Oil-sands crude sails from B.C., sidestepping federal ban
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 loophole in the law passed this summer -- by shipping semi-solid bitumen mined from oil sands on a cargo ship rather than in liquid form on an oil tanker. About 130 barrels of bitumen left Prince Rupert, B.C., on Saturday bound for a refinery in China, according to Cal Broder, founder of both companies and chairman of BFH Corp. He declined to name the cargo’s buyer.
“What this demonstration was for was to show we can meet all regulatory requirements” for shipping out of Prince Rupert, Broder said by phone Wednesday.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/oil-sands-crude-sails-from-b-c-sidestepping-federal-ban-1.1322511
= new reply since forum marked as read
