Why does Canada not refine oil?

Most of Canada’s domestic oil production happens in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). This is due to higher transportation costs, limited pipeline access to western Canadian domestic oil, and the inability of refineries to process WCSB heavy crude oil.

What were the 3 products of refining oil?

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.

What are the four stages of refining crude oil?

Refining end-products The primary end-products produced in petroleum refining may be grouped into four categories: light distillates, middle distillates, heavy distillates and others.

Can the Irving refinery refine bitumen?

Irving and Valero do not,” says Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International (OCI) in the US. Irving, which has equipment to process small amounts bitumen, is investing in a $300 million marine terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick to export oil from the proposed Energy East pipeline.

Where does the US get its oil?

The top five source countries of U.S. gross petroleum imports in 2020 were Canada, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Colombia.

Where is naphtha used?

The main uses of petroleum naphtha fall into the general areas of (i) precursor to gasoline and other liquid fuels, (ii) solvents (diluents) for paints, (iii) dry-cleaning solvents, (iv) solvents for cutback asphalts, (v) solvents in rubber industry, and (vi) solvents for industrial extraction processes.

Why are refineries needed?

Petroleum refineries change crude oil into petroleum products for use as fuels for transportation, heating, paving roads, and generating electricity and as feedstocks for making chemicals. Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products.