Jeff Robertson
EPPING, N.D. – Crestwood Midstream Partners has loaded its 1,000th crude oil unit train at its COLT Hub in Epping, about 15 miles northeast of Williston. The facility began service in June 2012 with an original capacity to load 80,000 barrels per day, but now handles up to 160,000 barrels per day after undergoing two expansions.
We are pleased to announce this crude loading milestone at the COLT Hub,” says Bill Gautreaux, president of Crestwood’s Liquids and Crude Business Unit. “The COLT Hub is a major distribution point for crude oil produced in the Bakken.”
“North Dakota recently surpassed a major milestone of one million barrels of crude production per day,” says Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council. “In addition, the industry has proven that this amount of production can be moved to market efficiently. Rail has played a big role in those movements and is now making other value added energy projects possible.”
BNSF Railway serves the facility.
