Today, this story. Perhaps not another natural gas pipeline (yet) but a new refined products pipeline. Data points from The Dickinson Press:
- Cenex Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of CHS
- will build a 180-mile pipeline from Sidney, MT, to Minot, ND
- will carry refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel
- would replace a portion of an existing pipeline and add additional capacity
- needed to meet increased demand for refined fuels in the region
- back-of-the-envelope: 180 x 1 million = $180 million; Cenex estimates: $160 million
- pipeline will cross the Missouri River in Montana
- in North Dakota, will cross the Little Muddy, White Earth, Little Knife
- once all permits obtained, it will take about 18 months to complete
- entire Cenex Pipeline: Laurel, MT, to Fargo, ND
- most of the article was devoted to discussing how officials will work with Native Americans on this project
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Flashback
This was taken from an October 12, 2011, post:
The Bakken is the largest industrial park in the US -- not just the county. The entire Bakken is being defined as one huge industrial park; it is the second largest industrial park in North America -- the Canadian oil sands are #1.The Houston area would be a similarly huge industrial park but perhaps in total geographical area, the Bakken in the western one-third of North Dakota is hard to beat, in terms of area.
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