U.S. crude-by-rail projects

HOUSTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. oil producers, refiners and logistics companies are deep into the crude-by-rail movement with dozens of projects throughout the United States. Rapid proliferation of oil-by-train shipments started more than three years ago to get oil to markets as pipeline infrastructure lagged booming U.S. and Canadian crude production. The American Association of Railroads said 770,604 barrels per day moved by rail through the first quarter of 2013 - about a 10th of U.S. crude output - up from 22,689 barrels per day in 2009. The East and West coasts, in particular, turned to rail to tap cheaper U.S. and Canadian crude with no major oil pipelines in operation, or even planned, to move inland crude to those markets. However, rail evolved past a stopgap measure into an integral crude sourcing mode for refiners, adding flexibility to choose the best-priced crude from various shale and tight oil plays. Contracts are shorter, and they are not completely locked into specific types of crude moved from fixed points via pipeline. Here is a rundown of some 70 U.S. rail projects - both loading at production sites and unloading at refineries and terminals - that have emerged as U.S. shale and Canadian production grows: WEST COAST Company Name Project Capacity Crude Status (barrels-per-da y) Tesoro Corp Crude by rail to 120,000 50,000 Bakken Operational bpd Anacortes, Washington, refinery U.S. Oil and Crude-by-rail at its 40,700 N/A Bakken Operational Refining bpd refinery in Tacoma, Washington Tesoro Corp and Crude-by-rail and marine Initially Bakken and Approved by port Savage Services offloading facility at the 120,000, Canadian commissioners Port of Vancouver in expandable to July 23, Washington State; 280,000 awaiting OK from state governor; operational in 2014. Phillips 66 Crude-by-rail offloading Currently Bakken and Awaiting permit facility at 100,000 bpd receiving Canadian approvals; Ferndale, Washington 20,000 of North operational in refinery American crude fourth quarter via 2014 mixed-freight shipments; facility will increase that by 20,000 BP Plc Crude-by-rail offloading 60,000 Bakken Under facility at 225,000 bpd construction; Cherry Point refinery in startup in Blaine, Washington; spring 2014 Royal Dutch Crude rail offloading at N/A Bakken, Expect to file Shell 145,000 bpd Puget Sound Canadian permits in refinery in Anacortes, summer 2013 as Washington consider whether to proceed Alon Energy USA Offloading facility to Up to 70,000 Bakken and Awaiting permits bring crude by rail to Texas Bakersfield, California, Permian refinery, which operates as Basin; a single system with two longer term other plants in Paramount the Monterey and Long Beach Shale in California Plains All Crude by rail at 65,000 Bakken, Start up in American Bakersfield, California, Niobrara, first half 2014 terminal Eagle Ford Valero Energy Rail offloading facility at Up to 70,000 Inland U.S. Seeking permits Corp 132,000 bpd refinery in and Benicia, California Canadian. Valero Rail offloading facility at 60,000 Inland U.S. Seeking permits 78,000 bpd refinery in and Canadian Wilmington, California U.S. Development Grays Harbor offloading Up to 50,000 Bakken, Seeking permits Group terminal in Aberdeen, with a 120-car Canadian Washington; loading onto unit-train barges or ships. delivery every two days Westway Expansion of existing Grays up to 50,000 Bakken, Seeking permits Terminals LLC Harbor facility from 18 bpd with Canadian loading/unloading spots to 120-car unit 76, dock expansion train delivery every other day EAST COAST Company Name Project Capacity (In Crude Status barrels-per-day ) Phillips 66, Crude by rail to Albany, 80,000-90,000 Bakken Operational, Global Partners New York, then by barge to at times 70,000 though can LP the 238,000 bpd Bayway reduce rail refinery in Linden, New shipments in Jersey favor of imports if markets dictate Plains All Crude offloading at 130,000 Bakken, Expected October American Yorktown, Virginia, Niobrara, 2013 terminal Eagle Ford PBF Energy Crude rail offloading at 80,000 Bakken, Bakken and Operational; 182,200 bpd refinery in 24,000 Canadian Canadian; to expand to Delaware City, Delaware some of the 100,000 Bakken Bakken by end 2013, shipments to 80,000 Canadian eventually by end 2014 be barged to 160,000 bpd Paulsboro, New Jersey Philadelphia Crude by rail to 330,000 Currently Bakken Operational Energy Solutions bpd refinery in unloads about Philadelphia 57,000; by September will increase capacity to unload up to 160,000; plus another 14,200 via rail and barge