Robert Tuttle

Canadian crude shipments are bypassing a pit stop off the California coast and heading straight to Asia as skyrocketing shipping rates make the detour less economical and the nation’s oil producers look to reduce dependence on the US during an ongoing trade war.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Alberta days before residents of the oil-rich province head to the polls to vote on a referendum to remain in Canada or seek independence.

While the world continues to experience an oil-price surge, Canadian crude producers are failing to get top dollar for their barrels.

Alberta achieved a C$2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) surplus in the fiscal year that ended in March amid a surge in oil prices due to the Iran War.

The Alberta energy watchdog took over an oil and gas firm’s wells and infrastructure on a military base less than two weeks before a major fire killed four soldiers and injured dozens of others.

A Canadian oil producer is pitching a new port on the northern British Columbia coast to ship as much as 250,000 barrels a day of crude, a proposal that requires an exemption to a federal tanker ban.

(Bloomberg) – A Canadian oil producer is pitching a new port on the northern British Columbia coast to ship as much as 250,000 bpd of crude, a proposal that requires an exemption to a federal tanker ban.

Canadian heavy crude is fetching near-record premiums across the Pacific, bolstering the case for the country’s plan to build a new pipeline to its west coast.

ConocoPhillips is set to announce job cuts in Canada’s oil patch on Tuesday, the company said in an email, the second year in a row it is laying off employees.