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This is new development. Now seems all the local

refineries want in on the oil trains. Right now only

one refinery in Anacortes is equipped and recieving

oil trains. With an additional Anacortes refinery getting

equipped plus the 2-3 refineries up in Whatcom county

getting equipped for oil trains, the BNSF Bham Sub

is going to be one busy line combined with 9 each-way

a day coal trains if a coal-port gets built at Cherry Point.

Until that dream comes true, there are going to be enough

oil trains (ironically the same size as a coal train) moving

through each day.

2 state refineries plan to take N. Dakota oil

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130629/NEWS03/706299911/0/SEARCH



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Lookin' at the big picture, energy demand, it seems it just keeps growing, while supplies barely keep up! maybe a year and a half ago the big stink was over coal trains outa Cherry Point. Everybody was up in arms over building an export facility there.

Now it's oil. Environmentalists drive cars ta the rallies against coal, and now it'll be protesting expansion of the refineries, or the increasing number of trains!

The Cherry Point Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Washington. It is located about 7 mi (11 km) south of Blaine and 8 mi (13 km) miles northwest of Ferndale,[1] a few miles south of the Canadian border, on the Strait of Georgia between Birch Bay and Lummi Bay. It is the fourth largest refinery on the West Coast and 28th largest in the U.S.[2] The plant was constructed in 1971 with an original capacity of about 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3). It currently processes over 225,000 barrels (35,800 m3) of petroleum (crude oil) per day, with 90% becoming gasoline, diesel or jet fuel.[3] The facility is owned by BP. It covers about 3,300 acres (1,300 ha).[4]

Most of Cherry Point's crude oil is from the Alaska North Slope. It is brought in by petroleum tankers via the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait and delivered directly to the refinery via the facility's tanker pier near a minor headland called Cherry Point, on the Strait of Georgia.[5][6] The remainder of the crude comes from a pipeline connected to reserves in Western Canada. The refinery is currently constructing a rail facility to import Bakken crude from North Dakota.[7]

The gasoline and diesel are primarily shipped to filling stations in Washington and Oregon via the Olympic Pipeline and over-the-road fuel trucks. Jet fuel from Cherry Point Refinery accounts for 85% of the fuel used by the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.[8] Significant quantities of calcined coke are also produced and shipped to the nearby ALCOA aluminum smelter.

Originally an Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) facility when it opened in 1971, the refinery became a BP operation in January 2002. BP acquired ARCO in April 2000. [1]

 



-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 5th of September 2013 10:11:54 PM

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Sure hope BP has contingency plans "just in case..." The Gulf of Mexico mess ain't all cleaned up yet, and now they're all hot to expand Cherry Point.

I'll keep my fingers crossed again... Big Oil. They've gotten the new guv's blessing!

 

Cherry Point, Wash.

BP's Cherry Point Refinery has quietly provided a significant portion of US energy needs for more than 40 years. Now it's being positioned to meet the challenges of a diverse and rapidly changing energy market. 

Since it started operations in 1971, Cherry Point has processed a large share of Alaska's North Slope crude oil. A refining workhorse, Cherry Point became one of BP's premier US assets following the merger with ARCO in 2000. 

Situated on 2,400 acres and employing about 875 full-time employees, the facility processes approximately 230,000 barrels of crude oil a day, primarily transportation fuels. It provides about 20 percent of the gasoline market in Washington and Oregon, the majority of jet fuel for Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC international airports, and is the largest West Coast supplier of jet fuel to the US military.



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