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 ...

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 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 ...

Generally, federal regulations require rail cars loaded with a Class 3 flammable liquid, such as crude oil, to be moved promptly within 48 hours. 49 C.F.R. §174.14.

Add tank-car makers to the list of U.S. industries bracing for the effects from the plunge in crude prices. While 2014’s record orders, including an all-time high 42,900 in the third quarter ...

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 ...

U.S. crude stockpiles at the Cushing, Oklahoma, hub fell to their lowest level in 14 months in October on strong refining and export demand, ...

Canadian crude oil exports by rail keep reaching all-time highs. Over 229,500 bbl per day were transported in August 2018, according to the National Energy Board. This was the fifth month in a ...

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.