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Trans Mountain Pipeline Back To Normal Operations After Two-Month Disruption

The Trans Mountain oil pipeline returned to normal operating pressure during the weekend, following a month and a half of operations at reduced capacity after the infrastructure was shut for 21 days as a precaution during rainstorms in British Columbia in mid-November.

Trans Mountain Pipeline, the only operating system carrying crude oil to Canada’s West Coast, is back to operations at normal pressures, the operator said this weekend.

Trans Mountain was shut down as a precaution during the heavy rains and flooding in British Columbia and Washington state in the U.S. in the middle of November. Since the restart, which took place on December 5, Trans Mountain had been operating at reduced capacity. 

Now the infrastructure is back to operations at full pressure, after the Canada Energy Regulator accepted Trans Mountain’s plan for return to normal operations, the pipeline’s operator said.

Due to the shutdown of the 300,000-barrels-per-day pipeline in November, British Columbia enforced a fuel rationing regime in late November and early December.

The pipeline shut down amid massive floods in British Columbia. Work on the pipeline expansion was suspended because of rainstorms, which prompted the evacuation of thousands of people amid heavy rains, flooding, and the danger of landslides.

The Trans Mountain pipeline is a vital piece of oil infrastructure, shipping crude oil from Alberta west and to U.S. refiners. It is the only pipeline that carries oil from Alberta to the West Coast and has become the subject of a fierce debate between the oil province and British Columbia because of the expansion plans that would significantly increase its capacity.

Trans Mountain is currently owned by the federal government of Canada. The Trans Mountain Expansion Project – strongly opposed by British Columbia – is expected to provide western Canadian crude oil producers with an additional 590,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil transportation capacity and tidewater access.

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  • DoRight Deikins on January 18 2022 said:
    « The extended shutdown will put an additional burden on B.C. drivers in terms of fuel supply, Global News reported, citing oil analyst Dan McTeague from Canadians for Affordable Energy as saying that “Best-case scenario, we’re not going to see anything until the first, second week of December and possibly into Christmas before everything gets back into what we consider normal.” »

    Mr. McTeague missed the date of return to normal by almost a month. And I missed that this was happening. I assume that their refineries had to buy oil on the spot market or shut way back and import refined products. Anyone know what the price of gasoline has been this last month in BC?

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