Consequences of the Keystone XL Pipeline shutdown. It’ll be happening with more frequency, from now on.
I thought all the old RR tankers were removed from service...
This particular train has zero to do with keystone. The RR line that runs through Cameron is not carrying oil from Canada to the Texas City area refineries. That line comes town east of Dallas and through East Texas it’s a BNSF line. This train was carrying good ole fashion South Texas oil as is evident by the volatility of the oil as well. This oil was from the Eagle.Ford Shale play that’s not far from Cameron Texas. Eagle.Ford oils are light oils with a high API and also a high amount of gas condensate which makes it extremely volatile. Canadian oil is naturally nearly would at room temps it much thicker than honey and cannot explode in this fashion. It’s so thick that it must be diluted with naptha before loading into rail cars but even diluted it’s still API 15_20 no where near the API 40+ of sweet West or south Texas crude. I have drilled probably 300 Eagle Ford shale wells as an ops geo the oil looks like diesel coming out it’s straw colored not black and then enough to run in a diesel as is from the ground in a lot of areas especially down dip towards the Gulf.