From: The Sand Box
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| This child, who may be Asian but also may be Mexican, is clearly hatching an evil plan. PetroChina is definitely Asian and may or may not be hatching a similarly dastardly scheme with this pipeline. |
TransCanada and Phoenix Energy Holdings (a unit of PetroChina) plan to build the "Grand Rapids Pipeline",
a 500 km (300 mi) pipeline from Fort McMurray to Edmonton. It would
carry 900,000 barrels per day of crude (!!) and 330,000 barrels per day
of diluent. It would cost $3 billion and come online by 2017.
It would be a 50/50 partnership and would be the first big foray of a
Chinese company into Canadian pipelines. PetroChina (which is itself
controlled by CNPC) expects to produce 400,000 barrels a day
from its Dover and MacKay River properties, which it bought Athabasca's
remaining share of in March. Personally, I'll believe 400 thousand
barrel a day SAGD project when I see it - I believe that would make it
the biggest SAGD producer in the province, despite having a couple of
second tier properties. I don't have a lot to base my opinion that
they're second tier properties, except that if they were really as good
as, say, Foster Creek and Christina Lake they'd already be producing,
and Athabasca wouldn't have sold their remaining share in them to go and
diddle around with Hangingstone and others which I believe are less than "slam dunk" properties.
Guess I got a little offtrack from the pipelines there. Anyway, I'm sure
it won't be long until people start complaining about Chinese influence
in the oil patch. Absent a map of the pipeline, I've attached a picture
that embodies all our darkest fears about PetroChina and Chinese
state-owned energy companies in general.
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