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.
Jiang, who is currently working as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, said he was planning to accompany the group.