Transporting Crude Oil By Rail

Senator Everett Dirksen once noted “The oilcan is mightier than the sword”. In today’s world, it is easy to see why oil can be considered the most important resource to hold. Without oil, many of the common day occurrences we take for granted would be impossible. Oil is used for almost everything; from the fuel used to drive our vehicles, to the plastics used in every facet of life, and providing the heat needed to live through the winter. In fact, the United States depends so much on oil that as a nation it uses over 20 million barrels a day. Importing oil increases the total costs because of the need to transport it from around the world. It is estimated

Almost 95 million barrels of oil and fuel are produced each day in order to provide energy and fuel to people the world over. A major component of the oil industry is the transportation of oil through various means including oil pipelines. These pipelines are capable of transporting thousands of barrels of oil thousands of miles per day. In the United States one possible pipeline has caused a lot of controversy and discussion on the impact it will have on the United States. The difficulty in deciding if the Keystone XL Pipeline should be built is in whether the possibility of economic growth outweighs the possibility of environmental destruction. In order to make a decision, one must first look into the history of oil pipelines. It is crucial

One of these is that this pipeline will be among the largest in America. Yet the oil that flows through it will not be used in the US, but sent to Asia to compete with our own exports. The next is the accident rate in North Dakota is extremely high. There have been massive leaks, and spills all throughout the state, yet the companies are in bed with the politicians, and end up pay fractions of what they should. The most disturbing is that OSHA only has 9 inspectors between North and South Dakota. This lack of supervision and accountability contribute helps to one death once every six weeks. Since the big oil companies use subcontractors they cannot easily be sued for injuries, or deaths. As usual legalized corruption has a massive effect on policy, and regulation. The politicians turn a blind eye, while everyone else is

With the development of the act, laws and regulations addressing issues associated with the prevention, responds and payment of oil pollution were put in place. Such laws and regulations mandated new requirements for companies and their associated personnel involved in the shipment or extraction of oil, such as prevention and response plans, routine documentation and licensing renewal, and evidence of personnel’s competency and knowledge. The act also revised the staffing standards of all foreign shipment vessels, thereby requiring all foreign vessels to meet U.S standards to gain entry into U.S territory. Additionally, these prevention laws and regulations required new standards for shipment vessels and routine inspections. Due to the extreme

The Dakota Access Pipeline a controversy for many not just in North Dakota but around the U.S Should the construction continue, or due to extreme circumstances should it be halted immediately. This paper will go over all of the key facts about the Dakota Access Pipeline. How the pipeline is going to affect the environment, the production of oil and greenhouse gasses, the violence, and the fate for the U.S. if we violate sacred treaties.

The production of oil is one of Canada’s greatest assets as it brings in lots of profit but British Columbia is one the most beautiful places in the world and is a prime tourism area. This leads to the question is oil transportation right for British Columbia? Enbridge plans to build two pipelines that will carry oil from “central Alberta to coastal BC” (Alternatives Journal, 2012). Enbridge Incorporated is a company that is a main transporter of natural gas, crude oil and other liquids in Canada, as well as a major operator of pipelines in North America. Their plan is to run two 1170-kilometer pipelines across BC that will eventually be moving about 520,000 barrels of oil per day; this

The construction of pipelines means that companies would have to dig up ground, which could lead to several issues. The most notable issue of the oil pipelines is the destruction of the life cycle. Deforestation, homeless wildlife, and soil erosion are the main factors that would be greatly affected in the life cycle. (Williams, 2012). Although this issue is of great concern, there is not a more effective, efficient, and safer way to transport oil across the country. All other modes of transportation cause greater emissions of detrimental gases to the environment from the pulling of the heavy amounts of oil. Lastly, pipelines have valves that can block off spillages, while other methods have no possible way of stopping these spillages, causing the same environmental defects as the construction of the

David Morris, a writer specializing in transportation and logistics, gives various examples of past instances in which oil being carried by train has proved harmful to the environment and even fatal to many people involved in the accident. There are also numerous statistical pieces of research included, supporting the concept that railway transport is less safe than using an underground pipeline for the oil. In the Fortune article “Pipelines: The Worst Way to Move Oil, Except For All the Rest”, Morris Presents a short review of the recent events in relation to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) before suggesting another factor that could pose a threat to the area. The dangers of transporting the oil via railway are addressed, giving another perspective on how the situation could be made far worse for the Industries supporting the project and the environmentalists protesting against its

Oil is imperative to the endurance of today’s society and plays a major role in the world’s economy. The Keystone XL Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline that is designed to run from “Hardisty, Alberta…to Steele City, Nebraska,” (About The Project). Citizens of Canada and the United States are debating the development of the pipeline. There are two sides to this issue, to either approve or disapprove the Keystone XL Pipeline, and by researching this topic I will form an opinion.

