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February 20, 2019

Portland terminal grows to allow more oil trains

  • Three new rail platforms will nearly quadruple the site's previous capacity for offloading oil.
    • By TONY SCHICK
    Oregon Public Broadcasting

    PORTLAND — A Portland petroleum terminal is significantly expanding its capacity to unload rail cars, a move that sets the stage to more than double the number of oil trains along the Columbia and Willamette rivers into Oregon's biggest city, OPB has learned.

    Zenith Energy, sandwiched between the river and Forest Park in the city's northwest industrial district, began receiving train shipments of crude from Canada's oil sands last year, records show, which it stored in tanks and later pumped onto ocean-going vessels.


     
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