Wow: Direct Pipeline-To-Rail Operation, Berthold Oil Terminal; Time For A New Poll

Updates

March 21, 2013: Enbridge, Phillips 66 announce 3-year deal for Berthold oil terminal

Original Post

Remember that incredible video of that long line of trucks waiting to unload oil at the Bakken Oil Express facility west of Dickinson? Get a load of this: the Minot Daily News is reporting a direct pipeline-to rail operation at Enbridge's Berthold Oil Terminal:

• the terminal can fill an entire unit train (100 - 118 rail tank cars) in 14 hours
• can fill up to 8 unit trains/week
• a unit train carries 80,000 bbls of oil
• can accommodate three unit trains at one time
• previously, this terminal would fill a unit train with oil trucked in, taking five to six days

Go to the link at the Minot Daily News to see the photo and get additional information. 

*************************

Pipeline, The Chantays

*************************

Time for a new poll. 

First, the results the current poll. The question was: if federal leases are inadequate to fully fund the president's new Energy Security Trust to fund more Solyndra-like projects, would you be willing to support an initiative to transfer some of your Bakken royalties to the Energy Security Trust?

• Yes: 7%
• No: 93%

Now, the new poll:

Watch the video above, and then watch the linked video at the very top of this post. After watching both videos, which do you prefer to see: more videos of trucks hauling oil in the Bakken, or more videos of scantily clad women surfing off the Big Island?