The case for superior proposals to use existing pipeline rights-of-way to build oil pipelines to ship only conventional crude and upgraded bitumen to refineries on Canada’s East and West Coasts to displace all imported crude for domestic consumption, and for export of refined products, petro-chemicals, conventional crude and upgraded bitumen, is presented here along with a blueprint for a comprehensive 'Canada-First' Canadian Energy Strategy.

The national interests of both Canada and the United States are best served by shipping the bulk of upgraded bitumen and conventional crude to Eastern Canada, the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, and international markets, and the rest to a new West Coast terminal and refinery to meet domestic demand, and for export to California and other international markets, including Asia.

 

Albertans must reverse trends of increases in foreign ownership of oil sands production and of increases in raw bitumen exports in order to extract more than a nominal benefit from the oil sands to balance against the substantial domestic environmental damages and liabilities of the oil sands.

This 48,000-word monograph, available as a  Word-format digital document along with a 216-page, full-colour, Cerlox-bound printed copy, contains 49 maps, 37 charts, 36 tables, 20 figures, and 15 photos.

It contains a wealth of up-to-date information and background on the Canadian bitumen deposits including the nature and quantity of bitumen, its ownership, extraction, processing, upgrading, pipelining, transporting, shipping, refining, adding value, marketing, and exporting.  It addresses the key engineering, economic, environmental, and energy security issues as well as the politics and public opinion surrounding the bitumen sands. And it provides new and original proposals for the efficient, economic, and environmentally-acceptable handling of bitumen from both Canadian and North American perspectives.

It is a valuable reference for industry leaders, potential investors, policy makers, regulators, think tanks, researchers, academics, libraries, NGOs, news organizations, and organizations in the labour and environmental movements, municipal, provincial, state, and federal governments, and hearing adjudicators and intervenors.

It is kept up-to-date with the latest developments.

 

 

 

For samples of the report's content see:

 

Alberta Crude Oil Reserves Largest on Earth on this website or at

 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/ALBERTA-CRUDE-OIL-RESERVES-LARGEST-ON-EARTH/14198987

 

and,

 

Energy East Pipleine to Canso, NS: A Strong Case on this website or at :

 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/ENERGY-EAST-PIPELINE-TO-CANSO-NS-A-STRONG-CASE/14530077

 

 

The Case for Partial Upgrading of Raw Bitumen in Alberta on this website or at;

 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/PARTIAL-UPGRADING-OF-RAW-BITUMEN-IN-ALBERTA/16058487

 

 

 

 

Price

Single-user licence: CAN$2,995 for a printable, digital Word-format version that includes one Cerlox-bound, colour print hard copy.

For further information, contact mpriaro@telus.net.


Mike Priaro, P.Eng.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

403-281-2156

"Mike Priaro, B.Eng.Sc. (Chem. Eng.), U.W.O. '76, P.Eng., current Lifetime Member Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), worked in facilities, production, operations and reservoir engineering, as engineering consultant, area superintendent, and engineering management in Alberta's oil patch for 25 years for companies such as Amoco and PetroCanada.

He increased oil production from the historic Turner Valley oilfield and brought in under-balanced drilling technology to drill out, complete and test several of the highest producing gas wells ever on mainland Canada at Ladyfern.  He co-authored ‘Advanced Fracturing Fluids Improve Well Economics’ in Schlumberger's Oilfield Review and developed the course material for the ‘Advanced Production Engineering’ course at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.”

“Mike has presented his work to Canada’s House Committee on Natural Resources in Ottawa and had work published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in the March and April, 2014 and February, 2015 editions of Inside Policy magazine, by U.S. energy industry websites such as RBN Energy, in the July 17, 2014 edition of the Oil and Gas Journal, and in Petroleum Technology Quarterly, Q3 2014.”

Mike has no formal connection to any oil company, environmental organization, think tank, labour organization, lobbying or special interest group, academia, or to provincial or federal politics.  However, Mike has been recently retained by Alberta Sulphur Research Limited to help promote, prove, develop, and commercialize a new partial upgrading process for bitumen.

Mike is the author of 'A "Canada-First" Canadian Energy Strategy' (see https://www.behance.net/portfolio/editor?project_id=5808629 ) and is available for special projects and speaking engagements."

 

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