Decision No. 409-W-2010

October 6, 2010

File No. W9125/P5/10-51

APPLICATION

Husky Oil Operations Ltd. applied, through its representative, for a licence to use the "JASMINE KNUTSEN", a Canadian non-duty paid tanker, to transport approximately 130,000 metric tonnes of crude oil per voyage, for multiple voyages, from the White Rose and/or Terra Nova floating production, storage and offloading units and/or Whiffen Head and/or the Hibernia platform, Newfoundland and Labrador to Whiffen Head, Newfoundland and Labrador and/or Point Tupper and/or Halifax, Nova Scotia and/or Canaport, Saint John, New Brunswick and/or Portland, Maine, United States of America via pipeline to Montréal, Quebec, commencing on or about October 23 and ending on or about April 23, 2011.

ISSUE

Is there a suitable Canadian ship available to perform the activity?

FACTS AND DETERMINATION

Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) staff gave notice of the application to the Canadian marine industry and no Canadian ships were offered. Therefore, the Agency determines that there is no suitable Canadian ship available to perform the activity.

The Agency is providing this determination to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to consider whether to issue the licence. This Decision is not an authority to operate.

Members

• J. Mark MacKeigan