Video of the Originating Site for the Enbridge Bakken Expansion Project -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Update

Video of the originating site for the Enbridge Bakken Expansion Pipeline Project was taken today. This is at Beaver Lodge, North Dakota, about eight miles south of Tioga, North Dakota. (For newbies, Beaver Lodge oil field was where oil was discovered in North Dakota in 1951 -- the Clarence Iverson well.)

Origination Site for the Bakken Expansion Project, Beaver Lodge Terminal  
Description of the project:

Enbridge's Bakken Expansion Program will involve U.S. projects which will be undertaken by EEP at a cost of approximately US$370 million; and Canadian projects which will be undertaken by EIF at a cost of approximately Cdn $190 million.

The expansion program will originate at Beaver Lodge, North Dakota, in the heart of the Bakken, and will follow existing EEP and EIF rights of way to terminate at and deliver to the Enbridge mainline terminal at Cromer, Manitoba.

Once on the Enbridge mainline, Bakken production will have access to the multiple markets accessible from the mainline and connected pipeline systems.

Still photos of the same (click on the third photo below and enlarge it to see the complex from a distance):

Original Was Posted July 9, 2011

Link here (regional link will break soon).

Personalities:

• Kesley Myhre, Enbridge spokesperson
• Justin Kringstad, Director, North Dakota Pipeline Authority

North Dakota Pipeline Authority, mission:

The North Dakota Pipeline Authority works with the companies to help them understand the oil play, as well as offer support through the state and federal government. The North Dakota Pipeline Authority is a state agency that started in 2007.

Current status: three major options for pipelines in the Bakken

• Enbridge system: 210,000 bbls/day
• Tesoro pipeline: 58,000 bbls/day 
• Butte Pipeline: 118,000 bbls from eastern Montana to Wyoming

Currently, maybe 60,000 to 70,000 bopd transported by rail

Four additional projects being proposed or underway:

• TransCanada Bakken MarketLine: expected to start mid- to late-2013; 100,000 bopd from Williston Basin to major hubs in Oklahoma and Texas
• True Company 'Baker 300': 118,000 bopd now; by the end of 2011, that oil flow will increase to 150,000 bopd; and in 2012, increase to 200,000 bopd
• Plains Bakken: will ship up to 75,000 bopd from western North Dakota (100 miles from Trenton) to an existing pipeline along the Canadian and Montana border
• Enbridge Bakken Expansion Program: currently shipping 210,000 bopd; by the end of 2013, the company expects to add another 120,000 bopd capacity

Enbridge projects under construction:

• The Beaver Lodge Loop project: loop an existing pipeline or place another pipeline adjacent ot existing pipeline system; from Enbridge's Beaver Lodge Station through Stanley to Berthold Station
• The Bakken Expansion Project: replace 11 miles of a newly reactivated pipeline, from Berthold to the Canadian border; a new pump station at Lignite, ND, and a new pump station at Kenaston, ND; cost o the US side is $370 million; the expansion work on the Canadian side is $190 million