Jeff Robertson
EPPING, N.D. – Crestwood Midstream Partners has loaded its 1,000th crude oil unit train at its COLT Hub in Epping, about 15 miles northeast of Williston. The facility began service in June 2012 with an original capacity to load 80,000 barrels per day, but now handles up to 160,000 barrels per day after undergoing two expansions.
We are pleased to announce this crude loading milestone at the COLT Hub,” says Bill Gautreaux, president of Crestwood’s Liquids and Crude Business Unit. “The COLT Hub is a major distribution point for crude oil produced in the Bakken.”
“North Dakota recently surpassed a major milestone of one million barrels of crude production per day,” says Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council. “In addition, the industry has proven that this amount of production can be moved to market efficiently. Rail has played a big role in those movements and is now making other value added energy projects possible.”
BNSF Railway serves the facility.
“North Dakota recently surpassed a major milestone of one million barrels of crude production per day,” says Ron Ness
At 42 gallons per barrel in VERY rough terms:
1. You could almost fill a tank that was 500’ x 500’ x 22.5’ tall in one day.
2. If you put the oil in gallon milk containers, put 4 jugs in a milk crate, and laid the crates end to end starting from Grantville, PA along I-80 / PA turnpike / I-70 / I-44 / I-40…your last crate would be in Flagstaff, AZ. And to do that in one day you would have to lay the crates at the speed of approximately 90 MPH (worse than Lucille Ball trying to keep up with the conveyor in a chocolate factory 🙂