Tanker Carrying Bakken Oil to Canadian Refinery Runs Aground

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An oil tanker carrying Bakken crude to Irving Oil Corp.’s refinery in Canada from Albany, New York, ran aground yesterday in the Hudson River, delaying the first of what is expected to be many voyages on the route.

The 600-foot (183-meter) vessel Stena Primorsk returned to the Port of Albany today from an anchorage point near Stuyvesant, New York, said Richard Hendrick, general manager of the port, in a phone interview. Hendrick said the cargo of about