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Emergency crews worked into the night to extinguish the fire.
No one was injured.
Hess, the third-largest North Dakota oil producer, said BNSF is
leading cleanup efforts but added it stands ready to assist.
The New York-based company said it is "fully compliant" with new
North Dakota crude-treatment standards that went into effect
last month. The standards, designed to mitigate the incendiary
effect of crude-by-rail disasters, require combustible elements
be filtered out of crude oil.
It remains unclear whether the new standards helped reduce the
fire caused by the derailment, but politicians, first responders
and other witnesses described a subdued scene.
"The scene is very anticlimactic and rather nondramatic, which
is all very good," Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said in an
interview after leaving the site.
(Reporting by Kristen Hays and Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Ken
Wills)
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