Regional Stories from Williston Wireline -- FEMA Trailers to Oil Patch; 2,000 More Railcars to the Bakken; Montana Native To Head COP

FEMA trailers from last year's Minot flooding will be moved to the oil patch, Minot Daily News.

Three-bedroom FEMA mobile homes will be made available to area American Indian tribes and other tribes in the Great Plains region when the homes are no longer needed. Currently, the homes are being used by people displaced by last year's Souris River flood and most of the homes are in Minot.

Phillips 66 to buy 2,000 railcars to ship oil out of the Bakken, Reuters.

Oil companies in fast-growing U.S. shale fields such as the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Niobrara and Permian have turned to rail, trucks and barges to haul crude because pipeline development has not kept up.

"We're going to add rail capacity," Garland said. "We're considering buying a couple thousand more railcars so we can get Bakken crude either east and west."

Phillips 66, the newly spun-off downstream arm of ConocoPhillips, has refineries on the East, West and Gulf Coasts, and Garland said the company currently refines about 100,000 barrels per day of shale oil but could handle 500,000 bpd.

The initial goal is to increase delivery of shale crudes to Phillips refineries by 100,000 to 150,000 bpd within two years using railroad unit trains.

Montana Tech grad takes over as chief executive officer, COP, Oil and Gas Chronicle. 

Lance’s father was in the military, and his family moved often through his adolescence. Yet, Montana was always home, and a family farm near Wolf Point served as their base of operations even when dad was stationed at far-flung bases elsewhere.

Eventually Lance’s father was transferred closer to home, Malmstrom Air Force base near Great Falls, and Lance graduated from Great Falls High School. His parents, Montana State graduates who live in Billings, thought Ryan would go to Bozeman to pursue an engineering degree because of his proclivity for math and science. But one visit to the Butte campus and a little research changed their mind.