Albany Nears Oil-Hub Status as 100-Car Trains Jam Port

Albany, New York’s capital city, may join the ranks of U.S. energy hubs such as Houston and Cushing, Oklahoma, as oil-terminal operator Global Partners LP pushes an expansion plan after already quadrupling its capacity.

For the last two years, more oil from the Bakken shale formation has rolled 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) by rail across North Dakota and around the Great Lakes to Albany. There, companies including Global Partners and Buckeye Partners LP load barges bound for New Jersey and New Brunswick refineries.