"Anonymous" sent an incredibly informative comment to my posting regarding the natural gas processing plants going up west of Williston. It was too important to be left as a comment only, so here is the entire comment. I will add my thoughts at the bottom, later.
Linde will not be the owner of these plants: ONEOK Partnerships will be the owner and operator.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oneok-partners-to-invest-up-to-305-million-for-additional-growth-projects-in-the-bakken-shale-114304929.html
Linde does operate its own cryogenic plants for oxygen / nitrogen / argon etc, but, as a side business, also has a chemical engineering design/project group that provides chemical process design/construction business to the natural gas business. Pipeline companies like ONEOK rely on Linde and other E&C companies for those services.
Here's a list of nat gas plants Linde has designed, which are generally smaller type plants, not the huge scale plants seen mostly in Texas and Louisiana:
http://www.lppusa.com/international/web/le/us/likeleuslbpp30.nsf/repositorybyalias/lpp_naturalgas/$file/Natural%20Gas%20Experience%20List%20Yr-Loc-Des%20Only%2006-2011.pdf
Larger NG plants are not Linde's expertise (more appropriate for Fluor Daniel or some other large-scale chemical process design and construction firm).
Here's a synopsis of U.S. natural gas plants, which show that the new ND plants, while significant to the local economy, have relatively small capacity.
http://205.254.135.24/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/feature_articles/2010/ngpps2009/
My comments to be added later.
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