The change comes amid public concern about the safety of shipping crude by train. Since 2008, derailments of oil trains in the U.S. and Canada have seen the older 70,000-gallon tank cars break ...

As of October 1, 2015, new tank cars that carry crude oil or other flammable liquids must be built to DOT 117 rules. These cars have thicker steel ends, or head shields, to prevent puncture ...

Crude storage tanks in the United States are nearly 65 percent full as record low oil prices and falling fuel demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic take their toll on the industry. After in ...

The Department of Transportation banned about 3 percent of a fleet of railroad tank cars from carrying flammable crude oil Tuesday, according to the rail industry’s leading advocacy group ...

Crude oil hauled by rail needs to be shipped in stronger tank cars and on safer routes, transportation investigators in the U.S. and Canada said following a series of accidents in North America.

The Gulf Gateway Terminal opened at the Port of New Orleans in May 2013 in order to receive shipments of crude oil by rail from Canadian and U.S. Locations and send it by barge to refineries. Such ...

Crews at the second largest U.S. refinery were containing crude oil gushing from a giant storage tank at the Houston-area facility on Wednesday, a company spokesman said.

Crude tanks at the largest US storage hub and the pricing point for millions of dollars worth of oil contracts are running dry, threatening their ability to operate normally and sending prices ...