‘Reliance buys its first Canadian crude from Trans Mountain pipeline’

Reliance Industries has bought 2 million barrels of Canadian crude from Shell for July delivery, marking the Indian refiner’s first oil purchase from Canada’s new Trans Mountain pipeline, trade sources said.

Reliance joins a growing group of Asian refiners in buying Canadian crude to be exported from the new pipeline which is scheduled to start transporting oil in May. The Canadian government-owned pipeline expansion will nearly triple the flow of crude from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast and open up access to Asia and the U.S. West Coast.