combination Monroe Energy Crude by rail to 185,000 Can receive Bakken Barge shipments bpd refinery in Trainer, 35,000-40,000 operational Pennsylvania via barge once railed to Albany NY; plans to receive up to 75,000 bpd Buckeye Partners Albany, New York, terminal, 130,000 Bakken, in Operational crude and ethanol by rail partnership offloading, marine transfer with Irving Oil to deliver crude railed to Albany by barge to Irving Oil's 300,000 bpd St. John, New Brunswick refinery. Sunoco Logistics Eagle Point crude by rail 40,000 Bakken Operational Partners LP unloading; crude can be transferred to barges for delivery to East Coast refineries Enbridge Inc Eddystone Rail facility 80,000 by end Bakken First phase end near Philadelphia; crude 2013; to expand 2013, expansion railed from Enbridge's to 160,000 in 2014 Berthold, North Dakota, rail loading facility will be offloaded at Eddystone and transferred to barges for delivery to Philadelphia-area refineries Buckeye Partners Planning to add rail Not yet Bakken N/A LP offloading at terminal in determined Perth Amboy, New Jersey GULF COAST Company Name Project Capacity (bpd) Crude Status Kinder Morgan Offloading facility at the 210,000 Cushing Under Energy Partners Houston Ship Channel; will Oklahoma, construction, LP and allow Mercuria Energy West Texas, startup in Watco Companies Trading Inc to rail in Bakken, February 2014 LLC crude from various Canadian locations to ship to refiners via pipeline Plains All Offloading at St. James, 140,000 Niobrara Operational American Louisiana, terminal Plains All Loading at Gardendale, 25,000 Eagle Ford Operational American Texas Genesis Energy Loading at Wink, Texas 75,000 Permian Basin Startup fourth quarter 2013 Cetane Energy Loading in Carlsbad, New 70,000 Permian Basin Fall 2013 LLC and Murex Mexico LLC Rangeland Energy Loading near Loving, New N/A Permian Basin Startup at end Mexico, under construction, 2013 Genesis Energy Offloading in Walnut Hill, 75,000 Bakken, West Operational LP Florida, just east of Texas Mobile Bay Valero Crude railed from North 100,000 Bakken Operational Dakota to St. James, Louisiana, where it is transferred to the Capline Pipeline and transported north to 180,000 bpd Memphis, Tennessee, refinery Sunoco Logistics Offloading at Nederland, 21,500 Bakken Operational Texas, crude terminal Alon Energy Offloading at 80,000 bpd 6,000 Inland U.S, Operational refinery in Krotz Springs, type depends Louisiana on price Genesis Energy Offloading at Natchez, 43,000 Canadian Operational Mississippi terminal; adding 60 railcar spots to existing 40 in late 2013 NuStar Energy LP In talks with producers to N/A Canadian No announced expand crude by rail at St. plans yet James, Louisiana terminal NuStar Energy, Offloading at jointly owned 70,000 at Bakken First offloading EOG Resources terminal in St. James, each facility facility started Inc Louisiana, for area up in April refineries 2012, second under construction, operational by end 2013. Canadian Planned facility to offload 75,000, up to Canadian Early 2014 National Railway crude and backhaul 120 tank cars and Arc condensate at Port of per day Terminals Mobile, Alabama Petroplex Doing engineering and 70,000 Bakken, Operational in International design for bulk liquids Canadian 2014 LLC, head of a terminal facility on St. consortium James Parish, Louisiana, backed by that would include a crude Macquarie Group unit-train facility and others Valero Working on process to move N/A Canadian Some crude crude by rail to a already coming, third-party terminal, where amounts it can be loaded onto undisclosed; if barges to the 290,000 bpd project deemed refinery in Port Arthur, economical, can Texas be expanded Valero Plans to rail 20,000 bpd to 20,000 Canadian, End 2013 205,000 bpd St. Charles, with room to Louisiana refinery take some inland U.S. light-sweet Genesis Energy Rail offloading at Exxon N/A Bakken, Eagle Operational in Mobil Corp's Ford, second quarter Maryland terminal near its Canadian 2014 502,500 bpd refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana GT Logistics Rail offloading, then 100,000 Bakken Operational Omniport barged to refineries Terminal in Port Arthur Jefferson Crude offloading by Kansas 70,000 Eagle Ford, Startup late Refinery LLC City Southern at the Port Bakken, August, early of Beaumont's Orange County Canadian September 2013 Terminal, then barged to refineries Kansas City In talks with refiner N/A Canadian N/A Southern partners to develop rail offloading at crude terminal with dock in Port Arthur, Texas, to barge crude to refineries Kinder Morgan Battleground Oil Specialty 