Canadian National to move more heavy crude

摘要

Toronto-Canadian National Railway will target to ship over the short term more heavy than lighter barrels from Western Canada to refineries in North America, driven mainly by safety issues, the railroad’s vice president for petroleum and chemicals, James Cairns, said Thursday. Oil sands crude produced in Alberta is less volatile and flammable compared with the lighter conventional crude produced in the Bakken area in Saskatchewan and North Dakota, he said at the CAPP Scotiabank Investment Symposium in Toronto.