New Pipeline Proposed -- From the Bakken to Clearbrook, Minnesota

Link here to Oil and Gas Journal.

Data points:

• Alexander, ND, to Clearbook, MN.
• 450 miles; 16-inch main pipeline
• To be built by Durango, CO - based Saddle Butte Pipeline LLC
• To be operated by High Prairie Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Saddle Butte Pipeline
• Two laterals proposed: a) 17 miles between Johnson's Corner, ND, and proposed new pipeline; and, b) 8 miles between Robinson Lake, ND, and the new pipeline.
• Capacity: 150,000 b/d
• Sources cite Bakken production to double to 1 million bbls by 2020

The Alexander terminus is going to be the western edge of main activity this summer.

Johnson's Corner is just east of Watford City, ND; a few miles southwest of the new ONEOK Garden Creek natural gas gathering and processing plant.

Except for Robinson Lake, which is in Mountrail County, these locations are all in McKenzie County, where I think the focus of Bakken activity will be in 2012.