[Vision2020] Highway 12 Cargo

[Ron Force]

The equipment in Lewiston is bound for a Conoco-Phillips refinery in Billings. The Alberta oilfield equipment doesn't arrive until fall.

Ron Force
Moscow ID USA

Refinery equipment to travel from ID to Billings
Posted: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:00 am   | 


BILLINGS (AP) — Two enormous truckloads of equipment needed for
an upgrade at the ConocoPhillips refinery in Billings are expected
to hit the road next month, company officials said.
The cylindrical steel drums that will replace aging drums inside
the refinery’s coker unit have been sitting in Lewiston, Idaho,
since mid-May. They were manufactured in Japan, shipped to the
United States and brought up the Columbia River by barge.
The drums are in two pieces. The first load of two large trucks is
expected to hit the road after July 4. The second load is expected
to make the three-week, 700-mile trip in September, said Bill
Stephens, ConocoPhillips spokesman.
Each truckload will be 225 feet long, 29 feet wide and 26 feet high
and weigh 300 tons, Stephens said.
ConocoPhillips and Emmert International, the company in charge of
trucking the components, “are close to buttoning up” a few
remaining details with the departments of transportation in Montana
and Idaho, Stephens said.

The trucks will travel at night, mostly on back roads to avoid
freeway overpasses and will travel no faster than 35 mph, Stephens
said. The project requires the temporary relocation of about 800
utility lines.
“It’s required a tremendous amount of planning,” he said.

From Lewiston, Idaho, the trucks will enter Montana over Lolo Pass
on U.S. Highway 12, follow Interstate 90 and secondary roads to
Garrison, then take U.S. 12 through Helena to Harlowton. The trucks
will travel north on U.S. 191 to Lewistown and continue through the
small towns of Hilger and Roy before turning south and traveling
through Grass Range and Roundup on U.S. 87.
From Roundup, the trucks will go back west on U.S. 12 and Highway 3
and travel south into Billings.
In Billings, the drums will be used in a $50 million upgrade of the
coker unit, which applies heat and pressure to heavier components
of crude oil, converting them into more useful products.

The ConocoPhillips project is dwarfed by a plan to haul 200 huge
loads of equipment from the Port of Lewiston through northwestern
Montana to an oil sands operation in the Canadian province of
Alberta.
Imperial Oil, whose parent company is ExxonMobil Canada, hopes to
begin moving the equipment in October. The loads will weigh up to
150 tons each.




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From: Sam Scripter <MoscowSam at charter.net>
To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 11:49:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Highway 12 Cargo

 
Tom . . .

Did you write, below, what you intended?

If yes, then I have these questions, which apparently are to be
answered by Mr. Carpenter:

If the cargo items currently stored at the Port of Lewiston are not
destined to travel
US-12 to Montana, then WHERE are they going?????  Why are they at the
Port?
 
There was a very large ad, I think in the Tribune, a few days ago,
explaining the
upcoming hauling from Lewiston to the Montana State Line.  As I recall,
there 
were to be two times, ONLY.

I assumed the items to be transported are those stored at the port, of
which you took
photos.

I don't get the apparent mix up with what you say Carpenter said.

Do you?

Sam Scripter

Tom Hansen wrote: 
Greetings Visionaires -
>
>I contacted Jim Carpenter of the Idaho Transportation Department who
>advised me that, although those cargo items currently stored at the Port
>of Lewiston are not the same type of cargo items to be transported on
>Highway 12, they are extremely similar in size.
>
>I then called Dave Duhrnsfeld (or something like that) of the Port of
>Lewiston to identify exactly where, at the Port, these items are located.
>
>I grabbed my cameras, drove to the Port of Lewiston, and photographed . . .
>
>http://www.MoscowCares.com/Highway12/SimilarCargo.htm
>
>Seeya at the meeting, Moscow.
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
>and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
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