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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...