The company will become the second Alberta-based junior to find “alternative transportation” to move its product to markets on the US Gulf coast. MEG said its 32,000 barrels per day of bitumen will be loaded on to rail cars by mid-2013 and then transported by river barge.
The decision was made to circumvent pipeline bottlenecks in Cushing, Oklahoma, while TransCanada waits on approval for its proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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