Australian Oil Refining Pty Ltd ('AOR') and Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd ('Caltex') were gatherings for managing harmony according to which AOR refined unrefined petroleum that was delivered to its refinery on the southern shore of Botany Bay by Caltex, and after that dispatched the refined item back to Caltex's oil terminal on the northern shore of Botany Bay by means of a pipeline that kept streaming under bay. AOR was the title-holder of the pipeline. Under the terms of the agreement Caltex held accountability for oil in its different structures, and AOR was answerable for the hazard of destruction or depletion to the oil as it streamed through its pipeline.

The trucking industry is the “life blood” of the United States economy. Carrying 9.2 billion tons in freight accounting for a little over 600 billion dollars in total revenue. (7: http://tinyurl.com/n5hfx3r)Whiles these numbers represent the trucking industry as a whole, AM trucking will be specializing in a certain field known as “oilfield trucking”. Oilfield trucking is largely dependent on the oil and gas industry, which is continually booming. With fossil fuel rich regions in Wyoming, North Dakota and Texas, the United States is set to surpass Saudi Arabia as the biggest oil and gas producer in the world. (6: p39lj94). With such a positive outlook for the future of the oil and gas industry, it insures a positive outlook for the oil field trucking industry, because everyone needs trucks, from moving rigs and equipment, to hauling oil and water away, and ‘frack’ sand and base rock. “Right now, every company is hurting for that.”(In reference to oil field trucking companies) (7: n5hfx3r)

There regulation in place but every time there spending cut, technology is the first to by impacted, although the strategies and policies created by the government and this companies are basically on the right track, significant aspects of implementation are seriously deficient. The oil and gas industry have o lot of information that criminal can use to attack some more important that other. Criminal can destroy a lot of data for example financial information they can also get customer information, chemical formulas and specific project information that can have a greater effect and impact to the economy and the

Where this agreement usually ends, however, is with the question of quality control refining processes from my viewpoint. Anotherwords, what control measures are enforced to ensure all contaminants are entirely removed to guarantee a high level of quality assurance and security of the petroleum sectors within the nation’s infrastructures? Are there residual contaminants affecting the quality of fuel supplied to the nation’s energy consumers? From a preceding viewpoint, it can be related to the Colorado Floods that occurred in September 2013. Even the prevailing thought of hazardous waste introduced to the Colorado geographical landscape does not eliminate the second and third order affects imposed on the nation’s petroleum pipeline infrastructure by way of corrosion, introducing chemicals into the pipeline arteries through small cracks that may extend beyond Colorado, an implication that cannot be ruled out. Water contamination prevention-or across the board programs-from the negative effect of hydraulic fracturing should be an expectation from petroleum energy producers. Moreover, it reminds us of an infrastructure security vulnerability, which is not often specified, when hydraulic fracturing is correlated to the role water functions through the conventional petroleum refining process, along with vast arrays of petroleum pipelines that exist across the nation’s geographical landscapes. These concerns should be brought

On any given day in the United States there can be as many as five hundred thousand shipments of hazardous materials transported all over the country. There are close to Five billion tons of regulated hazardous waste that move between states annually either by truck, rail, air, or water carriers. Truck transport is the most common way of transporting hazardous materials in terms of both tonnage and vehicles. This poses a major risk to the public because these truck are driving down streets, roads, highways and interstate routes that lead into highly populated communities such as towns and cities. The large number of trucks that are traveling on these road are subject to all kinds of risk factors that could cause an accident. This puts the environment

Any oil business bears the risk of an oil spill. It is critical to know how to avoid and react to this kind of catastrophes, to minimalize the effect on humanity and the environment. There are several agencies that work together to guarantee that these oil spills do not happen and to resourcefully react in the event a spill occurs. Oil spills have occurred in the past and with federal, state and local agencies working together, they can plan, respond and cleanup the contamination from the oil. In this research paper, I will explore the regulations, environmental and humanity safeguards, the cost of cleanup, loss of revenues, lawsuits, internal city policies and execution, and