Oil or bitumen? When I managed our upgrader project in Ft. Sask the the gvt was pushing hard to disallow bitumen (cheap chitte stuff from oil sands) to be sent south for upgrading and wanted all upgrading to be done in Canada.
while only sorta related to your post....one thing people forget is though we are fracking it out of shale type deposits, the oil coming out of the Bakken is VERY high quality light sweet crude...its pretty well identical to the benchmark West Texas Intermediate....WTI gravity is 40WPI, Bakken oil ranges from 36 to 44WPI....in other words unlike the stuff coming out of the tar sands it is very good chit that requires lil processing.....
