January 25, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, January 24, 2019) NEW YORK — Canadian crude-by-rail loadings hit a record 356K bbl/day in the week ended January 11, up from a daily average of 296K bbl/day last month, Bloomberg reports, even as heavy Western Canadian Select’s discount to the U.S....
January 23, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 17, 2019) CALGARY — The CEO of an Indigenous energy company says a project to transform oilsands bitumen into pucks for safer shipping to customers around the world will potentially create needed jobs in northern Alberta while helping...
January 23, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 22, 2019) MONTREAL — Netflix is apologizing to the people of Lac-Megantic after actual footage of the 2013 rail disaster that devastated the town was used in dramas on the streaming service. The company says it had not been aware of...
January 23, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 23, 2019) MONTREAL — An arbitrator says the firing last summer of Thomas Harding, the train engineer involved in the Lac-Megantic rail disaster, was illegal. He won’t be returning to work, but he will get financial compensation....
January 22, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Williston Herald, January 21, 2019) WILLISTON, N.D. — North Dakota is keeping its vapor pressure requirements for conditioned crude oil at 13.7 psi but is changing the frequency and the timing of testing to when companies are more likely to struggle with...
January 18, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Carlsbad Current-Argus, January 17, 2019) CARLSBAD, N.M. — Extraction continues to grow in Permian Basin and southeast New Mexico, bringing more resources to the surface. But products like oil and potash need to get out of the area and to market in increasing...
January 18, 2019 | Headlines, KCS, Oil Train
(Source: S&P Global Platts, January 17, 2019) HOUSTON — Kansas City Southern has received the necessary permits from state regulators to go ahead with a long-planned project to export heavy and light crude as well as refined products from its Port Arthur, Texas,...
January 18, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 17, 2019) NEW YORK — Netflix is refusing to remove from its hit movie Bird Box footage of the rail explosion that killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Que., despite an appeal from the town’s mayor. Full story:...
January 17, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Kallanish Energy, January 17, 2019) NEW YORK — A California county has vetoed a plan to ship Bakken Shale crude oil from North Dakota to central California by rail for refining, Kallanish Energy reports. The Tuesday vote by the Kern County Board of...
January 17, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, January 16, 2019) WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Canadian province of Alberta’s OPEC-style decision to force production cuts is benefiting oil companies with higher prices, but it is also pushing capital elsewhere and threatens to undermine booming...
