Our terminal in East Fairview, North Dakota is strategically located at the epicenter for inbound and outbound transloading in the Bakken Shale and Williston Basin regions of North Dakota.
Situated in McKenzie County on the border of North Dakota and Montana, NorthStar Transloading provides your company with an extensive national transportation network.
The 400 acre state-of-the-art terminal provides unit and manifest train switching and transloading.
Our BNSF-served rail yard is positioned and designed to support the ever increasing demand for rail transportation in and out of the Bakken region of North Dakota and the facility is designed to sustain continued growth as demand in the Bakken continues to increase.
NorthStar Transloading aims to be the premier transload partner for moving crude to high value markets and shipping industry aggregates into the region. Our industry experts can help you streamline your transportation and logistics needs and help you meet your operation deadlines.I'm not sure if it can be seen on google satellite images, but one possible location is a few miles east of East Fairview.
The best part of this story: the new facility is located well outside Williston, further de-conflicting all the transportation issues in that city.
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The SeekingAlpha article is a good article; lots of story lines; lots of things to think about. The article has to do with corporate profits. But is was two comments that caught my attention. The first comment:
The next great corporate savings will be healthcare, or should I say not having to pay for it. When large corporations realize how much more they can save by pushing their employees to ACA there will be another stair step in corporate profits.I agree 100%. I was surprised, the article said so little about ObamaCare.
The second comment:
They won't eliminate it [health care costs] completely. They'll pay their employees enough to go out and buy Obamacare. But they'll lose the aggravation and the potential legal liability. But they won't save a lot, there's still no such thing as a free lunch.There is no such thing as a "free lunch," but if one can set one's own price for lunch, that's not a bad deal.
What these folks are missing is "predictability." High cost of health care is/was an issue for corporations, but many of them could pass on the cost to their customers. The real problem for Corporate America was the unpredictability of annual increases in the health care costs. They simply couldn't budget what their costs were going to be.
By providing their employees a monthly stipend to find their own health care program, Corporate America can now plan how much they will spend on health care in the out years. I'm not saying ObamaCare will solve all the health care issues CA faces but it will certainly go a long way to making things easier for bigger corporations and more nimble corporations.
That CBR terminal has been in the planning stages for a few years, but the opening date keeps getting pushed back. I guess the latest estimate, from the transportation table published by the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, is an opening in the third quarter of this year with an initial 20,000 bpd of capacity (well less than a unit train). However, the target has always been to build a terminal capable of loading 100,000-200,000 bpd, which, if built in the upper end of that range, would be bigger than all but one current CBR terminal in North Dakota. Again, though, the opening date keeps getting pushed back.
ReplyDeleteThe track the facility is to be located alongside ends about one mile east of East Fairview, ND. This is the only track that remains of the line that was planned to go from Fairview, MT to New Rockford, ND, but ended up never getting built beyond Watford City.
Thank you for the update. The location you describe is probably what I saw on google satellite view. Interesting how that track after all these years will find additional purpose in life.
DeleteI wonder if this is the same as the NorthStar Terminal listed in the Williston Summit? The pcis from the air look as if dirt has been moved and tanks are being built? Maybe will become part of the same complex?
ReplyDeleteYes, I believe you are correct. The NorthStar Terminal will be a CBR terminal -- slide 6, crude oil, outbound. Thank you very much for noting this, taking time to write.
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