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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Crude oil which Canada imports provides not only gasoline for automobiles but high grade gasoline for aviation use, and light and heavy fuel oils and lubricating oil essential to the army and navy.
Crude oil transshipment is the primary service for both facilities, which also provide an array of additional services, from storage for clean products to blending and marine services.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Imports include crude oil and energy conversion plant and equipment and exports include coal for international markets and refined liquid fuels for regional markets.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Crude oil is treated with alkali to remove free fatty acids, subjecting it to steam under vacuum to remove odours and flavours and filtering with carbon to decolorize yellow or dark colours.
Crude oil is a flammable liquid varying in color from yellow to dark reddish-brown, has a peculiar heavy odor; specific gravity ranges from 0.
Crude is the term oil technicians use for either integrated unrefined vegetable oils or 100% solvent extracted oil before it moves on to be refined.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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A pipeline delivering crude oil from the Russian oil fields near Irkutsk to the refining centres in the Daqing region has been approved by Russian and Chinese authorities.
The terminal is one of the main outlets for Russian crude and there has been much speculation that Russian oil firms YUKOS and LUKoil want to buy a chunk of the company.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Crude Assays are essential for the identification of physical and chemical properties of a particular oil to provide a basis for valuation and processing.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Crude oil or refined oil tankers after unloading their cargo at the destination port, the oil cargo tanks are filled up with seawater as a ballast to balance the buoyancy of the ships.
Crude oil cargoes from the Middle East to the industrial powerhouses of Japan, the United States and Europe pushed up tonnage carried by sea substantially.
US crude stocks are currently less than one percent, above the level where the government warns there could be localized disruptions at refineries, forcing them to cut gasoline and heating oil supply.
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