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Originally Posted by tallpilot

That's the primary purpose of the Keystone pipeline, send the heavy sour Canadian tar sand crude to the docks by the refineries so it can be put on ships and sailed to the refineries where it can be best processed. There is some capacity for sour crude refining in Houston but most are setup to crack sweet crude.

Yep, and the other half of the issue is the regulations for commercial sailing between US ports to be done on US registered ships. Meaning the logistics of port to port transfers cause a loss in profits. Which again is why we export our oil.

trying to explain heavy/light and sweet oil chemistry was going to be too much of a task for this board so I’ve just been watching at this point. I don’t even know why I posted in the first place to be honest. For those that like funny moving pictures, and have some curiosity in learning more about it I found a video.

https://youtu.be/veTbuLu7znc?t=563