Would the Venezuelan operation affect Alberta's attempt at Independence in any meaningful way? From what I've read, it seems like oil is going to be the primary export of Alberta if they seperate, but now that the US has this colossal amount of new oil, Alberta basing it's economy on it might be a tough idea.
Think about the logistics.
The best answer right now is possibly. Both produce Heavy Crude and require the same refinery in Texas. Alberta has more than double the production at the moment. However, this is with a degraded Venezuelan oil industry that is suffering from decades of mismanagement. So any change will be felt at least a couple years from now.
Not according to rando X user:
I seen some panic online yesterday that Canada and/or Alberta is ruined now because all the leverage in oil is gone now (there never was any). Besides what this guy says (if it's true, it probably is), the dust still hasn't even settled yet for anyone to start making 100% claims about cause and effect. Whether the Venezuelan VP submits or not, there is supposed to be an election, one the generalissos could shoot him in the head, etc. Some people probably have a good idea on the fallout of it all, but no one really knows for certain that CANADA IS DONE NOW.As a heavy oil expert, with 18 patents in heavy oil production technology development and optimizations, and prior experience as a senior technical SME at a supermajor U.S. oil company that Venezuela still owes money to….I wanted to correct some of the misguided takes circulating on X. While Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, those figures do not translate directly into immediate production flow rates or rapid incremental increases, which demand substantial time and investment. With the next budget season not arriving until Q3, U.S. producers are currently committed to ongoing projects and contractual obligations. Venezuela's oil faces uniquely difficult geology, low ultimate recovery rates, and severe infrastructure deficits. From my work alongside Venezuelans who actually operated projects there, many cited rampant corruption and logistical nightmares as reasons they left the country. At current oil prices, the massive capital required for meaningful production growth simply isn't justified—one leading expert and good friend, estimates it would take at least 3 years to double output, adding about 1 million bbl/d… so not by next week….Unlike Canada, Venezuela has zero SAGD projects ZERO !!; any greenfield heavy oil development there would require at least $30,000 per flowing barrel, meaning roughly $1 billion!! for every 30,000 bbl/d increment achievable in perhaps three years. They mainly produce cold production, which is cheaper I’ll admit!! But with slower flow rates and rely on diluents and polymers which are enhanced recoveries ( EOR) that require capital and supply of these chemicals and infrastructure… more money. Finally, people seem to overlook the U.S. Midwest (PADD 2), which already processes around 4 million bbl/d of crude, predominantly from Canada ( see pic specifically on) Venezuela lacks the logistical or practical means to displace that supply. Hope this clarifies things for everyone and helps the understanding of this volatile situation. Thx
Im thinking about the logistics where all Albertan oil workers get laid off and American oil companies take over while retiring the employees at lower wages.
Why retire Canadian workers? They make a fraction of what American workers get. American petroleum workers make serious bank.
So they can be rehired under American companies for lower wages as they wont be American workers.
This is what’s being counted as “population decrease” on our official consensus.
tbh banning ebikes would do more damage to them as a community than ending their visas
There's no rationalizing either; they're both disgusting
This "republic of Alberta" psy-op is Chinese in origin. BC is going to be a Chinese Colony, maybe the States is going to fight them over it, when all their instigation pays off. "Land Back" Natives, "No oil, no mining, except the foreign oil and foreign minerals in my iPhone" Environmentalists, "Separatist" Capitalists, and "Shout Your Abortion" Graduates.
No there's definitely a difference between the two.
You shouldn't vote for them ever because nothing is stopping them from bending the knee to libs again to provide votes.
If they did that I would genuinely wonder if I walked into Bizarro world as their leadership is all jeet
you might see it that way, being a inner circle guy maybe to the cause, but it's not like Jackson Pollack knew that the CIA was getting his paintings on walls, either. Foreign Powers with Foreign Interference prop up unsuspecting True Believers unbeknownst to the Beneficiaries in Adversarial Lands with a kind of pragmatism (or what might look like eclecticism) that Local Powers with Local Interference cannot ideologically afford.
Idiot conspiritards like you, with all your random capitalizations, are all morons.
