Here We Go: A New Multi-Rail Terminal in Western North Dakota -- Bakken, USA

Savage Companies announced plans to build a multi-rail terminal near Trenton, ND. Trenton is just a few miles southwest of Williston, where there has been a lot of activity recently, and sits right on the major BNSF rail line. It is located near the Montana border, specifically looking at Elm Coulee, in addition to what is going on in North Dakota.

The terminal will include ability to load and ship oil.

The terminal will be designed to bring large-scale rail service to the Bakken with oil-field related materials such as tubular, frac sand and other strategic materials, including the capability to load and ship unit trains of crude oil.

It is expected to be completed by the end of 2011.

This appears to be a huge deal. For the folks in Trenton, it certainly has to be a big, big deal.

This is a great location, by the way. I'm sure the Williston folks would have liked this to have been built in Williston but it would have overwhelmed the infrastructure of the city, particularly all the truck traffic that will entail, moving cargo in and out, including oil, to the terminal.

I could be wrong, but this seems to be a big, big deal. 

It will employ 150 people while it is being constructed and steady-state employment will be 40 - 60 people, which should make it the biggest employer in the Trenton area.