October 30, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, October 29, 2019) NEW YORK — On October 23, New York Attorney General Letitia James, joined by attorneys general from Maryland, New Jersey, and California, sent a letter of support to the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...
October 30, 2019 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Houston Chronicle, October 29, 2019) HOUSTON — Liquefied natural gas could soon move around the country by rail as the Trump administration moves to loosen restrictions on transporting LNG in an effort to further boost to the nation’s energy sector. The...
October 22, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, October 21, 2019) OTTAWA — The Canada Energy Regulator says exports of crude oil by rail from Canada fell slightly in August to 310,000 barrels per day from 313,000 bpd in July. The August number is up 35 per cent from 230,000 bpd reported in...
October 22, 2019 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, October 21, 2019) NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), announced that it is publishing a notice...
October 9, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, October 8, 2019) CALGARY — Canadian heavy oil prices have weakened ahead of an anticipated announcement that Alberta will ease production limits in exchange for shipping more crude by rail. Full story: Financial Post
October 7, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: JWN Energy, October 7, 2019) CALGARY, Alberta — The uptick in crude by rail traffic out of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin over the last six months has a clear preferred target: the U.S. Gulf Coast refining cluster. Data from the U.S. Energy Information...
October 3, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: De Smog Blog, October 2, 2019) NEW YORK — While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country’s oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also...
October 3, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: S&P Global Platts, October 2, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new Washington state crude-by-rail law has forced Phillips 66 to significantly cut shipments of Bakken crude to its Ferndale Refinery, the refinery’s manager told federal regulators. Full...
September 30, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Kallanish Energy, September 27, 2019) HOUSTON — Crude oil-by-rail shipments in western Canada increased 12.9% in July, according to new data from the Canada Energy Regulator. July’s volume was more than 9.71 million barrels (Mmbbl), an increase from 8.60...
September 27, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Land Line, September 25, 2019) GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. — Attorneys general in 10 states are asking the Trump administration to overturn a new Washington state law regulating the transportation of oil, claiming new oil classifications go against federal law and...
