Originally Posted by BrandonT
And of that 16% I'm not sure how much is actual oil sands. This requires expensive metal upgrades to refiners' Crude units and I know of only a couple that have in CO, MN, and I think IL and MT. Not the Gulf coast, East coast, or West coast, which you can imagine are the big players.
Here are the 2016 numbers:
Heavy Conventional Oil. (not from Oil Sands) 800,000 bbls per day
Heavy Diluted Bitumen ( Bitumen from Oilsands diluted with condensate, known as " Dillbit" ) 880,00 bbls/ day.
Light Synthetic Crude ( processed from Oil Sands Bitumen) 730,000 bbls per day
Total from Oilsands (including the condensate portion which is normally derived from natural gas production) 1.6 million bbls/day.
Most of it (70 %) goes to the PADD 2 Midwest refining complex. Another 20% goes to the PADD 3 Gulf Coast refining complex.
The 2018 numbers are up by 600,000 bbls/day, which means the Oilsands portion is currently 2.2 million bbls/day.
As soon is the Keystone XL pipeline is complete, this will rise another 800,000 bbls per day, again, mostly Dillbit. Dillbit is known as WCS, Western Canadian Select and competes with Venezuelan and Mexican heavy crudes, both of which are declining in volume.
Hope that helps.
And of that 16% I'm not sure how much is actual oil sands. This requires expensive metal upgrades to refiners' Crude units and I know of only a couple that have in CO, MN, and I think IL and MT. Not the Gulf coast, East coast, or West coast, which you can imagine are the big players.
Here are the 2016 numbers:
Heavy Conventional Oil. (not from Oil Sands) 800,000 bbls per day
Heavy Diluted Bitumen ( Bitumen from Oilsands diluted with condensate, known as " Dillbit" ) 880,00 bbls/ day.
Light Synthetic Crude ( processed from Oil Sands Bitumen) 730,000 bbls per day
Total from Oilsands (including the condensate portion which is normally derived from natural gas production) 1.6 million bbls/day.
Most of it (70 %) goes to the PADD 2 Midwest refining complex. Another 20% goes to the PADD 3 Gulf Coast refining complex.
The 2018 numbers are up by 600,000 bbls/day, which means the Oilsands portion is currently 2.2 million bbls/day.
As soon is the Keystone XL pipeline is complete, this will rise another 800,000 bbls per day, again, mostly Dillbit. Dillbit is known as WCS, Western Canadian Select and competes with Venezuelan and Mexican heavy crudes, both of which are declining in volume.
Hope that helps.
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