Sentences with phrase «crude oil shipments by»
Because of a hydraulic fracturing boom, crude oil shipments by rail spiked from 9,500 carloads in 2009 to nearly 400,000 carloads in 2013, AAR data show.
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Meanwhile, the 2015 repeal of a 40 - year - old ban on crude oil exports - passed by a Republican - controlled Congress and signed by former President Barack Obama - has made strategic shipments overseas possible.
Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.
Nigerian government now seeks a court order compelling the two companies to pay into the Federal government of Nigeria account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the sum of USD 406,751,070 being the total value of the missing revenue from the shortfall / undeclared / under - declared crude oil shipments of the country, made by the companies to United States of America.
PHMSA continues to advance a rulemaking addressing the integrity of DOT Specification 111 tanker cars and the safe shipment by rail of flammable materials such as crude oil.
The emergency meeting was held to evaluate and consider wide - ranging proposals to further enhance railroad safety including the safe shipment of crude oil by rail.
Specifically, a pattern of releases and fires involving petroleum crude oil shipments originating from the Bakken and being transported by rail constitute an imminent hazard under 49 U.S.C. 5121 (d).
At a time when train shipments of crude oil are expected to skyrocket in Canada, the federal government is cutting funding for Transport Canada, the country's transportation regulator, by almost 30 per cent, down to $ 1.5 billion, according to government spending estimates for 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14.