Crude-by-rail shipments by oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. jumped to 120,000 barrels per day in January from 106,000 in December.

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Genscape says crude-by-rail shipments from Western Canada continued to rise in May after falling in February to a nine-month low.

Crude-by-rail shipments from Western Canada staged a minor recovery in March after falling in February to their lowest level in nine months, but oil storage levels remain stubbornly high.

The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports in January fell compared with December, but remained more than twice as high as 12 months earlier.

The CEO of MEG Energy Corp. says a one-year delay in Enbridge Inc.'s Line 3 pipeline replacement project makes it highly unlikely it will approve an option to spend about $75 million to complete an expansion of its Christina Lake oilsands project in northern Alberta.

MEG Energy says it has doubled its crude-by-rail shipments and will double them again to maximize prices in view of insufficient pipeline export capacity from Western Canada.

The first increase was on Jan. 30 when Notley announced the province would allow increased production by 75,000 barrels per day.

The Alberta government's decision to spend $3.7 billion to move more crude by rail was made necessary by its poorly considered move to impose production curtailments, executives with Husky Energy charged on Tuesday.

Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Keith Creel said his company "didn't like it at all" when Premier Rachel Notley stepped in to work out a plan on shipping more crude oil via rail.