Coronavirus Impedes Alberta’s Drive to Reach Oil Markets in Asia
- Outbreak prompts energy group to scrap plans to visit China
- Canadian oil companies want to raise exports to East Asia
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The coronavirus is hampering the Canadian oil industry’s efforts to build relations with crude buyers in Asia.
A group of “energy-related” business executives were planning a trip to China in the middle of February, but those plans had to be scrapped due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, Wenran Jiang, director of the Canada-China Energy & Environment Forum, said in an interview.