Posted on 12/07/2011 12:22:32 PM PST by thackney
Enbridge Energy Partners LP (EEP) will expand its Berthold rail terminal capacity in the Bakken shale by 80,000 b/d and include a rail car loading facility to accommodate the additional volume. EEP has contractual commitments for 70% of the rail loading capacity and anticipates it will soon finalize agreements for the remaining capacity.
The Berthold Rail Project includes construction of a double-loop unit-train facility, crude oil tankage, and other terminal facilities adjacent to its existing facilities near Berthold, ND. The project will have capacity to stage three unit-trains at Berthold at any given time. After an initial 10,000 b/d Phase I start-up in July 2012, the full 80,000 b/d of rail export capacity will enter service in early 2013.
EEP described the $145 million project as complementing its Bakken Expansion Program, integrating gathering pipeline capacity in western North Dakota and eastern Montana with increased North Dakota export capacity.
EEP expects Bakken Expansion, announced August 2010, to add 145,000 b/d of takeaway capacity from the Bakken and Three Forks formations in Montana, North Dakota, and southeast Saskatchewan, 25,000 b/d of which is already available (OGJ Online, Feb. 18, 2011). The company expects the remaining 120,000 b/d to enter service by early 2013, a slight delay from initial predictions of late 2012. The Bakken Expansion will cost roughly $370 million for the US projects and $190 million (Can.) for the Canadian projects.
EEP also announced the $90 million Bakken Access Program in October. Bakken Access involves increasing gathering pipeline capacities, construction of additional storage tanks, and addition of truck access facilities at multiple locations in western North Dakota to supply the Bakken Expansion.
By 1950 pipelines had had replaced rail shipments.
Hopefully Enbridge will upgrade from transportation that was used 80 years ago and use the more modern technology of the pipeline which has only been around for 60 + years. (/s)
TransCanada was willing to build that upgrade, they called it Keystone. However....see my tagline.
I do rail shipments every week.
Some products are not shipped by pipeline.
A little difficult to get 8 Chevy Volts from Minot to Minneapolis through a pipeline I guess.
That thick goo you buy and sell is a little tough on the pumps unless you heat it up.
Some is.
Some (my Ciniza, NM bbl) flows without steaming.
Later
My thick goo is someone else’s mother’s milk, I might add...
Some products are not shipped by pipeline.
I based my reply on thackney's remark of 500,000 bpd by pipeline vs the projected bpd by rail.
I sold a product that could be shipped by either rail or the pipeline/truck combination.
I paid $100 more per rail car because it was more dependable than pipeline/truck.
With some products when push comes to shove rail is by far the best way to go.
That volume would be 1,000 tank cars/day.
A tall order in anyone’s book.
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