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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019417)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| On the Move |
| The amount of crude oil |
| transported by rail, road and |
| water skyrocketed in 2012. |
| 400 million barrels |
| 300- |
| 200 |
| 100 |
| *08 109 |
| 10 11. 12 |
| Source: Encegy Information Administratico |
| The Wall Street Jooral |
| U.S. oil production has reached its highest level in two decades, while imports have fallen dramatically. A system built to |
| import oil and deliver it to coastal refineries has become ill-equipped to handle rising production in Texas, North Dakota and |
| Canada's Alberta province. |
| "All of the pipes are pointed in the wrong direction," says Harold York, an oil researcher at Wood Mackenzie. "We are turning |
| the last 70 years of oil-industry history in North America on its head, and we are turning it on its head in the next 10 to 15 |
| years." |
| With oil prices persistently above $100 a barrel, companies drilling new wells don't want to forgo revenue while they wait |
| years for new pipelines. That leaves them with trucks, trains and barges to move an increasing amount of crude. |
| Oil delivered to refineries by trucks grew 38% from 2011 to 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, |
| while crude on barges grew 53% and rail deliveries quadrupled. Although alternatives are growing rapidly, pipelines and |
| oceangoing tankers remain the primary method for delivering crude to refineries. |
| In the Eagle Ford, a large four-year-old South Texas oil field, production has grown to more than 500,000 barrels a day, from |
| less than 1,000 in 2009, according to state statistics. Getting that torrent out of the sparsely populated region has required |
| modifications to the oil-delivery system. |
| For example, last year NuStar reversed a 16-inch pipeline built to carry crude imported from Africa and Europe northward |
| from the Port of Corpus Christi. Now, the pipeline flows south, taking delivery from hundreds of trucks that fill up at individual |
| wells. Some of the 175,000 barrels a day moving through the pipe is loaded onto barges at Corpus Christi and towed toward |
| refineries near Houston. |
| Earlier this year, Phillips 66 began putting some of this crude on ships for a 2,200-mile journey around Florida to its refinery |
| in Linden, N.J. |
| The heavy trucks moving Eagle Ford crude are causing headaches for residents and local officials, ripping up roads and |
| causing traffic tie-ups. |
| "These are rural roads built for 10 cars an hour, and now it's 100 vehicles an hour, and 75 of them are 80,000-pound trucks," |
| says Tom Voelkel, president of Dupre Logistics LLC. The Lafayette, La., company started hauling crude in Eagle Ford in |
| November 2011 and has more than 100 drivers full time in the region. |
| The Texas Legislature appropriated $450 million this year to repair and improve roads in oil-producing counties. "It doesn't |
| even begin to reach where it needs to reach," says Daryl Fowler, the chief elected county official in Cuero, Texas, about a |
| hundred miles southeast of San Antonio. |
| "We've seen a fourfold increase in congestion around here," he says. "The roads are crumbling." |
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