Pressure is mounting inside and outside Washington, DC, for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to order the retrofit or phase-out DOT-111 tank cars that are used to transport crude oil and ethanol by rail. Proponents of the effort note that a number of the tank cars involved in the fiery crash of tanker cars carrying Bakken crude in Quebec earlier this month were DOT-111 cars.
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Pad Drilling Half of U.S. Market, Says Halliburton
Almost half of the drilling in the U.S. onshore now is being done on multi-well pads, further moving attention from the rig and well count and more to horizontal footage drilled and the number of fractured stages per well, Halliburton Co. CEO Dave Lesar said Monday.
July 23, 2013
Transportation Notes
Southern California Gas lost 75 MMcf/d of injection capacity at its Playa del Rey storage field due to a retrofit of station injection piping. The restriction, which adds no impact to one that began late last week, is expected to last through March 28.
March 10, 2011
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