[paxmark1]

Posted previous elsewhere, lots of 80-120 groups of tankers capable of being steam heated go east over the Red River every day in Winnipeg on CN and CPR. Empties come back west in clumps of 10-20.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('paxmark1', 'P')osted previous elsewhere, lots of 80-120 groups of tankers capable of being steam heated go east over the Red River every day in Winnipeg on CN and CPR. Empties come back west in clumps of 10-20.

[ROCKMAN]

Found a bit of news. From: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... e-oil.html

Enbridge Inc. and privately-held Tundra Energy Marketing Ltd. are working together on a project to bring growing light oil production from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota to market by rail. Under a memorandum of understanding announced Tuesday, each company will own half of a loading terminal near Cromer, Man., which should be able to handle some 60,000 barrels of crude per day early next year. The first 30,000-barrel-per-day phase, under construction, is expected to be up and running by July. It will receive crude from trucks and Winnipeg-based Tundra's existing pipeline network.

Also a problem: "CP Rail lowers estimate of oil spill in western Minn., says clean-up continues"

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/busine ... 09191.html

[Newfie]

If you look at Bing maps you can see the new DelawareCuty yard in construction. Then on GE you can see it as completed.

Even newer is an electrical yard to the NE, not shown on either. Just a short while ago this plant was shut down. Surely a lot of work going on there now.

We are in the marina in Delaware City.

[ROCKMAN]

Update from: http://www.rbnenergy.com/crude-loves-ro ... -terminals

“The EIA PADD 1 that covers the US Eastern seaboard has about 1.3 million b/d of operable crude refining capacity. About 80 percent of that capacity or 1 million b/d was utilized during January 2013. About 80 percent of PADD 1 refining capacity is configured to process light sweet or light/medium sour crudes. Traditionally these refineries have been supplied by waterborne crude delivered from the US Gulf Coast or imported crude from North West Europe and Africa. There is no pipeline capacity to deliver crude to the East Coast from the Gulf Coast or from Midwest crude distribution centers such as Cushing, OK or Chicago, IL. So until recently East Coast refiners operated solely on a diet of international crude sourced mainly from Europe and priced against the North Sea benchmark Brent crude. Over the past two to three years Brent has sold at a premium to US inland crudes priced against the Midwest benchmark WTI crude because a lack of infrastructure is preventing the latter from reaching coastal markets.

Rail shipments of crude to East Coast refiners have jumped from zero at the end of 2011 to somewhere north of 200 Mb/d and growing daily. Most of the crude being delivered by rail is light sweet crude from North Dakota. East Coast refiners have also arranged crude by rail supplies from Western Canada. As we have frequently pointed out, crude by rail transport infrastructure can be planned and built with very short lead times. Bakken crude rail loading capacity expanded from about 275 Mb/d at the end of 2011 to over 900 Mb/d this year.”