Tank Trailers in Eagle Ford hauling crude

Oakville, Ontario – March 17, 2021, Oil tank trailers are used to truck crude oil in the Texas Eagle Ford to existing established pipelines or rail facilities due to pipeline construction in the Eagle Ford can take a long time to construct connections at the gathering pipelines. Eagle Ford Region in Texas it was discovered in 2008 as a natural gas play, but crude oil quickly became a more sought-after commodity after the 2008-09 economic downturn. The Eagle Ford is the most mature tight oil play in the Lower 48 current, oil and natural gas production of 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day making it ideal for oil tanker trailers to haul crude oil. Measuring 400 miles long and 50 miles wide along the Texas Gulf Coast, the Eagle Ford basin is spread over 12,000 square miles in South and central Texas.

Oil and refined products in the Eagle Ford can be transported by tank trailer twice throughout the crude oil supply chain: first upstream from wells to refineries, and then downstream from a refinery to the market. The Eagle Ford has about 22 thousand oil wells the area making it an ideal market for transportation companies that that operate tank trailers to offer crude oil hauling services. The amount of crude oil an average tank trailer can transport in Texas is between 200-250 barrels of oil per movement making it an ideal solution for wellhead locations transportation.

EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) is one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in North America and one of the top oil & gas operators in the Eagle Ford. The Eagle Ford continues to deliver consistent performance quarter after quarter for EOG. This world-class oil asset representing a significant part of the 434,000boe of production. EOG resources will transport as much as 20% of the crude oil produced in the Eagle Ford by tank trailers.

EOG Resources’ geographic focus supports the use of tanker trailers to haul crude oil while they build additional infrastructure like rail & pipelines. In recent years EOG focus has been on exploiting shale plays in the US. The independent oil and gas company is engaged in exploring for natural gas and crude oil and developing, producing, and marketing those resources. EOG had total reserves of 3.329 billion barrels of oil equivalents. Approximately 51% of this was crude oil, 22% was natural gas liquids, and 27% was natural gas.

Additional Operators in the Eagle Ford that employ tanker trailers to haul crude oil include Conocophillips, Marathon Oil, BPX, Callon Petroleum and Penn Virginia Oil.