Pat Harrington
Associate Editor, Oil Markets 
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July 22, 2019 15:45 UTC 
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A surging differential for Western Canada’s benchmark heavy crude has traders and analysts wondering if predictions that tighter sulfur requirements for marine fuel next year will devalue the country’s oil assets are overblown. “Nobody is talking about IMO 2020 anymore,” one trading director at an investment bank in Calgary said. |
Ashok Dutta
Senior Editor, Oil News, North America
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May 25, 2018 05:01 UTC
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Ever since Canada’s Liberal government came to power in late 2015, the 525,000 b/d Northern Gateway and the 1.1 million b/d Energy East pipeline projects fell off the radar, while a final investment decision remains due on the 870,000 b/d Keystone XL pipeline, which received a fresh lease of life after US President Donald Trump resurrected it last year. The clock is now ticking fast for the 590,000 b/d Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, for which developer Kinder Morgan has a set a self-imposed deadline of May 31 on whether to proceed with the estimated $5.6 billion investment. |
Meghan Gordon
Senior writer, oil
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December 5, 2017 20:31 UTC
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US oil pipeline companies were calling their lawyers in Washington last week after regulators said a practice that has apparently become commonplace in the industry violates federal law. The order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission involves marketing affiliates of pipelines that buy space on the parent company’s system and then resell it — sometimes at a lower rate than the published tariff. |
Allen Reed
Associate editor, Canadian crude
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October 14, 2016 18:38 UTC
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The fight to halt construction of the Dakota Access crude pipeline made its way to the US energy capital as dozens of activists marched and chanted through the streets of downtown Houston. |
Robert Perkins
Editor
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September 19, 2016 04:01 UTC
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A recent flurry of progress on pipeline plans and field approvals in East Africa means Kenya is set to become the region’s first oil exporter, beating its land-locked neighbor and regional rival Uganda to the punch. Under a deal struck with Tullow Oil last month, crude flows from Kenya’s north western Lokichar basin to the port of Lamu on the Indian Ocean could begin by the middle of next year. |
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Ashok Dutta
Senior Editor, Oil News, North America
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May 23, 2016 06:12 UTC
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It’s been about three weeks since a wildfire broke out in the heart of Alberta’s oil sands production area in the Athabasca region in Fort McMurray, and it is still raging. Some 1,950 fire fighters, 208 helicopters, 29 air tankers and countless heavy equipment have been relentlessly fighting the “Beast” (as it has been nicknamed by firefighters), which has grown to engulf over 500,000 hectares. |
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Ashok Dutta
Senior Editor, Oil News, North America 
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March 21, 2016 09:24 UTC
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With the current assumption that a crude export pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast is unlikely to ever be built, never has there been a better opportunity for Canada’s provinces to join hands and hasten efforts to open up oil export outlets along the country’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. |
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