Sentences with phrase «rail shipments increase»

That would account for shipping costs and the lower quality of WCS versus WTI, as crude - by - rail shipments increase and capacity returns to normal on the Keystone pipeline across the U.S., which has faced pressure limits since it leaked in November in South Dakota.

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Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

Speaking in New York in May, Mr. Harper emphasized that the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to an increase in oil sands shipments by rail, which he called «more environmentally challenging» than pipelines.

CN Rail, for instance, was prepared in the fall of 2011 to increase shipments of bitumen, the heavy oil from Alberta's oilsands sector, from 10,000 barrels of bitumen per day to 200,000 barrels per day.

There have been increased shipments of crude by rail and barge.