Contact Us
If you are interested in Altex’s transloading or logistics services please contact the Corporate & Business Development Department.
COLLEEN JOHANSEN
Chief Financial Officer
Sales@altex-energy.com
(403) 508-8636 or (877) 751-8343
BRITT OBUCK
Manager, Business Development
Sales@altex-energy.com
(403) 508-8636 or (877) 751-8343
What Does Altex Do?
Altex is a rail terminal and logistics company. We help move oil and other products from producers to consumers. Our goal is to ensure seamless interconnectivity along supply chains, particularly those supporting energy and energy transition industries.
A major portion of Altex’s unique product offering, which includes logistics and transloading services, is our ability to help customers build integrated multi-destination rail systems, connecting producers of crude oil and energy transition products from our terminal locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan to markets within the rest of Canada, the US Midwest, the US Gulf Coast, and other export markets.
Our rail expertise, knowledge of local and destination markets, and unit-train capability significantly enhances your service experience and improves market reach and economics for all Altex customers. In respect to movement of bitumen and crude oil, the market flexibility offered by moving through Altex cannot be easily achieved with conventional pipeline systems.
Altex manages most or all facets transporting bitumen and crude oil, as well as other products, from production sites to final destination markets. Our Service Delivery team members interface with trucking firms to get your oil or other products to our terminal. We interface daily with CN and other rail carriers to manage rail fleets in and out of our terminals all the way to destination and back.
“In short, we are a full-service transportation company. We work with trucking companies, railways, and other rail terminals to manage the entire rail movement so you don’t have to. That’s our business.”
How does the Altex Rail System compare to Pipelines?
We differentiate our solution from conventional pipelines in several ways: delivery to end markets for less cost, greater scalability, flexibility, speed of delivery, and unprecedented connectivity resulting in higher netbacks and cashflow for our users.
We believe our rail system offers a very significant market advantage. When you consider the costs of handling diluent to be part of the transportation cost of heavy oil, our system can deliver the heavy oil at a total less cost than the other conventional pipeline alternatives.
Our rail system of moving neat, undiluted bitumen is both economically superior and environmentally less risky than moving heavy crude by pipeline. Rail emits 2.7 times less GHG than a heavy crude pipeline built in the Alberta to Texas corridor.
How Do I Get Access?
Shippers arrange commercial contracts to use the rail system with Altex. The open access nature of the system ensures that all shippers have access to all facilities on a commercial basis. We have several types of facilities; some that are large, high speed, very sophisticated facilities to smaller direct truck to rail facilities. Shippers can contract for available capacity or Altex can build new facilities to suit.
Altex can negotiate directly with the rail carriers to provide an “all in” toll for use of the Altex rail system which includes: loading terminal fees, freight fees, logistics management, customs services and regulatory compliance.