Canada’s largest annual oil and gas trade show gets under way Tuesday in conjunction with an industry conference dedicated to heavy oil, which the country has in greater abundance than anywhere else on the planet. Anastasia Vasilakis Organizers estimate more than 60,000 attendees will flock here from around the world to visit nearly 2,000 corporate exhibitors’ booths at the Global Petroleum Show. Separately, some 1,100 participants are expected to register for the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Heavy Oil Conference, a symposium for peer-reviewed technical papers. The focus of both events will be on business and technology innovations in the booming Canadian oil patch, but industry officials will also address an undercurrent of uncertainty about growth choke points. Looming large is opposition from environmentalists to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to connect Alberta’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. Increasing options for shipping out crude—by pipe, rail or barge—and […]