Posted on 06/24/2018 3:27:23 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
An estimated 230,000 gallons (870,619 liters) of crude oil spilled into floodwaters in the northwestern corner of Iowa following a train derailment, a railroad official said Saturday.
In this aerial drone image taken from video and provided by the Sioux County Sheriff's Office, tanker cars carrying crude oil are shown derailed about a mile south of Doon, Iowa, Frida, June 22, 2018. About 31 cars derailed after the tracks reportedly collapsed due to saturation from flood waters from adjacent Little Rock River. (Sioux County Sheriff's Office via AP) In this aerial drone image taken from video and provided by the Sioux County Sheriffs Office, tanker cars carrying crude oil are shown derailed about a mile south of Doon, Iowa, Frida, June 22, 2018. About 31 cars derailed after the tracks reportedly collapsed due to saturation from flood waters from adjacent Little Rock River. (Sioux County Sheriffs Office via AP)
BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said 14 of 32 oil tanker cars just south of Doon in Lyon County leaked oil into surrounding floodwaters from the swollen Little Rock River. Williams had earlier said 33 oil cars had derailed.
Nearly half the spill an estimated 100,000 gallons (378,530 liters) had been contained with booms near the derailment site and an additional boom placed approximately 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) downstream, Williams said. Skimmers and vacuum trucks were being used to remove the oil. Crews will then use equipment to separate the oil from the water.
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Let's get those danged pipelines in the ground!
Buffets Valdez.
Low demand for movement by rail currently. Market must be saturated.
Low demand for movement by rail currently. Market must be saturated.
Dont know where you got that tidbit; everything Ive read about current domestic oil situation states that distribution is the limiting factor on the production side, whether its rail, pipelines or trucks. In fact, if you have a commercial drivers license and looking for work, head for West Texas, truck drivers are getting over $100k/year in the Permian Basin...
Much like the wild fires on the west coast derailments also bring to mind eco terrorists, remember they lost big time with Hilldabeast
Buffets Valdez.
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Wow, yer fast...beat me by a few mins...likely won’t be p o intend out anywhere else, even Maria Bartiromo seems to like him.
Reported by the Manila Times? All the fake news so called “reporters” must be at the detainment centers trying to film crying illegal alien children.
Back when Obama, Ryan, McConnell et al were holding up the the Keystone Pipeline I sort of suspected that part of t he reason was to make sure that Uncle Warren’s tank cars remained full.
There is low demand for movement of crude by rail ... the remainder of statement is. based on low demand to move crude by rail ... ah but I repeat myself
...Rail transport hit a low last summer of around 120,000 barrels per day, Kringstad said, but was back up to 260,000 barrels per day in March as market conditions shifted to favor east and west coast crude by rail markets.
Some of that shift is a result of oversupply in Cushing, Oklahoma, Kringstad said. Permian oil is congesting that market hub, lowering prices. Oil that can go to east and west coast refineries is thus finding better prices there.
In addition to lower transportation costs, the industry found new and better ways to complete its wells during the downturn, lowering Bakken breakevens. Now, with market prices improving, the oil and gas sector is set to take off.
The takeoff is still being substantially constrained by lack of labor, with more than 13,000 job openings statewide...
Thank you for your informative post. FReepers always have the info ... thanks once more
This spill story went national Friday. This second round of stories is because the amount of oil was determined.
Bakken oil on trains frequently goes east, but this was reportedly headed for the Oklahoma oil hub. Not enough pipeline capacity.
I doubt the veracity. There was certainly a spill but not all the crude in those tankers leaking spilled.
The extrapolation lie is for environimental propaganda
Good to learn that. Do you know of estimates of the amount released? (The paper over here said that ~100,000 gal. had been captured by booms.)
31 typical oil tanker cars
30,000 gallons per tanker
930,000 gallons potential spill
less than one-third admitted spilled (equivalent of seven full cars)
seems reasonable
Half a century ago, I lived with my parents up in that neck o' the woods. Doon in those days was considered a sleepy place by folks from Rock Rapids and George... but maybe not so much this weekend.
Meanwhile, the amount of oil spilled by the Keystone Pipeline last year is zero.
Monied interests fight pipelines because they make money moving oil by rail.
They masquerade as environmentalists, but trains are much worse for the environment.
But the idiot lefties believe every word.
Any soros protestitutes show up yet to feign concern? A dent.. well, thats a start.
Time to ban trains...
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