Trans Mountain Pipeline, the only pipeline that connects crude oil production areas in Alberta to Canada’s West Coast and the U.S. Pacific Northwest, has started to resume operations after a three-week shutdown. The pipeline closure — the longest in TMP’s 68-year history — began November 14 after major flooding exposed portions of the 300-Mb/d conduit, which also carries some refined products. Fortunately, Trans Mountain did not suffer any severe damage, breaks, or spills, and its operators were able to initiate a phased restart on December 5 at reduced pressures. Full service is expected to be restored soon. So what happens when a primary source of crude oil to five refineries — four in Washington state and one in British Columbia — is removed from service with little notice? In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the impacts.
Spanning 715 miles (1,150 kilometers) across rugged, mountainous terrain in British Columbia, the 300-Mb/d Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP; solid green line in Figure 1) runs from its receipt point in Edmonton, AB, with additional small receipts entering via Kamloops, BC, before reaching the 55-Mb/d Parkland Corp.-owned Burnaby refinery (blue triangle; in Burnaby, BC), or for export from the Westridge docks (yellow star) about 2 miles (3 km) north of the refinery. The pipeline also transports crude oil to four refineries north of Seattle in Washington state through the Sumas export point via the 69-mile (111-km) Trans Mountain Puget Sound Pipeline (pink line). Until the 590-Mb/d Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX, dashed green line) — a new pipeline running roughly parallel to TMP — is completed in late 2022 or early 2023, the original pipeline remains the only one available for the movement of crude oil and refined products to British Columbia and Washington state.
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About the song
“Lost Without You” was written by Kylie Minogue and appears as the 13th track on the Deluxe Edition of Kylie Minogue's 14th studio album, Golden. Produced by Jon Green and Charlie Russel, the song made its first live appearance on Minogue's “Golden Tour” in 2018. Personnel on the record were: Kylie Minogue (lead, backing vocals), Seton Daunt, Samuel Dixon, Jon Green, Kris Houston (guitars), Jesse Frasure, Eg White, (synthesizers), Jon Green, Seton Daunt, Ash Howes, Lindsay Rines, Richard Stannard (keyboards), Samuel Dixon, Jesse Frasure, Jon Green, Steve McEwan, Michael Stockwell (bass), and Tom Meadows, Emre Ramazanoglu (drums).
Golden was recorded in Nashville, London, and Los Angeles during 2017. The album was produced by Ash Howes, Richard Stannard, Sky Adams, Lindsay Rimes, Jesse Frasure, Jon Green, Alex Smith, Mark Taylor, Eg White, Samuel Dixon, Charlie Russel, Seton Daunt, and Kylie Minogue. Released in April 2018, the album went to #4 on the Billboard Independent Albums and #64 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts. In Minogue's native Australia, Golden debuted at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Six singles were released from the LP.
Kylie Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the best-selling female Australian artist of all time, with record sales over 80 million worldwide. Minogue got her professional start in 1979 as a featured player in the Australian soap opera, Neighbours, and debuted as a singer in the late 1980s with the release of four bubblegum dance-pop albums. She has released 15 studio albums, eight live albums, 13 compilation albums, 10 EPs, and 95 singles, and has been featured in seven motion pictures and five television series. Minogue has won one Grammy Award, three Brit Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and 17 ARIA Awards. A member of the ARIA Hall of Fame, she continues to record and tour.
