Thursday, February 9, 2012

Update on Diesel Refinery Southwest of Williston -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here to Oil and Gas Journal.

This story seems to be a bit dated. I blogged about it quite some time ago.
Dakota Oil Processing LLC, Williston, ND, is seeking financing and permits to build a $200 million, 20,000 b/d topping refinery in Williams County 16 miles southwest of Williston to produce mainly diesel to support the Bakken oil play and other local markets. [Trenton, North Dakota]

A 2011 design study indicates that the project would involve a 20,000 b/d atmospheric tower distillation unit and associated boilers, desalters, and other equipment, an 8,000 b/d distillate hydrotreater and associated hydrogen generator for producing ultralow sulfur diesel, a naphtha stabilizer, 667,500-bbl of tankage, and related facilities.

Two middle distillate products, kerosene and diesel, are to be blended to maximize the production of diesel fuel, the primary product for which the plant is designed. At capacity the plant could produce as much as 8,000 b/d a day of ultralow-sulfur diesel.
I would have expected a story on ground-breaking by now.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:00 PM

    Newfield not happy about WB well cost data from industry. Listen to presentation at Credit Suisse.

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    1. Bruce OksolFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:23 PM

      Newfield is still complaining!?!?

      Newfield complained about the cost of a well in the Williston Basin in the 3Q11 conference call.

      I blogged about that several times; you can find where I blogged about it, by searching for "wringing" on this blog.

      One example:

      http://milliondollarway.blogspot.com/2012/01/drillingcompletion-costs-of-typical.html

      Newfield is wringing its hands over the cost of completing a well in the Williston Basin. They guys seem to forget that the cost is generally for a long lateral; in the very beginning, operators were doing short laterals only and I tend to forget, and am probably wrong, but I believe today's long lateral cost is not much worse than what it cost to drill two short laterals in the past. Whiting seems to be doing very well, regarding cost.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2012 at 11:23 PM

    Waterflood using hz injection wells. See diagram.

    http://www.surgeenergy.ca/en/documents/presentations/scotia_tight_oil_waterflood_presentation_final_for_printing.pdf

    Paterson UTI - "We can't inventory 50 different kinds of sand." Interesting sand discussion at Credit Suisse cf. (At end of Q&A.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTYjVGGvW0

    You have mentioned this.

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    1. Bruce OksolFebruary 10, 2012 at 6:52 AM

      Thank you. I enjoyed both of the comments/links you sent this a.m. They have been reposted as stand-alone posts.

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