Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #1

 

This use of county sheriff departments is a pattern in East Texas, where TransCanada is building the Keystone XL pipeline to carry more dilbit, tar sands oil, to Gulf coast refineries.  In Texas the deputies under the control of TransCanada used pepper spray, physical violence, and forms of torture on protestors before arresting most of them.   There have been no reported arrests in Arkansas. 

What's the Difference between Wabasca Heavy Crude and Tar Sands Oil?

 

Little or nothing.  

 

If there's any significant difference, it's not widely known yet.  It all comes from the same wide region of Canada, it's all bitumen, and it all has to be diluted to be moved by pipeline.  What's in the pipeline is all diluted bitumen, or dilbit. 

 

It's hard to find out what the dilutants (or diluents) are, which is probably important. 

  

Where Does Wabasca Heavy Crude Oil come from? 

 

Wabasca Heavy comes from the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada.  It moves primarily via Pembina and Rainbow pipelines to Edmonton and on to the pipeline nexus in Hardisty.  From there it is distributed to destinations in Canada and the U.S. 

 

One route takes Wabasca Heavy through the existing Keystone pipeline to Patoka, Illinois.  There it transfers to ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline which takes it to Nederland, Texas, by way of Mayflower, Arkansas, about 25 miles north of Little Rock. 

 

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