Basin Transload, LLC
Beulah Facility
Basin Transload, LLC operates a rail transloading facility in Beulah, ND to support the crude oil
production efforts in the Williston Basin. The site currently receives rail cars of frac sand used in
fracturing the crude oil wells. The sand is offloaded into trucks and delivered to the well sites. Each well
can take an average of 40 truckloads of frac sand to complete. The site also brings in truckloads of crude
oil and transfers on tank cars to be shipped to various crude markets. Basin Transload currently moves
approximately 40 cars per week, with projected volume of over 90 cars by mid 2010.
The Basin Transload site at Beulah has many opportunities for growth in the near future. The site has
the capability to build a unit train loading facility. A unit train typically includes about 96 cars and can
transport about 60,000bbl per train. The site would be capable of loading 3 or 4 trains per week or
about 30,000bbls per day. Other opportunities include increasing the frac sand volume, natural gas
liquids, pipe, and other commodities relative to the production of the Williston Basin. As drilling activity
increases so does the need for transportation of drilling supplies in and oil production to market.