Updates
March 3, 2016: update; very extensive update
February 6, 2016: I believe this case is PU-15-788 at the North Dakota Pubilc Utilities Commission site.
Original Post
- Badlands NGLs LLC, Denver, announced the "CLR deal" September 25, 2015
- neither the value of the contract with CLR nor the volume of ethane committed were disclosed
- the duration of the supply contract was also not disclosed
- however, Badlands did confirm that it has decided to expand the nameplate production capacity of the PE plant to a proposed 2 million tons/year (original plan: 1.53 million tons/year)
- new capacity based on discussions with North Dakota and Western Canadian NGL-sourced ethane feedstock suppliers
- licensing agreements with key technology partners were signed over the last several weeks
- precise timeline for project's completion not disclosed
- the plant was first announced in an October 13, 2014, press release
- at that time, the company had agreements with two strategic partners for the plant
- Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas SA, Madrid
- Vinmar Projects LLC, a subsidiary of Vinmar International Ltd., Houston
- final site selection was to have been made by end of 2014
- Badlands has signed a mutually binding, MOU with Vinmar; the latter to take 100% of PE output produced by the proposed project for 15 years
- as of October, 2014, the project required a capital investment of about $4 billion to complete
This is an artist's conception of the proposed plant, looking north from Dickinson: Williston would be to the north ("up" in the picture) and Watford City to the east (at the "right side" of the picture). There will be a row of trees planted around the site to help the facility blend in with the rest of North Dakota.
[In the far, upper right corner of the graphic, one can still see the "ball of dust."]
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An Aside
To give one an idea of what a $4 billion petrochemical plant might entail, this is an interesting story over at PennEnergy and Shell's plans for an ethane cracker facility in western Pennsylvania:
Shell Chemicals announced Tuesday that it will pay $69 million to relocate a western Pennsylvania water source that's currently on the site of the company's proposed ethane cracker plant.
The company said it's funding nearly all of the $72 million project in Beaver County, and the Center Township Water Authority will pick up the rest of the tab. The project will replace existing drinking wells and create a new water intake site and treatment facility for the authority.
Shell could end up using the water facilities if it moves forward with a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant at the former Horsehead Corp. site in Potter Township, but that amount would be less than 10 percent of the total water sold by the system.
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