CP Railway shipping ND crude from new terminal

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has begun shipping rich Bakken crude to the Gulf Coast from a rail-loading facility under construction in western North Dakota.

Pasadena, Texas-based U.S. Development Group LLC is building the terminal near the ghost town of Van Hook in southern Mountrail County.

Canadian Pacific spokesman Ed Greenburg says the Calgary-based railroad has been moving small shipments of crude from the facility since last month.

North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad says the new terminal near Van Hook is the twelfth such facility to be built in North Dakota since 2008. Three other rail-loading facilities are planned in the oil patch.

Rail shipments account for about one-quarter of the more than 530,000 barrels of oil produced daily in North Dakota.

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