After 2007, the application of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and horizontal drilling techniques led to rapid new development in the oil and natural gas (O&G) industries in many areas of Texas and in other shale formation areas across the United States. Between 2007 and 2014, an increasing demand for O&G products in a favorable market (high prices for Texas O&G products with favorable marginal prices compared to worldwide benchmarks) resulted in dramatically increased drilling activity and associated freight traffic on Texas roadways in energy production areas moving drilling equipment, fracking sand, water, and other energy-development-related freight. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), in Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)–sponsored research and in Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC) reports, has offered a thorough background on the recent O&G drilling activity in Texas and the effects of that activity on the condition and use of state and local roadway infrastructure. The policy project discussed in this report examined potential options regarding the use of rail and pipeline infrastructure to address the growing costs of roadway rehabilitation in the energy production areas of Texas.
Oil and Gas Freight Transportation Alternatives
2016
55 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Pipeline Transportation , Railroad Transportation , Transportation Safety , Transportation , Oil freight , Gas freight , Transportation alternatives , Texas (state) , Freight railroads , Freight pipelines , Energy development responses , Oil improvements , Gas improvements , Rail networks , Pipeline networks , State policy implications , Drilling activities , Energy production activities
NTIS | 1986
|TIBKAT | 1986
|NO. 1873 - Intermodal Freight Transportation; Freight Transportation Planning
Online Contents | 2004