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Off track: Oil-by-rail sector mostly ignoring call for data, US officials say - Few oil-by-rail shippers have heeded calls for information to prevent dangerous mishaps on the tracks, the U.S. Department of Transportation said on Friday as it named the three companies it said have cooperated. Testing data has so far been tallied from ExxonMobil, Continental Resources Inc. and Savage Companies, the agency said. Several other companies on Friday said that they would respond or had given data to DOT officials in North Dakota. “We have shared it with their people in the field, voluntarily,” said John Roper, spokesman for Hess Corp. ExxonMobil gave the DOT 15 samples in mid-April, Savage gave 12 in late February and Continental provided one in mid-March, according to a chart on the DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s website.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 18:00:21 +0000

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