Our Services
Crude by Rail
Carrying crude oil by railways is one of the mature means of transportation in Canada and the United States. Through many years of cooperation with CN Rail, CP Rail, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway, API’s rail operation team is providing logistic solutions to customers via rails to transport Canadian crude oil to the Gulf of Mexico, the west coast of Canada and the west coast of the U.S.
Flexitank
API offers door to door natural asphalt transportation services to our Asia customers. Our professional service team can provide integrated services to transport products from the production areas or from the export terminals to the customers designed addresses in Asia.
Meanwhile, our API trademarked Flexitank has received the AAR (American Association of Railroads) approval and is in the middle of the CN Rail’s approval process.
We are confident that, shipping natural asphalt by Flexitank can dramatically streamline the logistic turnover and reduce the operation and storage costs.
Blending and Storage
API operates and manages our storage tank facilities, oil mixing facilities, and terminal facilities, which enable us to provide oil mixing and storage services according to customer’s requirements. At the same time, we offer related services such as the certificate of origin, third-party formal test reports and MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet).
Crude by Pipeline
Canadian crude oil can be transported through pipelines to the Gulf of Mexico and the west coast of Canada. Those pipeline capacities are being controlled by a bidding process in advance. As an experienced bidder in the North American market, API assists clients for the pipeline bidding. Moreover, our professional team can provide customers with logistic solutions with various combination of handover media selection, marine terminal services, shipping services, etc.
CanaPux Bulk
CanaPux is a patented crude oil solidification and transportation technology owned by the Canadian National Railway (CN). It can solidify Canadian crude oil into small pallets for rail and sea transportation in bulk. It substantially saves the transportation and storage costs while enhancing the environmental protection efforts. It is one of the most effective solutions to break the bottleneck of Canadian crude oil transportation. API is the only authorized commercial partner of CN in the Chinese market. We can transport Canadian crude oil in CanaPux solid form to the Chinese market through bulk cargo.
Trading and Marketing
API offers trading and marketing services: Canadian crude oil international trading, local producer marketing and sales optimization, market consulting services, customer long-term hedging services (Financial Hedge), product underwriting, etc.