New Crude by Rail Facilities Announced

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Four new Crude by Rail facilities have been announced this week so far.

The first was announced by Eighty Eight Oil and will be built at Guernsey, WY. It will feature Truck Docks, Storage Tanks, Pipeline connections to both the Bakken and Niobrara Shale Fields, and with a rail loading loop able to handle 118 cars plus locomotives.

The second was announced by Ceres Global Ag to be located at Northgate, SK just across the border from North Dakota. It will feature two loading loops, one to serve a Shuttle Grain Elevator operated in partnership with Scouler Grain, and the second serving an Oil loading rack with a loop large enough for unit trains. Service will be by BNSF.

The third facility will be built and operated by a partnership of Cogent Energy Solutions LLC and Granite Peak Development LLC. It will be located at Casper, WY and will be served by BNSF.

The fourth facility will be to unload Unit Trains of Oil and will be a partnership of Genesis Energy LLC. with ExxonMobil. It will be located adjacent to ExxonMobile’s Baton Rouge Refinery in Maryland, LA.

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How does the oil generally get from the well to the rail car load-out?

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The post preceding yours says:

“The first was announced by Eighty Eight Oil and will be built at Guernsey, WY. It will feature Truck Docks, Storage Tanks, Pipeline connections to both the Bakken and Niobrara Shale Fields, and with a rail loading loop able to handle 118 cars plus locomotives.”

The pipeline connection to the fields might start with gathering pipelines from the individual well facilities. Otherwise crude is generally hauled from wells in 300 bbl (12,000+ gal) tanker trucks.

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If I may semi-hijack this thread, here is a satellite photograph of the Kern Oil and Refining crude oil unloading facilities being built. Here is an article about it.

Here is another article about unloading facilities planned for another Bakersfield area refinery.

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Here is the facility that they built in Dickinson, ND… It looks like they are expanding, perhaps to better serve customers in the east.