US-based service provider Savage Companies has unveiled plans to construct, own and operate a multi-user rail terminal at Trenton in North Dakota, US.
The terminal, to be known as Trenton Railport, will be served by the BNSF Railway.
It will be designed to bring large-scale rail services to the Bakken Formation with oil field-related materials such as tubular, frac sand and other strategic materials, including the capability to load and ship unit trains of crude oil.
The 270-acre site on which the Trenton Railport will be built was secured by Savage in cooperation with Yellowstone Ethanol.
Savage has begun first-level engineering, design and permitting studies, and anticipates that construction will begin later this year, with completion expected by late 2011.
The rail terminal facilities will include rail infrastructure, open space for oil field materials storage, and receiving capability for frac sand and other materials.
