Rangeland Ships First Bakken Crude From Rail Terminal

Link to Oil & Gas Journal.

Data points

• Sugar Land, TX, - based Rangeland Energy
• 120-car unit train from its COLT open-access crude oil  terminal in North Dakota
• COLT has a 21-mile bidirectional COLT Connector pipeline -- connects with Tesoro and Enbridge
• Enbridge: building an 80,000 bopd terminal at Berthold, ND (west of Minot); in-service 1Q13
• Rangeland to have total ND takeaway capacity of 475,000 bopd by 2013
• Rangeland's COLT is sited in Williams County, ND; can store 720,000 bbls of oil
• BNSF provides rail transportation; capacity 120,000 bopd
• in addition to site in Williams County, Rangeland has a tank at its Dry Fork terminal, near Tioga, ND, where its bidirectional pipeline connects with Tesoro and Enbridge

It seems like I first wrote about this planned terminal "years" ago -- it's amazing how much is happening and how much is yet to happen in the Bakken.

One operation (Rangeland) with 475,000 bopd takeaway capacity by end of next year. Hmmm.