Two New Natural Gas Plants to Come On-Line Soon -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Two new natural gas processing plants soon to open:

• Saddle Butte Pipeline LLC gas plant, seven miles south of Watford City, ND; on-line May, 2011
• Hilland Partners LP gas plant, near Cartwright, ND; on-line 4Q11

Saddle Butte/Watford City plant

• Phase I capacity: 25 million cubic feet per day
• Phase II expansion: an additional 35 million cfd --> 60 million cfd total

Hiland Partners/Cartwright plant

• Phase I capacity: 30 million cfd
• Phase II expansion: an additional 55 million cfd --> 85 million cfd total

North Dakota currently produces about 350 million cfd of natural gas. With these two new plants and others in the region one would think that "we" are getting close to processing much (most?) of the natural gas being produced in the Bakken, except for the issue of pipeline infrastructure. 

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