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The spill was caused by rain then damaging the pipes in the Rainbow Pipeline system, owned by Plains Midstream Canada, a unit of Plains All American Pipeline. It was the largest oil spill in Alberta in 36 years. [1] [2] The local school was closed following the oil spill due to concerns about the effects of fumes. [3]
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. is a master limited partnership engaged in pipeline transport, marketing, and storage of liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum in the United States and Canada. Plains owns interests in 18,370 miles (29,560 km) of pipelines, storage capacity for about 75 million barrels of crude oil, 28 million barrels of NGLs ...
Trans Mountain Pipeline enters use as the first pipeline to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific. [3] [17] November 1959 National Energy Board created to organize interprovincial energy infrastructure. [18] [better source needed] 1965 Rainbow Lake oil field discovered by Banff Oil Company. [3] [19] 1973
In 2016, however, the pipeline capacity was estimated at 3.9 million b/d, [1] and in 2017 the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) estimated the pipeline capacity to be 3.3 million b/d. [54] The lack of available pipeline capacity for petroleum forces oil producers to look to alternative transport methods, such as rail.
The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada. With the pipeline operating, Peabody pumped an average of 3 million gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer every day. [3]
HDPE pipeline on a mine site in Australia. A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than 2,175,000 miles (3,500,000 km) of pipeline in 120 countries around the world. [1]
Husky Oil headquarters in Calgary. Husky Energy Inc. was a Canadian company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It operated in Western and Atlantic Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, with upstream and downstream business segments.
These two locations, although more than 200 miles (320 km) apart, are considered one operation. They are directly connected by a 200-mile pipeline (320 km). [1] The refinery is owned and operated by Phillips 66, a downstream company with midstream and chemical businesses spun off from ConocoPhillips in 2012.