Crude-By-Rail

Producers in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale play are beginning to come to grips with operating without the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that is now under court order to shut down and be drained by early August. The immediate challenges are how to move up to 300,000 b/d to Gulf Coast refineries, and longer term up…

In a move expected to be supported by the Democratic governor, the Oregon legislature passed a measure before adjourning that requires railroads to submit spill response plans to the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

A “critical” lack of crude oil export capacity from Western Canada has forced Cenovus Energy Inc. to reduce production rates and store excess barrels in its reservoirs, the Calgary-based operator said Thursday.

Now that an increasing amount of crude oil moves by rail — and as these shipments have attracted safety concerns in communities and in Washington, DC — the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has added crude-by-rail data to its monthly petroleum supply reports.