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Bakken crude to be rerouted in every direction if DAPL shuts | S&P Global Platts - Bakken Shale crude oil volumes would ship to the west, east and even up north into Canada and back into the US again as producers and pipeline operators target alternative routes if the Dakota Access Pipeline is shuttered, even temporarily, according to industry sources. A federal court could decide as soon as April 9 whether the Bakken Shale s main crude artery is forced to close, dispersing the volumes from the four-year-old, 570,000 b/d pipeline to other existing pipelines, lightly used crude-by-rail networks, and trucking routes, and widening Bakken crude price discounts. If the Energy Transfer-operated pipeline is o
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 2nd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 20 billion cubic feet to 1,784 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 235 billion cubic feet, or 11.6% below the 2,019 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 2nd of last year, and 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.3% below the five-year average of 1,808 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 2nd of April in recent years..the 20 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 27 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and was also less than the 30 billion cubic feet added to natural gas storage during the corresponding week of a year earlier, but was well more than the average addition of 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into nat
EPA, railroad agree to $140,000 settlement for Wyoming spill
April 6, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) The U.S. government and a railroad have reached a settlement agreement under which the company will pay $140,000 for spilling fuel and oil in a Wyoming river after a crash.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s announcement of the settlement Monday opened a 30-day period for people to comment on the agreement, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
Three BNSF Railway locomotives and five rail cars crashed into a train and derailed in eastern Wyoming s Wendover Canyon in 2019. The crash injured an engineer and conductor and released 5,900 gallons (22,000 liters) of diesel fuel and 800 gallons (3,000 liters) of lubricating oil into the North Platte River, according to the EPA.
BNSF Railway Co., has agreed to pay $140,000 for alleged Clean Water Act violations for discharging oil and fuel in the North Platte River near Guernsey two years ago, according to a news release from the Denver office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The company allegedly violated the Clean Water Act on Feb. 4, 2019, by discharging 5,900 gallons of diesel fuel and and 800 gallons of lubricating oil in Wendover Canyon northwest of Guernsey.
The discharges occurred due to a derailment of three locomotives and five rail cars owned by BNSF. Two locomotives were the sources of the fuel and oil.
BNSF reported the spill to the National Response Center and an EPA on-scene coordinator was sent to the spill site.
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