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SU, XOM, CVX: China Buys Record Amount of Canadian Oil as Beijing Shuns U.S. Energy Market​

Tipranks - Tipranks - Thu Apr 17, 1:28PM CDT

Chinese refiners are importing record amounts of Canadian crude oil after slashing their purchases of U.S. energy products by 90% amid an ongoing trade war.

Chinese crude oil imports from Canada rose to a record 7.3 million barrels in March of this year and have risen further in April as Beijing feuds with Washington, D.C. in an escalating tit-for-tat trade war. Data from Vortexa, which tracks oil and natural-gas shipments, shows that Chinese imports of U.S. crude oil fell to three million barrels a month from a peak of 29 million barrels in June 2024.

Canada’s oil sector, which is a major driver of the national economy, stands to continue benefitting from Chinese demand given that China is the world’s biggest importer of crude. The expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline that carries crude from the Province of Alberta to the port of Vancouver on the West Coast has only made it easier for China to source Canadian crude.

Cheaper Option

China’s record buying spree from Canada is a positive for domestic oil producers such as Suncor Energy (SU) and Imperial Oil (IMO). However, it looks to be bad news for the leading U.S. oil majors such as ExxonMobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX).

Chinese officials have said in recent weeks that oil sourced from Canada is seen as more attractive and reliable than crude bought from either the U.S. or Russia, two of the world’s biggest energy producers. Canada is currently the world’s fifth largest producer of crude oil, according to industry data.

Canada also benefits from the fact that its oil is comparatively cheap to buy when compared to crude sold from the Middle East and other regions. Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, is currently trading at $66.83 per barrel.

 
这就对了嘛。有钱不赚王八蛋
 
原设计里TMX还有一条往北的分支.
 
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加拿大是世界第4大石油出口国,​

Kpler网站的船舶追踪数据显示,自去年6月跨山输油管道全面投入运营以来,加拿大平均每天向中国出口约20.7万桶石油。相比2023年之前的十年间平均约7000桶/日的产量,这是一个巨大的增长。

同期,美国从该管道进口了约17.3万桶/日。

With U.S. trade war, China now top buyer for Canadian crude on Trans Mountain pipeline

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The Westridge Marine Terminal at the end point of the Trans Mountain Pipeline System in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. A project to triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain Pipeline still has a high value after massive cost overruns to build it, Canada's government spending watchdog concluded. (James MacDonald/Bloomberg)

China has emerged as the top customer for Canadian oil shipped on the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline, ship tracking data showed, as a U.S. trade war has shifted crude flows in the year since the pipeline started operating.

China’s new interest in Canadian oil comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has strained relations between longtime allies Washington and Ottawa. It also reflects the impact of U.S. sanctions on crude from countries like Russia and Venezuela.

Canada is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, but its main oil-producing province of Alberta is landlocked with limited access to tidewater ports. That means the bulk of Canadian oil - about 4 million barrels per day or 90 per cent - is exported to the U.S. via pipelines that run north-south.

The $34 billion (US$24.40 billion) Trans Mountain is Canada’s only east-west oil pipeline, carrying oil to the Pacific Coast where it can be loaded onto tankers for export. The expansion, which began operations on May 1, 2024, tripled the pipeline’s capacity to 890,000 barrels per day and opened opportunities for Canadian oil along the U.S. West Coast and in Asian markets.

While oil is currently exempt from U.S. tariffs, Canada has sought to diversify its exports due to brief U.S. duties on its crude and Trump’s threats to annex the country.

Canada shipped about 207,000 barrels per day (bpd) on average to China since the Trans Mountain expansion ramped up to full operations in June last year, ship tracking data on Kpler showed. That was a huge increase from an average of about 7,000 bpd in the decade to 2023.

The U.S. took about 173,000 bpd from the pipeline in the same period.

China’s top spot as the TMX buyer defies some early expectations that the U.S. would be the biggest buyer of crude shipped via the pipeline, which is owned by the Canadian government.

Many expected its barrels to land on the West Coast versus Asia, which has access to cheaper Russian oil.

However, Trump’s protectionist policies have in recent months made Canada more attractive to Chinese buyers, said Philippe Rheault, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta.

China has also been reluctant to be over-reliant on Russian energy supplies, Rheault said.

“A lot of China’s refineries are also mindful of U.S. sanctions, and so have been trying to diversify away from oil from Venezuela and other places,” he added.

Shifting flows​

In the year since the pipeline’s expansion, Canadian exports of crude to countries other than the U.S. rose nearly 60 per cent to an annual record of about 183,000 bpd in 2024, according to Statistics Canada.

Other nations taking Canadian crude include South Korea, Japan, India, Brunei, and Taiwan, ship tracking data showed.

In recent months, several Canadian politicians have called for new pipelines to coastal export terminals to reduce dependency on the U.S. But regulatory, financial and political hurdles continue to stifle that development.

TMX was about 77 per cent full on average in 2024, according to documents it filed with the Canada Energy Regulator, below the 83 per cent the company forecast, in part due to the high tolls the operator has been charging to make up for cost overruns during construction.

The pipeline is expected to be 84 per cent full this year, and ramp up to 92 per cent in 2027.

Its operator, Trans Mountain Corp, has said it is looking at expansion projects that could add between 200,000 and 300,000 bpd of capacity to the system.

Given China’s increased desire to find new, stable supplies of crude, the bulk of any additional capacity on TMX is likely to go to Asia rather than the U.S. West Coast, said Skip York, chief energy strategist with Turner, Mason & Company.

“I think you’re going to see virtually all of those incremental vessels flow west” for export to China, he said.

(Reporting by Amanda Stephenson in Calgary and Arathy Somasekhar in Houston; Editing by Liz Hampton and David Gregorio)
 
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中国只会讨好美国,只有在与美国不对付的时候,拿加拿大当夜壶用一下,别太哆嗦
 
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