First Unit Train Set To Roll From Western Canada
Rigzone is reporting:
The terminal in Bruderheim, Alberta, which will be expanded to
100,000 bpd by the second half of next year as a second supply pipeline
is connected, initially will load only "dilbit" oil, or heavy bitumen
crude from Canada's oil sands region mixed with 30 percent light
condensate, Gary Kubera, chief executive of privately owned Canexus,
said in an interview.
The facility is the first of a half dozen or so Canadian projects
that have emerged over the past year to help carry more of the booming
production from the Alberta oil sands by rail as producers seek
alternatives to congested export pipelines. Shipping by rail is more
costly, but also more flexible.
At present, the oil sands are only served by manifest trains hauling
smaller loads, a less cost-effective mode of transport, but around
550,000 bpd of unit-train crude-by-rail projects - terminals that can
load up to 120 rail cars a day - are due to start up in Western Canada
by the end of 2014.
The Canexus terminal, which has been shipping 25,000 to 30,000 bpd of
crude from Bruderheim on manifest trains since 2012, has already
secured customer commitments for about 35 percent of its capacity. The
company expects 70 to 80 percent of capacity to be under contract by the
end of the year.
"The first unit train is set to run by the end of November," according to Kubera.
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