September 25, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, September 25, 2018) NEW YORK — A rail terminal outside of Philadelphia has begun taking deliveries of Bakken crude after going dormant for nearly three years, according to shipping data and a source familiar with operations, as refiners snatch up...
September 25, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Hill, September 24, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration on Monday repealed a mandate that would have required trains carrying crude oil to use special brakes with new technology. The Department of Transportation’s Pipelines and...
September 20, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, September 19, 2018) BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota regulators are considering relaxing rules that require shippers to remove the most volatile gases from oil before it’s loaded onto train cars. Full story: Houston...
September 20, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, September 20, 2018) NEW YORK — Transport Canada on Sept. 19 issued Protective Direction 39, which accelerates phase-out of non-jacketed (no thermal layer of protection) CPC-1232 tank cars for crude oil service as of Nov. 1, 2018, 17 months...
September 19, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Kallanish Energy, September 19, 2018) HAMMERSMITH, UK — Houston-based USD Partners has started expansion work at one of Canada’s largest crude-by-rail loading terminals, Kallanish Energy reports. The project at Hardisty, Alberta, will increase loading...
September 19, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bismarck Tribune, September 18, 2018) BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota oil and gas regulators are considering changes to the state’s oil conditioning order that requires companies to remove the most volatile gases. The rules that took effect in April 2015 aimed...
September 14, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: West Virginia Record, September 14, 2018) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal and state officials accuse CSX Transportation of several environmental torts in response to oil spilled from a derailed train. The United States of America, the state of West Virginia and...
September 14, 2018 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2018) SAN FRANCISCO — Rejecting a 2015 state law, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that California cannot charge railroads a $45-per-car fee for carrying crude oil, gasoline and other hazardous materials into the...
September 13, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, September 12, 2018) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. has moved 50 percent more crude oil by rail during the third quarter to date, compared with the same period a year earlier, and the company sees further growth, CN’s chief financial officer...
September 12, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, September 11, 2018) CALGARY — With the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project stalled, and overall Canadian pipeline capacity limited, the pressure to ship crude oil out of Alberta continues to grow. The amount of oil shipped by rail has been...
