How Big Is The Bakken? Compare These Three Cryo Plants With Others Around the World -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Update

This is ONEOK's Stateline 1 natural gas processing plant northwest of Williston. It is being built by Linde and should be on-line sometime in 2012. ONEOK's Garden Creek cryo-natural gas processing plant northwest of Watford City came on-line in 2011.

Original Post

Tonight, while checking out some wells northwest of Williston, we ran into a industrial park under construction. The location is about 14 miles west of Williston on US 2, and then four miles north on the Grenora Road. It looks like it's about 80-160 acres in size, and it could be as much as 320 acres (one-half mile by one mile). The fences are up, top soil moved, stadium lights in place, and some initial pipeline in place, and that's about it. For an explanation from the company on what is going on, go to this link (a PDF file, and look at slides 79 - 91).


Linde Processing Plant Site Northwest of Williston: One of Three Such Sites in the Williston Area. Bakken, North Dakota, USA

There is no sign saying what is going up there, but there is this sign on one of the on-site modular buildings:

Linde Processing manufactures cryogenic gas processing plants. I don't follow that technology, so I don't know whether the sites in the Williston area are noteworthy or not. But, below is the list of the cryogenic processing plants Linde has completed since 1997. Note that in all locations there has only been on plant; in the Williston area there will be three. Note the size of the Williston plants: 100 MMscfd compared to 16 MMscfd in Texas; 6 MMscfd in Israel; and, 60 MMscfd in Los Angeles. Even where there are 100MMscfd plants, there is only one plant, but in the Williston area there will be three. In addition, the Bakken is known as a "oil" field, not a "natural gas" field. So here's the list:

2012 Stateline II, ND
100 MMscfd cryogenic
gas processing plant, incorporating LPP's
CRYO-PLUS™ technology.

2012 Stateline I, ND
100 MMscfd cryogenic
gas processing plant, incorporating LPP's
CRYO-PLUS™ technology.


2011 Williston, North Dakota
100 MMscfd cryogenic
gas processing plant, incorporating LPP's
CRYO-PLUS™ technology.


2010 Port Arthur, TX
16 MMscfd
Liquid Recovery Unit, incorporating LPP's
CRYO-PLUS™ technology.


2005 Haifa, Israel
6.2 MMscfd FCC Off-gas
Liquids Recovery Unit.

2001 Fort McMurray, Alberta
107 MMscfd ethylene recovery

2001 Bayway Refinery
Refining facility in Port of New York and New Jersey
Where the process was invented
48 MMscfd design for
ethylene recovery with full product
fractionation.

1997 Los Angeles, CA
63 MMscfd refinery off-gas
unit utilizing LPP's Cryo-Plus™ technology.