But that's far from the only controversial crude oil project TransCanada has been working on while Keystone XL has made its way through Congress.
He also made several "day one" promises, such as securing the border to curb illegal immigration, rescinding a nuclear agreement with Iran and authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline – the long-in-development crude oil project that has been maligned by environmental activists.
Nelson said the judicial system was also being used to clamp down on indigenous leaders to prevent them from protesting against crude oil projects where they lived.
For example, on June 17th, Venezuela announced it has secured a $5 billion loan from China for crude oil projects, that comes on top of the more than $46 billion loaned by Beijing to Caracas over the past decade.
A big part of Cruder's project is not only to observe the changes we are experiencing, but to bring awareness back to ourselves.
"Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed project, is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude at refineries in the United States," the review said.
And, indeed, the new report reads: "Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, remains unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands, or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States".
The Venezuelan government and Exxon both sought to portray themselves as victors in the arbitration, which stemmed from the 2007 nationalization of a heavy crude oil production project in the Orinoco Belt, considered one of the world's richest potential petroleum reserves.
Oman Tank Terminal Co (OTTCO) has selected Amec Foster Wheeler for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of the Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park Project in Oman.
In November 1991, a submarine landslide occurred during the preliminary pile sinking process of the 200,000 ton-scale crude oil terminal project of China Sinopec at Aoshan, Xingzhong, having caused collapse of many pile foundations and generated a 2-3 m tsunami (Hu and Ye [2006]).
