900,000 BPD from Venezuela by sea to any country
Venezuela's oil exports rose slightly to some 921,000 barrels per day (bpd) in November, the third-highest monthly average so far this year, as the country used more diluents to produce exportable grades, according to shipping data and documents.
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4,100,000 BPD from Alberta in October
3,500,000 BPD exported from Alberta, primarily to the US
800,000 BPD shipped by sea from Burnaby but mosy of that is still going to the US.
Alternate buyers for the Burnaby oil are China, India, South Korea, Japan and some small quantities to Europe.
LNG is pricing itself out of the market and countries are stepping back from climate concerns tomorrow in favour of cheap energy today.
Climate concerns forced coal to the bottom of the market. China benefited from cheap coal and no environmental laws to worry about.
BC and Australia benefited from supplying coal to China at cut rate prices.
India and Indonesia have also been big coal consumers.
Coincidentally China, India and Indonesia have benefited from a modern steam powered industrial revolutin while Europe retired.
LNG makes no economic sense because it makes no thermodynamic sense.
Our world operates at STP - Standard Temperature and Pressure - one Atmosphere and Room Temperature - 1 Bar and 25C.
At STP Natural Gas is a gas, Oil is a liquid and Coal is a solid.
Drop a chunk of coal on the ground and itstays there. It doesn't move.
Oil needs to be contained but a simple bucket will get the job done. All the better if it has a lid to stop the oil evaporating and the dust and water out.
Natural Gas needs an airtight container.
Everything gets transported in containers and the critical factor is the size of the container. Not mass so much as the volume.
Stipulating a standard container of a 1 m3 tote that can be managed by a forklift.
A 1 m3 tote of Natural Gas at STP can supply 35 to 40 MJ of energy.
The same tote filled with WCS Oil can supply 43,000 MJ of energy
Filled with BC Coal that tote can supply 26,000 to 31,000 MJ of energy dependiing on how big the chunks of coal are.
Those packing differences are the reason ffor the popularity of oil and why natural gas was flared off as a waste when it couldn't be used locally.
Alberta is a great place to use Natural Gas because we are sitting on top of it and it naturally seeps to the surface in any event.
Shipping it to Japan takes energy to transport it and the heavy container to contain it and the insulation to keep it cool and the refrigeration plant. it also requires energy to compress and cool the gas in the first place and more energy to build the machinery and high containers and pipes to make all this happen.
Coal is easier to handle than oil but it takes up more space. For the price of a lid on your tote, a lid you need to control dust in any case, you can deliver a full m3 of energy and not 60 to 70% of one.
If the climate crisis is behind us....
Then oil will become the preferred means of moving energy over distances and especially over oceans.
Coal will sell at a relative discount based on bulk density
Natural Gas will be used locally where available or replaced by Methane generated from imported oil and coal.
Add some local end of pipe carbon capture to feed greenhouses and make graphite and you have a cleaner, and steady, supply of energy.
And there is still the promise of Uranium and Thorium and Small Modular Reactors.
The village is a useful scalar.
A city can be seen as a conglomeration of villages.
If a village can be seen as sharing a common hearth with one chimney then that village can share the power and the heat generated by that hearth, use it to incinerate their waste, afford the cost of harvesting their ashes and flue gases and selling them as raw materials.
The US has lots of Carbon and while Venezuela is a great carbon source I don't think that Donald really needs it. He may want it but I suspect his interest is more Monrovian than commercial. He just doesn't want competitors in his backyard.
