Marine Dock

Crude by rail (CBR) shipments from North Dakota to West Coast destinations peaked in January 2015 at 170 Mb/d – falling since then to average 140 Mb/d in 2015, January through May. The vast majority of these shipments have moved to four refineries in Washington State – providing a cheaper alternative to the Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude staple these refineries have run for decades. There is big potential to expand CBR shipments to West Coast Ports and to California but building the infrastructure has proven painstakingly slow. Today we discuss the long term fate of West Coast CBR.

We estimate October 2014 Eagle Ford condensate production at 690 Mb/d and have identified 450 Mb/d of stabilization capacity that meets Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) standards to classify the processed output as OK for export. That should make it possible for an estimated 230 Mb/d of processed condensate to be exported from the Gulf Coast in 2015. All that is needed to open the floodgates are more transport routes to export docks. Today we describe current and future routes planned by Enterprise to get segregated processed condensate to market.