Supporting
Continued Growth
BNSF is playing an important role in helping the U.S. and North America replace overseas crude oil with fuels being produced
from the continent’s vast oil reserves. Rail offers oil producers a more flexible transportation option and gives refiners easy
access to premium, domestic fuels.
BNSF helped pioneer the modern day crude-by-rail option when the first crude oil unit train left Stanley, N.D. in December 2009.
Today, the overwhelming majority of crude oil produced in the Williston Basin is transported by rail. BNSF moved 225 million
barrels of crude in 2013 and is ready to meet growing demand in the years ahead.
In 2013 alone, we invested approximately $900 million to improve and expand rail capacity along the Northern Corridor, which
spans the northern U.S. between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago, connecting vital regions to Midwest and Eastern markets.
This expanded capacity will help improve traffic flow for all freight and passenger trains on those routes.
