Actually, no.  You need to compare apples with apples.  Asia is not paying a premium for bitumen.  From a Financial Post commentary, September 28, 2017: "[Jeff Rubin, a former CIBC economist and one-time oil booster] argues there is no need for Canada to build new pipelines to export bitumen to Asia, because prices there would be lower, not higher, than those obtained in its unique and only North American market."