Western Railroad Discussion > Ho-hum, another Bakken oil to rail terminal

Dakota Gold LLC - Mountrail county, ND on the eastern edge of the Bakken. On a spur controlled by the company and served by CPR.

>>The Plaza Terminal will aggregate crude oil produced in Mountrail and neighboring counties, utilizing gathering pipelines and trucks. The terminal will also provide crude oil storage services through on-site tankage. The rail facility will have a throughput capacity of 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) and storage capacity of more than 300,000 barrels, with expansion to 600,000 barrels during a planned second phase.

The terminal’s design includes two loop tracks with storage for one to two additional trains on the private rail spur, a covered loading barn, a 14-arm system capable of loading a unit train in approximately 14 hours, 15 truck unloading bays and three 103,000-barrel storage tanks. The Plaza site is large enough to allow for substantial expansions of storage and transload capacity as customer demand increases.<<


https://www.tankterminals.com/news_detail.php?id=2872

With BNSF so luckily dominant in this area i am glad to see that CP will have another loading point. Competition! Sounds like a good, well planned terminal IMHO.