I would say no. I think consolidation, and continuing to seek efficiency gains, has been a huge part of maintaining a viable and competitive refining sector in Canada.
Yes, we have had some issues over the last year or so with diesel shortages from time to time. The diesel market in western Canada is very tight right now; however, that situation is going to ease over the next several years, with new capacity coming on line in a number of upgraders that are scheduled to be built in Canada, and one of the products and outputs from those refineries is going to be distillate or diesel. I think the capacity expansion in western Canada around those new upgraders that are being built is in the order of 200,000 to 300,000 barrels of diesel a day that will become available on stream in Alberta.
I think we're seeing a temporary situation right now, and that's again reflected in that when you build a refinery, it's built around a certain demand profile of percentage of diesel, percentage of gasoline. Our refineries have traditionally been built to emphasize gasoline over diesel. As markets evolve, there is some work you can do in terms of changing that percentage of gasoline to diesel, but the amount you can change that is not unlimited.
So we're seeing market changes, obviously because of industrial development, principally in the oil and gas sector in Alberta. There are higher demands from diesel than we've ever seen before, and that is causing some local tightness in the market, but that tightness is going to ease over time as new capacity comes on line in these new upgraders, which will be producing diesel in addition to synthetic crude.