The rail strategy of PBF and other energy players took a knock this week from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who questioned the environmental impacts of crude-by-rail. PBF has invested heavily in its rail handling capacity at the 190,000-barrel-per-day refinery on the Delaware River south of Philadelphia – the only one on the U.S. east coast capable of processing Canadian heavy crude.
PBF is investing $50 million in a rail unloading facility near the Delaware City Refinery in a bold bet that the Keystone Pipeline from Canada will not be built for some time. The refinery is also receiving rail shipments of crude oil from North Dakota.
Receiving both bitumen and light oil by rail from western North America, PBF can now accommodate two “unit trains,” the 100-car configuration that is increasingly used to carry crude oil around the continent. Harper is pushing for the Keystone Pipeline, now under consideration by President Obama.
Opponents have questions about the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline, centering on the the impact of a leak of heavy tar sands oil that would be carried from Canada into the U.S.
Click on the link below for a link to the story from the Toronto Globe and Mail
via Harper takes shot at crude rail transport – The Globe and Mail.
