Savage announced in early January that it was adding crude oil transport via tank truck to its service offerings at terminals in the Uinta Basin and in the Williston Basin. With Savage’s capability for crude by rail transloading services, the addition of truck transportation enables the company to offer oil and gas companies a complete logistics solution from the wellhead to the refinery.
The Savage rail-served terminals in Trenton ND and Price and Salt Lake City UT provide access to rail transportation crude oil bound for key refinery markets. Truck transportation fills the gap of getting the crude from the well site to these transload terminals.
The Savage terminal in Price, UT is the first facility in the area to offer crude-by-rail origination services on the Union Pacific Railroad. The Savage terminal in Salt Lake City provides access to the Bingham & Garfield shortline. The Savage terminal in Trenton offers direct access to the BNSF mainline.
“We strive to offer our customers seamless logistics services,” says Kirk Aubry, president and chief operating officer for Savage. “Oil producers in the Uinta Basin and the Bakken need a better way to get crude to market. Savage has the infrastructure, equipment, and expertise to work with our customers to solve this problem.”
The Savage crude transportation terminals in Utah provide truck dispatch and transportation, rail car switching, railcar spotting, transloading, and car storage related to crude handling for rail transport. Today, in the Uinta Basin, Savage is equipped to truck over 50,000 barrels and transload over 70,000 barrels of crude each week. Current railcar loading is on a manifest basis with 25 car loading spots and storage for 120+ railcars. Savage has the ability to develop unit train capacity and tank storage should customers require that service. Services are available 24 hours per day, seven days a week, with flexible scheduling available to meet customer needs.
The Savage terminal in Trenton provides truck dispatch and transportation, unit train loading, single car transloading, and car storage for crude-by-rail shippers. Throughout the Williston Basin, Savage has the capacity to truck over 10,000 barrels per day today, and will add an additional 10,000 barrels per day capacity by February. The terminal can transload over 100,000 barrels of crude each day onto unit trains, with track capacity to hold up to two unit trains at the facility simultaneously and has storage capacity of over 50 rail cars for crude-by-rail shippers. Savage currently has six crude receiving truck bays and 290,000 barrels of tankage with expansions underway that will increase the capacity of tank storage, truck receiving and outbound unit train loading.