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Crude Oil by Rail
Posted by WilliamKiesel on Sunday, November 23, 2014 8:21 PM

According to the Pipeline and Gas Journal, "Rail transportation is quick and the movement of product to market can bring cash much quicker. Crude mving from the Bakken area, is an example. Moving oil from the Bakken by rail to Gulf Coast refineries takes five to seven days. Pipelines take about 40 days."

"Cost of rail shipment of crude is two to three times the typical pipeline cost of $5/bbl. to move oil. But the advantages outweigh the additional cost. The economics for everyone, porducer and shipper, far outweigh the increase. Maybe the most important advantage is the variabiility of markets available because of rail. Markets paying the highest prices for crude can be slected at the time."

"..railroads' revenue for moving crude has risen from $25.5 million in 2008 to $2.15 billion in 2013."

"A recent sudy, sponsored by the north Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC), found no major differences between Bakken crude and other U.S. crudes."

See: http://www.pgjonline.com/peak-crude-production-requires-new-transport-capacity-variety

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:29 PM

WilliamKiesel

According to the Pipeline and Gas Journal, "Rail transportation is quick and the movement of product to market can bring cash much quicker. Crude mving from the Bakken area, is an example. Moving oil from the Bakken by rail to Gulf Coast refineries takes five to seven days. Pipelines take about 40 days."

"Cost of rail shipment of crude is two to three times the typical pipeline cost of $5/bbl. to move oil. But the advantages outweigh the additional cost. The economics for everyone, porducer and shipper, far outweigh the increase. Maybe the most important advantage is the variabiility of markets available because of rail. Markets paying the highest prices for crude can be slected at the time."

"..railroads' revenue for moving crude has risen from $25.5 million in 2008 to $2.15 billion in 2013."

"A recent sudy, sponsored by the north Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC), found no major differences between Bakken crude and other U.S. crudes."

See: http://www.pgjonline.com/peak-crude-production-requires-new-transport-capacity-variety

 

 

William Kiesel: Seems that you have pointed out a pretty potent economic lesson !   The figures seem to be pretty impressive.  Thanks for posting the link to the article.

FTL: [snipped] "...Markets paying the highest prices for crude can be slected at the time."

"..railroads' revenue for moving crude has risen from $25.5 million in 2008 to $2.15 billion in 2013."

"A recent sudy, sponsored by the north Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC), found no major differences

 between Bakken crude and other U.S. crudes..."

               The statement about" the markets paying the highest prices can be selected at the time."    Is reminescent to the way my father supplied his manufacturing lumber plant, in Kansas with its feed stock of Ponderosa Pine ( cut, milled and shipped ( on speculatively loaded cars) by rail from the PNW.)  The prices being negotiated whie the car was enroute, and its destination could be changed by the shipper.   

Just a comment:   In the last three weeks, retail priced gas prices have gone from the $3.00 area to currently at $1.63 around here...

 

 

 


 

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Posted by Dakguy201 on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 5:22 AM

samfp1943


   

Just a comment:   In the last three weeks, retail priced gas prices have gone from the $3.00 area to currently at $1.63 around here...

Typo?  Perhaps $2.63?

 

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Posted by samfp1943 on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:18 AM

Dakguy201
 
samfp1943


   

Just a comment:   In the last three weeks, retail priced gas prices have gone from the $3.00 area to currently at $1.63 around here...

 

 

Typo?  Perhaps $2.63?

 

 

Exactly: My Bad  Oops - Sign it was  $2.63   

 Might have been a case of wishful thinking? 

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Posted by rcdrye on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 9:23 AM

Here's a regional TV outlet's view of shipping oil by rail - done without talking to anyone at the carrier (CP Rail's former Delaware and Hudson).

http://www.wptz.com/news/train-troubles-oil-traveling-the-tracks-and-why-more-could-soon-be-coming/29933440

Note the anchorwoman and the "expert" strolling (read "trespassing") down the middle of the CP mainline track (nice, shiny 136 lb. rail) without any protective gear.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:43 AM

I wonder if CP Rail could charge them with criminal trespass.  With all the fuss over that film crew's fatal fiasco...

Responsible journalism and the dodo have something in common.

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:48 AM

tomikawaTT
Responsible journalism

An oxymoron if ever there were one to be found.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:38 AM

tomikawaTT

I wonder if CP Rail could charge them with criminal trespass.  With all the fuss over that film crew's fatal fiasco...

Responsible journalism and the dodo have something in common.

Chuck

 

Chuck, I would make that "responsible" journalism. Both of those people, even as they deplore the, to them, lack of safety in the shipping of oil by rail show great ignorance of safe practices when near a railroad.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:50 PM

tomikawaTT
I wonder if CP Rail could charge them with criminal trespass.

That type of thing has been known to happen.  A California fire inspector got nailed by CalOSHA when a picture of him standing on a roof, without fall protection gear, appeared in a newspaper...

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:08 PM

We already have the thread about discipline getting assessed to rail employees from admissions in social media - this is no different except the 'miscreants' are incriminating themselves on public media.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Monday, December 15, 2014 3:00 PM

The politics of cheap oil and domestic pipe line permits. 

Greens who want President Barack Obama to kill the Keystone XL pipeline are adding a new weapon to their arsenal of protests and lawsuits — the world’s glut of cheap oil.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/oil-keystone-xl-113551.html#ixzz3M0D6r4Jj

 

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Posted by MidlandMike on Monday, December 15, 2014 6:55 PM
If Canada can't find the political will to build any of the 3 proposed heavy oil pipelines within their borders, then I don't think the US should volunteer to accommodate Keystone.
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Posted by dakotafred on Monday, December 15, 2014 8:32 PM

MidlandMike
If Canada can't find the political will to build any of the 3 proposed heavy oil pipelines within their borders, then I don't think the US should volunteer to accommodate Keystone.
 

Agreed. Let it go by rail.

Also, Canada and/or the provinces have monkeywrenched so many North Dakota water projects, I don't really care what happens to their Keystone pipeline. (Aside from finding myself on the same side as Obama and the greenies.)

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