How oil sands opponents are skipping the facts on pipeline safety to win political points in the Keystone XL debate Shortly after Friday’s incident on the Pegasus line in Mayflower, Arkansas, pipeline opponents held on to a loose assumption: If Pegasus is an oil pipeline and it spilled, then all oil pipelines must spill. Better […]
Top 5 Things You Should Know About Transporting Oil Sands Crude
April 1, 2013 Blog, Issue Alerts
On March 29, an oil pipeline running through Mayflower, Arkansas experienced a leak that resulted in the evacuation of 22 homes and immediate clean up efforts from the pipeline’s operator, ExxonMobil. According to reports, the Pegasus line was carrying Wabasca Heavy crude oil – a blend of crude produced in the Athabasca oil sands region […]
FACT SHEET: Background on Diluted Bitumen (API/AOPL)
April 1, 2013 Uncategorized, Fact Sheets
One of the types of crude oil derived from the Canadian oil sands is bitumen, a heavy, sour oil. Bitumen would not flow through a pipeline efficiently, so it is mixed with diluents to be readied for pipeline transportation as diluted bitumen, or ‘dilbit.’ Diluents are usually natural gas condensate, naphtha or a mix of […]
LETTER: Pipelines safely transport oil sands crudes
September 14, 2012 Blog
The following letter was jointly signed and submitted by the Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, and the American Petroleum Institute in response to a New York Times op-ed by David Sassoon, publisher of InsideClimate News. To the Editor of the New York Times: David Sassoon’s August 21, 2012, Op-Ed Crude, Dirty […]
PRESENTATION: Internal Corrosion Discussion Before the National Academy of Sciences (DNV)
August 17, 2012 Uncategorized
Conclusions on internal pipeline corrosion as presented by Oliver Moghissi, PhD, vice president at Det Norske Veritas (DNV): Internal corrosion in DilBit pipelines is like other crude oil pipelines -Cannot be ignored -Can be managed Existing internal corrosion consensus standards and industry practice are applicable to DilBit pipelines DilBit is unique in terms of public […]
STUDY: Diluted Bitumen-Derived Crude Oil: Relative Pipeline Impacts (Battelle)
August 16, 2012 Uncategorized, Studies
This report evaluated the claim made that dilbit is more corrosive than other crudes. This evaluation was benchmarked against conventional and/or sour crude, and was based on the existing literature on crude and dilbit properties and characteristics, data on pipeline integrity and results of engineering assays of pipe that has been transporting dilbit, with such […]
