Posted on 09/23/2014 1:05:22 PM PDT by thackney
Which crude oil pipeline moving that direction do think has unused capacity? I believe all are running at max. That is why they are trying to build more.
Moving hazardous materials, tends to have hazards.
Reasonable safety cautions need to be followed. Depending on a single engine to keep running to hold the air brakes, while not setting enough hand brakes while parked on a grade above town, combined with only a single person when the train was running, and then have him leave to go sleep, leaving the train without a watcher, was an insane combination.
Maybe they are afraid of another spill like Exxon-Valdez Alaska and the BP Gulf of Mexico...............
Well, I don’t know, but it looks like a sign of probable future development.
A land-locked tank farm for a pipeline.
It might also work well for simply bringing crude across the border from Canada. Build a big loop with the manifold and tanks, and head the empties right back up for a refill.
Liquid pipelines typically have these, at midpoints (in or out) and end points.
But most crude pipelines running from the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Permian towards refineries and major terminals are running at full capacity today.
BP was a drilling rig disaster, not transport. Exxon Valdez was a tanker driven by a boozehound in dangerously shallow waters. While Superior can be treacherous (Edmund Fitzgerald anyone?), it is navigated without incident hundreds of times a day. A spill is always a risk, for sure. But no higher on Superior than anywhere else.
On the other hand, the Green Weenies have a lot of clout in Duluth.
Murphy’s Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.................(sometimes with help)............
One of the problems is the oil fields produce year round while shipping on the Great Lakes has to deal with being shut down for Ice.
Understood. But the same is true of river traffic. The seasonality of the Lake didn’t stop it from being a vital route for iron ore.
Must be why I only found crude terminals on the southern side of the Mississippi, when searching earlier. There may be some more northern but I didn’t find them.
The world of oil is changing. There was a report that the first shipment of western Canadian heavy crude was sent to Quebec by rail and loaded onto a tanker bound for Europe. Some Canadian east coast oil has been sent before but this is the first time for the west and it was shipped across Canada by rail.
Thanks for that info. It was worthy of finding the info and posting as a new thread.
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