Robert Keach, the bankruptcy trustee in the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway case, is casting a wide net in an effort to reach into deep corporate pockets to create a fund to compensate victims and help pay the enormous costs related to the Lac-Megantic rail disaster in Quebec last year, the Bangor (Maine) Daily News reported today. In September, Keach asked a bankruptcy judge to order nine international companies to turn over all documents that discuss the sale of crude oil obtained from the Bakken Foundation in North Dakota, then shipped by truck and rail into and across Canada. The motion, granted yesterday by Bankruptcy Judge Louis Kornreich, compels ConocoPhillips, Shell Trading U.S. Co., Arrow Midstream Holdings LLC, Enersrco Energy LLC, InCorr Energy Group LLC, Marathon Oil Corp., Oasis Petroleum Inc. and QEP Resources Inc. to turn documents over to the trustee. Keach has asked for any and all communications between the companies to and from the World Services group that owned the oil that was being shipped when the train crashed. Those companies include World Fuel Services Corp.; World Fuel Services Inc.; Western Petroleum Co.; World Fuel Services, Canada, Inc.; and Petroleum Transport Solution Inc. Western Petroleum leased the train cars.
