Recent track improvements will allow Union Pacific Railroad to increase the speed of its trains to 49 mph in South Texas.

Western Gas acquired a 25% ownership interest in the JV, and Enterprise retains the remaining 75%.

The trucks, expected to be deployed later this year, will be integrated into Linde's fleet of more than 700 trucks carrying cryogenic gases to customers throughout North America.

Rail has helped to resolve two of the biggest challenges that producers and operators have faced in the play: moving oil out of the basin and moving it around the basin.

Union Pacific Railroad is investing more than $20 million in the rail line between Chester, Missouri, and near Scott City, Missouri, to strengthen Illinois' and Missouri's transportation.

Murex Ltd. and Bulk Resources Inc.’s joint project, the Gulf Gateway Terminal, is slated to begin operations at the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana.

When operating on CNG, the environment-friendly vehicles emit about 90% fewer emissions than gasoline-powered vehicles and are estimated to save approximately $5,100 per truck in fuel cost annually.

While the catchphrase is “crude-by-rail,” but Rick Webb, chief executive of Watco Companies, is quick to note that it is more than just crude being transported by rail in the new shale revolution.

Savage Services announced that it’s offering expanded services at its terminals in Salt Lake City and Price, Utah, including crude-by-rail transloading services and associated car storage on a manifest basis.

Tom Petrie, former vice chairman of Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, will deliver the luncheon keynote address at Hart Energy’s Developing Unconventionals (DUG) Bakken and Niobrara conference May 29-31 in Denver.

Before the railroad came to the Williston Basin, much of the oil produced in the Bakken was held hostage to overloaded or out of reach pipeline.

Paccar subsidiary Peterbilt announced that on August 1 it will begin selling trucks for the North American market equipped with the spark-ignited, 2013 Cummins Westport “ISX12 G” natural gas engine.

‘It’s a very cost-effective, flexible and quickly developable solution,’ says BNSF Railway’s Cami Large.

The terminal will have two million barrels of storage capacity consisting of four tanks with a 250,000-bbl. capacity each and 10 tanks with 100,000 bbl. capacities each.