Wall Street Journal OTTAWA--Canadian transportation safety investigators said Wednesday the oil carried in rail cars that derailed in a small Quebec town in early July was more hazardous than indicated, helping explain why the accident sparked a massive explosion that led ...
Bloomberg California's refiners received a record amount of crude by rail in the second quarter, more than tripling the volume from a year earlier, as shipments from Colorado, North Dakota and other states grew. California brought in 748,802 barrels of oil by ...
CBC.ca Oil producers and refineries are in the midst of a transition to shipping their oil by rail , and that means the Keystone XL pipeline is not needed, a report...
Wall Street Journal OTTAWA—The oil carried on railcars that derailed, exploded and killed 47 people in a small Quebec town this summer was a more-flammable liquid than...
Energy Collective Crude oil , especially light crudes like those produced from the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales, is flammable, and thus constitutes hazardous cargo. However, railroads routinely carry a wide variety of flammable and otherwise hazardous materials ... and more »
FuelFix Skip York, principal analyst in oils research at Wood Mackenzie in Houston, said the lack of available pipeline to move crude out of new oil fields means that the product must move by rail instead. “As long as I have more volume than pipeline capacity ... and more »
Akron Beacon Journal (blog) FRAZEYSBURG – July 26, 2013 – Ohio Oil Gathering, a subsidiary of Crosstex Energy, L.P. (NASDAQ: XTEX), recently celebrated the reactivation of the company's Black Run rail terminal by hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 17, 2013 at the Ohio Oil ...
Washington Post (blog) The proposal by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is intended to fix a dangerous design flaw in a rail car commonly use...
UPI.com OTTAWA, July 23 (UPI) -- Environmental activists in Canada say federal relief efforts regarding an oil train derailment in Quebec do little to allay public safety concerns. The Canadian government said it would provide more than $60 million to help ...
