New Town CBR Terminal To Connect With Hiland Crude Oil Pipeline System -- August 18, 2014

Updates

September 2, 2014: press release on new storage capacity at this terminal. 
 

Original Post

From Yahoo!In-Play:

Dakota Plains and Hiland Crude announce Bakken gathering pipeline to Pioneer Rail Terminal:

• Dakota Plains and Hiland Crude jointly announced the execution of an interconnection agreement that links Dakota Plains' Pioneer Rail Terminal in New Town, North Dakota, with Hiland's Market Center Gathering System crude oil pipeline network. Construction for the final link is underway and is expected to be commissioned by October 31, 2014. 
• The connection to the Pioneer Terminal is expected to have an initial capacity of greater than 15,000 barrels a day and easily expanded to supply approximately 60,000 barrels of oil per day.

Regular readers know the principal owner in Hiland.

Screen shot of satellite view (Google maps) of the Dakota Plains' Pioneer Rail Terminal in New Town, North Dakota:

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Meanwhile, More Coal To China From The US

The Good News: Chinese CO2 Does Not Reach The US

Coal exporters are having a devil of a time expanding coal shipping terminals from US ports in Washington and Oregon ports. What does one do?

Expand capacity at west coast terminals in Canada. If the terminals cannot be physically enlarged, simply end agreements with non-coal shipping companies, and use that new capacity to ship coal.

That's exactly what Cloud Peak Energy is doing. Casper Star-Tribune is reporting:

Cloud Peak Energy announced a $37 million deal aimed at boosting its Asian exports by freeing space to ship its coal at an existing Canadian port.

The Gillette-based company paid Coal Valley Resources, a subsidiary of Westmoreland Coal, to terminate its existing shipping agreement with Westshore Terminals in Roberts Bank, British Columbia. The deal also extends Cloud Peak's contract at the facility from 2022 to 2024. 

The company said Friday that it expects Asian sales to increase to between 6 million and 6.5 million tons in 2015, up from an anticipated 4 million to 4.5 million tons this year. Asian exports are expected to increase 7 million to 7.5 million tons beginning in 2019, Cloud Peak said.

Westmoreland is consolidating its shipping operations in the Canadian port of Prince Rubert.

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So, Where Do We Stand On This Anthropogenic Global Warming?

In the last 48 hours ....

It appears that Chinese and Indian CO2 does not reach the US: more and more coal is being shipped to Asia and India as more and more coal plants are built.

It also appears that European CO2 does not reach the US, as Germany returns to the coal standard.

Natural gas futures are falling because summer is cooler than forecast.

The "warmists" model failed to predict the 18-year pause in warming because ... the model was too complex...if you simplify the model (change the fudge factors, as we used to say in college biology), the problems go away and everything can be explained ...

Snow is set to blast Scotland -- as forecasters predict the coldest August spell in a century.

Somewhere in Canada they're still dealing with an 18-foot high mount of snirt which hasn't melted -- despite August ...

Record amounts of rainfall across the US --- as predicted by warmists ....

Antarctic sea ice extent setting new records.

But without question, the most amazing thing is the fact that the "warmists" model failed to predict the 18-year pause (or can't explain the pause) because climate is just too complex, and yet, the model can predict the earth's temperature a hundred years from now.

I keep putting my popsicle sticks, with millimeter hashmarks, into the Pacific beach sand to track the rise in ocean levels --- but the sticks keep getting washed out to sea. 

Whatever.

[Hours after posting the above, I was mindlessly surfing the web when I came across this over Carpe Diem:

4. Some Inconvenient Weather Facts: a) the frequency Of 100 Degree readings in the US is the lowest since 1906; b) Arctic Sea ice coverage is the highest since 2004 – close to 1974 levels; and c) the frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and is the lowest on record this summer; d) there’s been a massive increase In Arctic Ice over the past two years; and, e) 90-degree days are running 40% below normal in DC this summer.

Wow.]