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Two more BNSF-served unit train facilities planned to support crude oil business
2013-02-06
As the crude oil business continues to boom, more unit-train origination facilities are being planned - and the oil companies continue to look to BNSF serve them.
The latest facilities, now in the planning stages, will be at Guernsey and Casper, Wyo.
The week of Jan. 28, Eighty-Eight Oil, a private crude oil marketing and logistics company, announced plans to construct and operate a unit train facility on the main line near Guernsey. This facility will be a rail transloading terminal capable of loading multiple crude types, including those from the Williston Basin (Bakken Shale), the Powder River Basin (Niobrara Shale), southwest Wyoming, the Big Horn Basin and Canada.
To be completed later this year, the facility initially will include three loop tracks, each capable of holding one unit train while automated loading racks will load two trains with different crude types simultaneously. Initial rail loading capacity will total about 80,000 barrels per day.
Plans were also announced to build a joint crude oil unit train loading facility at Casper, Wyo., along the same main line - about 100 miles north and west of Guernsey. Cogent Energy Solutions and Granite Peak Development announced that construction is slated to begin in April on the Granite Peak Casper Logistics Hub. Completion is targeted for October.
The Casper facility design will allow for the loading of multiple grades of crude oil, both heavy and light, while also providing blending onsite. The terminal will offer an initial capacity of 900,000 barrels of crude and capability to expand to a capacity of more than 3 million barrels. The double-loop track design at Casper will enable the facility to simultaneously load two 118-tank car unit trains with different crude grades.
"As demand continues to rise, BNSF has stepped up to provide a more flexible, long-term and economical option to ship crude oil to destination markets throughout the East, West and Gulf coasts and along the Mississippi River," said Dave Garin, BNSF group vice president, Industrial Products.
BNSF currently services 10 crude oil unit-train facilities in the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana.
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