Oil transportation from the Canadian market remains dependent in part on rail transport because of insufficient pipeline capacity, a federal report said. Canada last year was the fourth largest producer of oil and natural gas liquid in the world. Crude oil production in 2015 was 3.9 million barrels per day and most of that was shipped either to western provinces or to the United States through pipelines. An annual report from the National Energy Board said export capacity is constricted because pipeline capacity hasn’t kept pace with production. “Crude oil transportation by rail has been required to supplement pipelines in moving growing oil supply to market,” the report said. Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau issued a directive in July that puts the phase-out […]