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My brother in law told me that this oil I’d so good that it starts separating into it components during shipment.
Seems like it would be highly coveted for refining.
Exactly on point - people would put up barricades across the rails outside their towns if they had full knowledge of what those CHEM placards mean. I specifically remember having the thought pass through my mind at the moment of the OKC bombing that it was a propane tanker since the Santa Fe main line passed on the east side of downtown. I was at work about 1.5 miles north of downtown.
And yet, we can’t seem to build new pipelines in this country. < smh>
Thanks Obama.
Do you know the economics of building a small refinery to take out the volatiles prior to placing on railway cars?
That is one solution to keep the explosion risk down.
Most of the Bakken crude I saw was over 40 deg API.
All unconventionals have lighter crudes with volatiles as that is simply the only type of crude that can be produced in the tite rock, and a lot of it like in the Eagleford is not crude at all but liquids that existed as gas in the ground.