The chain reaction fireballs that attended the Feb. 16, 2015 derailment of a CSX unit oil train in populated West Virginia probably blinded observers to the significance of the concurrent derailment ...

Due to continued shortage of oil pipelines to take Canada’s oil to markets, Canadian producers plan to remove diluents from their oil sands production so they can load more of the heavy oil onto ...

Let us divide the Kinder Morgan pipeline issue into two components, climate change and getting bitumen from Alberta to tidewater. If we put aside climate change, we should certainly do our part to ...

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A growing share of Canadian oil-by-rail traffic is made up of tough-to-ignite undiluted heavy crude and raw bitumen, say industry executives, as companies scramble to cut ...

Re: “Diluted bitumen won’t sink: Enbridge,” Feb. 7. An Enbridge technical report states that the diluted bitumen would have a density of 1.01 and so would float on undiluted seawater with a density of ...

There's nothing quite like a train derailment in the middle of a Friday-morning rush hour to remind Winnipeg motorists there are worse potential traffic hazards in this city than springtime potholes.

Initially thought of as a stopgap for transporting North American crude oil production until new pipelines could be built, the relatively short time needed to recover capital costs of rail ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Candian producer MEG Energy MEG.TO plans to build a C$75 million unit to extract diluent from heavy crude oil in Bruderheim, Alberta, enabling the company to ship ...

When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced obligatory production cuts of 325,000 bpd in December in a bid to tackle a deep discount between Western Canadian Select and West Texas Intermediate, the ...

A Canadian law barring oil tankers from the northern coast of British Columbia hasn’t stopped crude from setting sail there. Two Calgary-based companies, Melius Energy and BitCrude, are exploiting a ...