Updates
June 29, 2012: Stark County approves rezoning for the new Dickinson refinery.
Original Post
Link here to Bismarck Tribune.North Dakota consumes 1.5 million gallons of diesel/day; up 70 percent in past five years -- not just oil industry, but farming industry.
Data points:
Three Affilitated Tribes oil refinery
- June 1, 2012, update here
- on the Fort Berthold reservation
- --> diesel
- 15,000 bbl/day
- it actually has a permit....from.... the ....drum roll ... EPA
- furthest along of the three proposed refineries
- it has been "in the works" for eight (8) years
- [way down in the article, this little, "oh by the way" -- waiting for final clearance from the EPA -- who wudda thought? it turns out some of the local residents appealed the EPA permit when the tribe changed source of oil from Canadian oil to Bakken oil; permit is now being re-evaluated; don't hold your breath]
- financing to pay over 20 years; now asking whether it will be a "money maker" -- after eight years of working on this -- I guess it's as good a time as ever to ask whether the refinery will make money
- Website here; includes a Fact Sheet; suggests breaking ground in 2012; operational late 2013;
- --> diesel
- 20,000 bbl/day
- near Trenton, southwest of Williston
- a close second to TAT oil refinery; has air quality permit from health department [with the TAT permit held up by appeal, DOP may be first of the three]
- needs water treatment permit
- hopes to break ground this summer; be on line by end of next year (2013)
- $200 million project
- 100 workers to build it; 40 - 50 temporary housing units
- update, June 28, 2016: $430 million; way over budget; MDU buys Calumet's 50% stake on June 27, 2016, and then announces sale of entire refinery to Tesoro on June 28, 2016; sold for $10 million cash and transferring $66 million in debt
- update, June 29, 2012: zoning approved; 274 acres; $325 million; 100 employees when operational;
- update, May 16, 2012; open mtg; scouted a 200-acre plot of land about five miles southwest of Dickinson on 116th Avenue Southwest.
- early planning stages
- near Richardton / Dickinson (don't hold your breath, especially if it means lots of men living together)
- along the BNSF railway
- $250 million for a modular unit; $410 million for a "stick built" project
- 20,000 bbl/day
- only state permits will be required
- increasing capacity by 10,000 bbls to 68,000 bbls/day
