The cargo of 466,000 barrels of oil left from Vancouver on Oct. 1 and arrived 10 days later in Nikisi, Alaska
The cargo of 466,000 barrels of oil left on a tanker from Vancouver on Oct. 1 and arrived 10 days later in Nikisi, Alaska, according to the Vortexa tanker-tracking service. That’s the first such shipment in U.S. Customs data stretching back to 2014. The cargo went to the Marathon Kenai refinery, Vortexa analyst Rohit Rathod said in an email.
The expanded Trans Mountain pipeline — which carries crude from Canada’s oil sands to a port near Vancouver — began operation earlier this year, bringing the line’s capacity up to almost 900,000 barrels a day and increasing exports to refineries on the U.S. West Coast and in Asia. Tankers have since left Vancouver for China, South Korea, Brunei and India, among other locations.
With assistance from Lucia Kassai