The always excellent EIA’s This Week in Petroleum covers crude imports from Canada here…
“Crude oil production in Canada increased to 3.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2017, up approximately 300,000 b/d from 2016. However, crude oil pipeline capacity out of Canada has failed to keep pace with growing production. Several pipeline projects, some to the United States and others across Canada to its Atlantic and Pacific Coasts for export, have either been canceled or significantly delayed. Additionally, the 590,000 b/d Keystone pipeline is currently limited to 80% of capacity since a leak in November.
Because of these conditions, volumes of Canadian crude oil exported to the United States by rail increased between 2016 and 2017. In December 2017, U.S. imports of Canadian crude oil by rail set a monthly record of 203,000 b/d, nearly matching domestic intra-U.S. crude oil by rail movements of 240,000 b/d for the same month (Figure 1). While U.S. crude oil by rail imports from Canada fell to 129,000 b/d in January 2018, volumes remain slightly higher year-over-year.”
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