Did This Article Forget About The Dickinson Calumet-MDU Diesel Topping Plant ...

... or is the diesel topping plant not considered a refinery. According to MDU's 3Q13 earnings press release, the Calument-MDU diesel topping plant construction is on schedule.

In this article, this plant is not mentioned. The Minot Daily News is reporting:

A crew with heavy equipment began moving dirt this past weekend near Makoti for the construction of the transload facility, the first part of the Three Affiliated Tribes' clean fuels refinery project.

Glenda Baker Embry, public relations officer for the tribes, who visited the site Tuesday, said nine employees with Parks Construction, a Minneapolis firm, began the grading work at the site 2 1/2 miles west of Makoti on Saturday.

The construction of the transload facility is the first part of the tribal refinery project.

Costs for the refinery are conservatively estimated at $450 million, according to the article.

Later, in the article;

The refinery is conservatively estimated and projected to cost $450 million, according to tribal officials at the ground-breaking event.

The plans are for the refinery to refine Bakken Formation crude oil into diesel fuel, propane and naphtha products at the site in southwest Ward County, where the Three Affiliated Tribes own 469 acres of land. A portion of the land is specifically for the refinery. Some of the land will be used for feed for the tribes' bison.

The refinery will be one of the first refineries built in the United States in many years. The last refinery built in the U.S. was built in Garyville, La., and began operating in 1976.

The state has one refinery, the Tesoro Corp., in Mandan. Two other refinery projects have been proposed in North Dakota.

The two projects I am aware of:

• Calumet-MDU, southwest Dickinson (noted at the beginning of this post
• a diesel topping plant at Trenton