https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-suncor-cenovus-crude-by-rail-1.5205375
Every time you turn around the Alberta oil industry is crying about something else.
Now they are crying about the provincial oil curtailment that was brought in to save their worthless asses from the free market - which was discounting western select
So bring in a big cut in production (like what OPEC is doing now) to create a false shortage and get prices up.
That is your basic supply side economics.
But now there is a shortage of oil by rail. Now that the prices has been falsely set - they want to spool up production and fill every rail car they have (which is lots) and run it down to America.
Except now that the price is so high the Americans are not interested.
Why would they be?
Here is the bafflegab:
Mark Little, the chief executive of Suncor shook his head several times on stage while discussing the issue at an energy conference in Calgary hosted by TD Securities on Tuesday.
"What happened under curtailment [was] literally shutting in market access and idling rail, while the industry is struggling because we don't have market access," he said to the crowd of investors. "It's not working too good."
Roughly, he said there is about 250,000 barrels per day of unused crude by rail capacity in Alberta, so the government should be able to lift the curtailment policy and be able to export all of the extra oil out of the province.
"We're within rounding distance of literally getting all of the production to market with the excess rail that is available and get a fair price for it," Little said.
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lol he has basically said there is no need for a pipeline expansion.
250K bbls?
They are talking 800K more through the TM.
Into a market that doesn't even want that shit unless its at $30 a bbl?
Anyone invested in Alberta oil is a fool with their money.