Bloomberg The disaster intensified the debate over the safety of transporting oil by train compared to pipelines, which have their own record of spills. Shipments of oil by rail increased 17 times faster than crude production in the U.S. last year as producers ...
Ottawa Citizen The east-bound train operated by Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Rail World Inc., was carrying crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale, the second-largest oil producer in the United States. The train with 72 tanker ...
Marketwire (press release) TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 9, 2013) - Research recently published by the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) focuses on the potential for transportation of crude oil by rail in North America. The research was conducted by ... and more »
Washington Post WASHINGTON — The deadly explosion of a runaway oil train in Canada highlights the risks that come from transporting oil , no matter the method. Spills from rail cars occur more frequently than from pipelines, but tend to be smaller. And pipelines can ...
Reuters HERMON, Maine (Reuters) - Maine has no plans to review shipments of crude through the state on rail lines after a deadly oil train derailment just across the border in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic over the weekend, the state Department of ...
CNBC.com But it is unlikely to slow the momentum of rail shipments of oil in North America, which has grown dramatically from about 100,000 barrels a day in 2010 to about 900,000 barrels a day by the first quarter of this year, according to IHS CERA estimates ...
Bloomberg A Quebec train disaster that killed at least five people and left about 40 missing promises to touch off debate over the safety of shipping crude oil by rai...
National Geographic Shipping in these "unit trains," long lines of black tankers that look like a moving above-ground pipeline, is cheaper than the traditional "manifest train" that is a mix of boxcars, flatbeds, grain hoppers, and coal cars (an operator needs a "manifest ... and more »
National Post Oil traders are gently tapping the brakes on the thriving business of shipping U.S. and Canadian crude oil by rail , industry data showed this week, the first sign of a slowdown after a two-year boom. As price spreads for moving sweet North Dakota or ...
