HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hart Energy has published "Riding The Rails," a 60-page supplement covering the rapidly expanding infrastructure to deliver crude oil from producing regions to refineries across North America. The special supplement will be distributed free to subscribers of Hart Energy's Midstream Business and Oil & Gas Investor magazines; to download a PDF version, please visit crudeinmotion.com/ridingtherails.
The crude-by-rail (CBR) phenomenon began as a means to move "stranded" Bakken shale oil from North Dakota past the pipeline bottleneck in Cushing, Oklahoma. Now CBR has become a much larger and growing transportation solution for many North American unconventional oil producers as it provides flexibility in reaching higher-value end-use markets.
Matt Rose, chairman and CEO of BNSF Railway Co., told Midstream Business, "In the modern era of railroading, there have been several major changes …(which) took a decade or more of planning and investment to develop. With CBR, I have never seen a business go from zero to 60 so fast."
Hart Energy will host in-depth discussions of rapidly changing crude-by-rail capabilities, new short-line connections in the Eagle Ford play, and financial aspects of multi-modal crude transport options at its new Crude In Motion conference October 30, 2013, at the Omni Hotel in Houston, Texas. Featured speakers at the conference include:
• Mike Howard, CEO, Howard Energy Partners
• Evan Calio, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
• Christopher Keena, President and CEO, Rangeland Energy
• Steve Huckaby, CEO, Meritage Midstream
• Arthur J. "A.J." Brass, President, Isis Energy and GCAC Trading
• Ryan Fischer, Asst. VP, Emerging Markets, Marathon Oil Company
About Hart Energy
For nearly 40 years, Hart Energy has delivered market-leading insights to the global energy industry. The Houston-based company produces monthly magazines (such as Oil and Gas Investor, E &P and Midstream Business); online media and data services; conferences (including the Developing Unconventionals [DUG™] series); and GIS data sets and mapping solutions. Its analysts and experts provide research and consulting services, including the North American Shale Quarterly research platform, whose production and midstream forecasts are relied on by producers and investors using the Bloomberg Tradebook platform. For more information, visit hartenergy.com.