December 7, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, December 6, 2018) OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is willing to consider helping Alberta Premier Rachel Notley fund the purchase of rail cars to increase the volume of oil her province can ship to international markets. Full story:...
December 6, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, December 5, 2018) VANCOUVER — Alberta’s decision to mandate output cuts to reduce a supply glut will have negative effects on North American producers of lighter oil used for blending and U.S. refiners importing crude via rail, even as several major...
December 5, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: NorthJersey.com, November 30, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — For several years, millions of gallons of crude oil a week have traveled New Jersey’s rail network on their way to Northeast refineries. Full story: www.northjersey.com
December 4, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, December 2, 2018) OTTAWA — An internal Transport Canada document warns of the safety risks posed by exhausted crew members on trains, even as Alberta pursues a plan to ratchet up already-booming shipments of oil-by-rail. Federal work rules in the...
November 28, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, November 26, 2018) MEXICO CITY — The incoming Mexican government said on Monday that a weekend public consultation vote had approved 10 major policy proposals ranging from a new rail line connecting states in eastern Mexico and a new oil refinery in...
November 27, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, November 21, 2018) CALGARY — The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada rose to a record 269,829 barrels per day in September. That’s up more than 17 per cent from 229,544 in August and just over double the 134,132...
November 27, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Common Dreams, November 24, 2018) TORONTO — The crash of that runaway train, with 72 cars carrying almost 10,000 tons of highly combustible oil, was rooted in dozens of decisions by Canadian political leaders that reduced Ottawa’s role in overseeing rail...
November 26, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Huffington Post Canada, November 21, 2018) OTTAWA — According to Statistics Canada, the volume of oil on Canada’s railroads has soared by 64.6 per cent in just the past year. And in the past seven years, the number of rail cars carrying oil across...
November 21, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, November 21, 2018) NEW YORK — While the U.S. oil industry has hit a speed bump with the recent $20 drop in oil prices in New York, producers in Canada are in a full-blown crisis. Heavy Canadian crude has been on a downward spiral since mid-May,...
November 20, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, November 19, 2018) NEW YORK — Canada’s largest railroad recently filed a patent for CanaPux™, a pellet-like product that wraps tar sands extract bitumen in a layer of polymer for transportation by rail. It can be handled like dry bulk...
