Heavy Oil Transportation Trivia

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1 Railroads supplied the first major market for Lloydminster Heavy Oil. The product they wanted was ...
Bunker "C" oil
Diesel fuel
Brake fluid
Coal oil

2 The first year that more than 1 million barrels of oil was shipped from Lloydminster via rail roads was ...
1933
1953
1973
1993

3 Today, the major oil product shipped by rail from Lloydminster is ...
Bunker "C"
Diesel fuel
Synthetic crude
Canola oil

4 What is the average speed of crude oil when it travels through a pipeline?
3 km/hr
30 km/hr
300 km/hr
a mile in 2 minutes

5 What is the average pressure inside a pipeline moving crude oil?
14 psi
140 psi
1440 psi
100 kilo pascals

6 When do pipeliners use "pigs"?
at breakfast time
to clean out a pipeline
to search for leaks
to keep the grass down

7 The trucks which carry oil from field storage tanks to a battery or refinery are referred to locally as ...
oil trucks
CVT's (crude vehiculer transports)
road barges
Crude-o's

8 On any given day, over 1000 trucks are moving in our region, hauling the various fluids associated with the drilling, transportation and marketing of oil and its products. About how many liters of fluids do these trucks haul daily?
328
32.8 thousand
328 thousand
32.8 million

9 On any given day, over 1000 trucks are moving in our region, hauling the various fluids associated with the drilling, transportation and marketing of oil and its products. About how many kilometers do these trucks travel daily?
2750 kms
27,500 kms
275,000 kms
2,750,000 kms


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