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there are 3 distinct BC refinery proposals for alberta tar sands oil.
in addition to the Kitimat Clean project - written up in a nearby thread - both Pacific Future Energy & Eagle Spirit Energy are competing to obtain the federal license that will give them the right to build a special refinery for alberta heavy oil. The refined product will be shipped to asia from west coast ports kitimat or prince rupert.
1) Pacific Future Energy is backed by Ovide Mercredi, Shawn Attleo, legendary first nation businessman Robert Louie, Stockwell Day, plus technology that will see alberta bitumen processed into "neatbit," a semi-solid form of heavy oil that does not flow, thus making spills from railcars impossible, or so they say.
SNC Lavalin is handling engineering infrastructure for pacific future energy. Capital to support the project is coming from several big overseas oilcos. Chinese, of course, but singapore oil interests are said to be included.
pacific future energy is not particularly forthcoming about its financial partners, so if anyone can add information here i would be grateful.
pacific future will locate its refinery just north of Kitimat.
http://www.pacificfutureenergy.com/
2) the 3rd refinery proposal is coming from Eagle Spirit Energy. This is a large group of first nations along an east/west corridor from alberta to Prince Rupert. Eagle spirit claims that every first nation across whose lands the alberta heavy oil must be transported has given its approval to the project.
financial backing is coming from vancouver's entrepreneurial Aquilini group, owner of the vancouver canucks hockey team.
Eagle Spirit says it's contemplating a refinery east of the Rockies, so that the product to be transported by pipe to prince rupert would be lighter oil, not bitumen.
supporters of Prince Rupert as the export port criticize the deep inland location of Kitimat, with its related dangers of shipping refined oil product to asia through the narrow Douglas channel. Prince Rupert, they like to point out, is located right on the pacific seacoast.
there are 3 distinct BC refinery proposals for alberta tar sands oil.
in addition to the Kitimat Clean project - written up in a nearby thread - both Pacific Future Energy & Eagle Spirit Energy are competing to obtain the federal license that will give them the right to build a special refinery for alberta heavy oil. The refined product will be shipped to asia from west coast ports kitimat or prince rupert.
1) Pacific Future Energy is backed by Ovide Mercredi, Shawn Attleo, legendary first nation businessman Robert Louie, Stockwell Day, plus technology that will see alberta bitumen processed into "neatbit," a semi-solid form of heavy oil that does not flow, thus making spills from railcars impossible, or so they say.
SNC Lavalin is handling engineering infrastructure for pacific future energy. Capital to support the project is coming from several big overseas oilcos. Chinese, of course, but singapore oil interests are said to be included.
pacific future energy is not particularly forthcoming about its financial partners, so if anyone can add information here i would be grateful.
pacific future will locate its refinery just north of Kitimat.
http://www.pacificfutureenergy.com/
2) the 3rd refinery proposal is coming from Eagle Spirit Energy. This is a large group of first nations along an east/west corridor from alberta to Prince Rupert. Eagle spirit claims that every first nation across whose lands the alberta heavy oil must be transported has given its approval to the project.
financial backing is coming from vancouver's entrepreneurial Aquilini group, owner of the vancouver canucks hockey team.
Eagle Spirit says it's contemplating a refinery east of the Rockies, so that the product to be transported by pipe to prince rupert would be lighter oil, not bitumen.
supporters of Prince Rupert as the export port criticize the deep inland location of Kitimat, with its related dangers of shipping refined oil product to asia through the narrow Douglas channel. Prince Rupert, they like to point out, is located right on the pacific seacoast.