TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – The oil boom in the Great Plains states is affecting refineries and a port in Washington.
 Trains from North Dakota and Montana are delivering crude oil to the U.S. Oil and Refining Company refinery in Tacoma and the Tesoro refinery
near Anacortes. BP has applied for permits for a rail yard at its
Cherry Point refinery north of Bellingham.
     The refineries still process crude oil from Alaska, but it’s
production is declining.
Two companies want to export crude oil from the Port of Grays Harbor on
the Washington coast. The oil would be shipped to West Coast
refineries and possibly Asia.