Tuesday, December 4, 2012 to Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Portland, ME
In cooperation with Maine DEP and U.S. EPA Region 1.
FINAL REPORT on this training is available. Please contact Kathy to request a copy.
MEETING GOALS:
- Oil sands mining and refining process
- Required specifications and the chemical composition of oil sands
- Potential behavior and fate of oil sands when spilled in the marine environment
- Case studies of oil sands and related product spills
Oil Sands Products Training: Informational Overview
Agenda
Participants, By invitation only.
PRESENTATIONS
- Background and Goals (Nancy Kinner, Center for Spills in the Environment)
- Oil Sands Overview and Natural Resource Development (Randy Mikula, Kalium Research)
- Characteristics of Oil Sands Products (Heather Dettman, Natural Resources Canada)
- Transportation of Oil Sands Products (William Fairfield, Canadian Pacific)
- Fate, Behavior & Modeling of Spilled Oil Sands Products (Freshwater and Marine Environments) (Bruce Hollebone, Environment Canada)
- Enbridge/Kalamazoo Case Study including Response Technologies for Oil Sands Products (Lori Muller, US EPA, Reg 5)
- Assessing Natural Resource Impacts from the Enbridge Pipeline Spill into the Kalamazoo River (Jessica Winter, NOAA ORR, ARD)
- Transportation of Oil by Rail in Maine & Resources at Risk(Ginger McMullin, Maine DEP)
MEETING RESOURCES:
- Effects of Diluted Bitumen on Crude Oil Transmission Pipelines, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board
- MSDS for Dilbit (Cenovus) or Dilbit Imperial MSDS (MSDSxchange) or Imperial Oil Dilbit (CEAA)
- MSDS for Synbit
- MSDS for Bakken crude
- MSDS Heavy crude diluent mix
- Presentation on CRW condensate specifications (per Heather Dettman) [pdf]
- Data sheets for the OSPs that Environment Canada have measured:
- Synbit
- CRW condensate specification (this is one of the majors diluents used to make dilbit)
- The Environment Canada Oil Properties Database
- US EPA's Response to the Enbridge Oil Spill
RESOURCES ( in random order):
- North Dakota's Bakken Oil Finally Hits the East Coast 2/6/2013
- Enbridge Inc Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Rupture & Release 7/25/2010
- Oil Spill Intelligence Report Vol 35 No 29 (pdf) 7/5/2012
- Workshop: Response to Liquid Asphalt Releases in Aquatic Environments (2009)
- CRRC's Submerged Oil Working Group & resources
- Canadian oil producers look east (TalkRail.CA)
- The Dilbit Disaster: inside the biggest oil spill you've never heard of (6/26/2012)
- Map of Maine Railroad Lines
- Oil Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: Background and Selected Environmental Issues
- EPA Worries Dilbit Pipeline Spill Still Threatens Kalamazoo River
- Crude Monitor
- Athabasca oil sands or Athabasca tar sands are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil (definition)
- Oil Sands - Environmental Issues
- Canada's Oil Sands: Opportunities & Challenges to 2015 (May 2004)
- TRB Committee on Transportation of Hazardous Materials (AT040)
- Maine Freight System - 2012
- Crude from the Midwest begins traversing Maine (Portland Press Herald)
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Freight Railroad Backgrounds
Lodging
Clarion Hotel, Airport (Mention meeting block "OIL SANDS" for $74 per night rate)
1230 Congress St
Portland, ME 04102
(207) 774.5611
University of Southern Maine, Abromson Center
88 Bedford St, Portland ME 04104
(207) 780.5900
Questions? Please contact kathy.mandsager@unh.edu (603) 862-1545
