea are set to receive cargoes of oil imports from Canada’s newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline in September, becoming the first Asian countries to benefit from the facility since it became operational in May. The expanded TMX pipeline will triple the flow of crude from landlocked Alberta to Canada’s Pacific coast to 890,000 barrels per day
BOE Report About 20 ships loaded crude oil on Canada’s West Coast in the first full month of operation on the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline, according to vessel-tracking data on Sunday, slightly below the operator’s forecast. Loadings from the pipeline expansion are closely watched because the Canadian government wants to sell the $24.84 billion (C$34 billion) line. Questions about
Oil Price Oil companies planning to ship crude on the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada are concerned that the project may not begin full service on May 1 but they would be nevertheless obligated to pay tolls from that date. In a letter to the Canada Energy Regulator (CER), Suncor Energy and other shippers including BP and Marathon Petroleum
Oil Price The Trans Mountain expansion project may be in for yet another delay as the company in charge of it reported encountering “technical issues” during construction. In a statement, the company said that the issues “will result in additional time to determine the safest and most prudent actions for minimizing further delay.” The expanded pipeline was scheduled to begin operation
Oil Price The Canada Energy Regulator is hearing arguments on Friday from Trans Mountain Corporation on why it should allow a change in the route and diameter of a small section of the pipeline. The company has warned that without that change it could face a worst-case scenario of a delay of two years in the completion of the pipeline. The expanded
BOE Report The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) approved a route change request for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion on Monday, clearing a major hurdle and avoiding months of delay for the Canadian government-owned project. Trans Mountain Corp (TMC), the federal government corporation that is building the expansion, had sought a route deviation on a 1.3-kilometre (0.8 mile) section of
Oil Price Canada’s federal government has guaranteed loans of $2.23 billion (C$3 billion) to the corporation building the Trans Mountain expansion project to triple the capacity of oil flows from Alberta to the Canadian Pacific Coast. The Trans Mountain Expansion project has been dragging on for years and faces environmental opposition and rising construction costs. Fierce opposition in British
BIC Magazine The Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain oil pipeline is expected to cost C$12.6 billion ($9.47 billion) to expand, a sharp increase from the previous estimate of C$7.4 billion, the pipeline company’s chief executive said on Friday. Trans Mountain Corporation CEO Ian Anderson said the increase was due to court and regulatory delays, rising costs of steel, land, labor and
Reuters WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Prospects for expanding pipelines to move Canadian oil to markets have brightened, but plenty of hurdles remain for the Canadian sector, which has struggled for years with low prices and a glut in storage due to long project delays. Two of three major proposals – TC Energy Corp’s Keystone XL and the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain
Reuters WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA – In 35 years of working in Alberta’s oil patch, home to the world’s third-largest crude reserves, Ray Mildenberger endured a volatile industry’s ups and downs without being laid off. That changed in October, when Mildenberger, 60, and five co-workers of an oil service company in Grande Prairie, Alberta, lost their jobs. Mildenberger turned to selling truck
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