6,000 bpd N/A First phase to Energy Partners Terminal Company LLC initially start up in and (BOSTCO) diesel, residual third quarter TransMontaigne fuel and black oil terminal 2013, expansion Partners LP project that will include startup in rail unloading for 12 cars, fourth quarter expandable to 30 cars. 2014 EOG Resources Loading in Harwood, Texas Average 12,000 Eagle Ford Operational at 98 shipments of about 45,000 barrels per train in 2012 EOG Resources Loading in Barnhart, Texas Average 3,000 Permian Basin Operational at 24 shipments of about 45,000 barrels per train in 2012 NORTHERN TIER/MIDWEST Company Name Project Capacity (bpd) Crude Status Enbridge Berthold, North Dakota 120,000 Bakken Operational loading facilities Plains All Loading at Manitou and Van 65,000 at Bakken Operational; Van American Hook, N.D Manitou; 35,000 Hook to expand at Van Hook, to 65,000 bpd in to expand to second half of 65,000 in the 2013 second half of 2013 Musket Corp Loading at Musket's Dore, 60,000 Bakken Operational N.D., terminal. EOG Resources Stanley, N.D., loading 65,000 Bakken Operational terminal; Operated by Watco Services Hess Corp Tioga, N.D., rail terminal, More than Bakken Operational Watco-operated 60,000 Inergy COLT Hub in Epping, N.D. More than Bakken Operational 135,000 Dakota Plains New Town, N.D. 80,000 Bakken Operational Holdings Lario Logistics Bakken Oil Express 100,000 Bakken Operational expandable to 200,000 Savage Services Trenton, N.D. loading 90,000 Bakken Operational Great Northern Fryburg, N.D. loading 60,000 Bakken Operational Midstream LLC Global Basin LP, Columbus and Beulah, N.D., 160,000 Bakken Operational Basin Transload rail transloading LLC Northstar Loading in Fairview, 100,000 Bakken Operational Transloading Montana, to be operational in 1Q 2014 Delek U.S. Offloading at 80,000 25,000 light Inland U.S., Startup in early Holdings refinery in El Dorado, inland U.S. Canadian 2014 Arkansas crude or 12,000 Canadian, or a combination. Can also access 20,000 bpd of light crude offloading at a third-party facility adjacent to the refinery. HollyFrontier Loading and offloading near 70,000 West Texas Operational Corp , 105,000 bpd Artesia, New sour, West Mexico, refinery Texas Intermediate Canadian Marquis Energy Offloading at Hayti, 75,000, Bakken, Operational Missouri, terminal, then planning to Canadian barged south on the increase to Mississippi River to Gulf 150,000 by end Coast refineries 2013 Indigo Resources Loading at Osceola, 140,000 Bakken, Startup in late Arkansas, along the Canadian 2014 Mississippi River, to be barged to refineries SEACOR Holdings Offloading at Sauget, 65,000 Bakken, Operational Inc Illinois, Gateway Canadian Terminals, then barged to Gulf Coast refineries Savage Services Offering rail transloading N/A Utica, when Awaiting takers at the Ohio Commerce Center production in Lordstown, Ohio, which ramps up is undergoing expansion to accommodate unit train loading. ROCKY MOUNTAINS Company Name Project Capacity (bpd) Crude Status Plains All Loading facilities in Carr 15,000 at Carr, Niobrara Carr operating, American and Tampa, Colorado; to to expand to expansion slated for ship crude by rail to 30,000; 65,000 second half 2013; Bakersfield, California, at Tampa Tampa to be and St. James, Louisiana operational second half 2013 Musket Corp Loading at Musket terminal Initially Niobrara Operational in Windsor, Colorado 16,000 expandable to more than 30,000 Enersco Loading terminal in 60,000 Bakken, Manifest shipments Midstream LLC, Douglas, Wyoming expandable to Niobrara under way, subsidiary of 120,000 , unit-train Twin Eagle Canadian capability added by Resource March 2014 Management Eighty-Eight Oil Loading near Guernsey, Bakken, Operational LLC Wyoming, crude terminal, to Niobrara be operational in late 60,000 Canadian 2013. Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Cogent Energy Loading facility at granite Niobrara Operational by Solutions LLC Peak's Casper Logistics hub 80,000 October 2013 and Granite Peak near Caspar, Wyoming Development LLC Savage Services Offering loading at Price Unita Awaiting takers and Salt Lake City, Utah, 9,000 Basin terminals United Energy Ships crude from seven More than Bakken, Operational Trading loading sights in plays 68,000 Niobrara located in North Dakota, in the Canada, Colorado, Wyoming DJ Basin and Texas. and Powder River Basin, Eagle Ford shale and Permian Basin. Sources: Company filings, presentations and announcements; North Dakota Pipeline Authority (Reporting by Kristen Hays in Houston and Selam Gebrekidan in New York; Editing by Terry Wade and Jim Marshall)