May 8, 2018 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 7, 2018) Murex LLC and Cetane Energy LLC have agreed to a major capacity expansion of a crude-oil transloading facility in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Full story: Progressive Railroading
May 7, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, May 5, 2018) HOUSTON, Texas — Oil producers may be getting in their own way in the race to pump crude from the fertile Permian Basin. Railcars full of sand have helped producers unlock record amounts of crude in the Permian Basin, pushing regional...
May 4, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Oil Price, May 3, 2018) CALGARY — Alberta will discuss shipping more crude oil by rail across province borders with railways companies, Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd told media in Calgary. The talks will begin tomorrow, with executives from the...
May 3, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, May 2, 2018) NEW YORK — The oil industry learned an important lesson from its rush to move by train the highly flammable oil drilled in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale. The lesson wasn’t that those oil trains were unsafe and even dubbed...
May 3, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, May 2, 2018) CALGARY, Alberta — Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta’s energy minister...
May 1, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, May 1, 2018) CALGARY — With no capacity to spare on pipelines out of Alberta, oilpatch leaders are desperately waiting for when they’ll be able to ship more crude on rail lines. Full story: www.cbc.ca
April 30, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Canada, April 27, 2018) VICTORIA, B.C. — In the weeks since Kinder Morgan’s announcement that it was suspending all “non-essential spending” on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline, we’ve seen yet another round of concerns about a spike in the shipping...
April 26, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, April 26, 2018) NEW YORK — Alberta’s beleaguered oil industry may get some relief from its persistent shipping bottlenecks in the second half of the year as producers strike deals with rail companies to move more crude. Full story:...
April 25, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, April 23, 2018) WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred...
April 24, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train, UP
(Source: Texarkana Gazette, April 24, 2018) TEXARKANA — A broken rail on the track may have caused Sunday’s 12-car train derailment, according to a preliminary Union Pacific Railroad investigation. Full story: Texarkana Gazette
