BBC Chartering BBC Queensland underway for Canadian Horizon Oil Sands Project, Bitumount, Alberta March 2014 – The Horizon Oil Sands Project was approved in 2005 and since 2009 the project produces and increases its output of high quality, low-sulphur, sweet synthetic crude oil (SCO). In its ongoing expansion efforts, a new vacuum distillation unit (VDU), a diluents recovery unit (DRU) and a hydrogen sulphide recovery unit (HSU) were ordered to enhance the project’s capabilities. These three major heavy lift units were fabricated in Ciwandan, Indonesia and required shipment to Houston, Texas. Due to existing oversize restrictions on Canadian routes, the HSU column, the VDU and DRU vessel had to be railed to their final destination in Canada from Houston. Other, smaller supplies for the pr

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