Update On Badlands NGLs -- June 21, 2016

For now I track the Badlands NGLs story here.

A reader has sent me a link updating the progress on this initiative; the presentation is dated May 24, 2016, and is a that the link above.

I do not know if the project has made any progress since the last update.

From The Bakken Magazine last September (2015):

North Dakota’s top oil producer—Continental Resources Inc.—has signed a long-term agreement to supply ethane to a proposed $6.5 billion polyethylene plant that Badlands NGL plans to build in the state.

“The interesting thing is that the Continental announcement is leading to very serious dialogues with other producers in North Dakota,” William Gilliam, Badlands CEO, told The Bakken magazine. “We are also pursuing very serious discussions in Canada.”

He cited a recent report by the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) which said Canada could produce 350,000 barrels of ethane per day. Gilliam noted that he will be in Alberta this week for meetings with potential ethane suppliers.

“We’re actually looking at building a bigger ethane cracker in North Dakota because of the fact that we think we can be successful in gaining an important amount of ethane from Canada,” Gilliam said.

From Business Wire, last October:

Badlands NGLs, LLC and Univation Technologies, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company today announced that Badlands has licensed Univation Technologies’ UNIPOL™ PE Process for four polyethylene reactor lines, representing a total capacity of 2.4 million metric tons.

The capacity is to be split between its two sites, one in North Dakota and one in a yet-to-be-named site also in North America.

Each site will be home to two world-scale 600kta reactor lines; Badlands has indicated a potential need for future expansion. The production lines will use Univation’s LLDPE and HDPE catalysts including the proprietary PRODIGY™ Bimodal HDPE, ACCLAIM™ Unimodal HDPE, and XCAT™ Metallocene LLDPE catalysts.