HOUSTON—Alberta, Canada’s main oil-producing region, can help alleviate the global oil supply crunch caused by energy disruptions, Alberta energy minister, Sonya Savage, said on Sunday. Alberta has some spare pipeline and rail capacity and can move more oil to the United States, Savage said in Houston ahead of the CERAWeek energy conference by S&P Global. Oil prices in Monday trading in Asia have soared to $128 per barrel, up from about $83 per barrel in January. “We are the solution, not Venezuela and others,” Savage told Reuters, an apparent reference to U.S. sending a delegation to Caracas last week to discuss an easing of U.S. oil sanctions. She also said it was “unconscionable” for any nation to be buying Russian crude oil or refined products in light of its invasion of Ukraine. Oil buyers have been shunning oil cargoes from Russia, one of the world’s largest petroleum exporters. Russia exports …
Alberta Oil Can Be a Solution to US Energy Supply Crunch—Minister
March 7, 2022
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