Millions of Gallons of Diesel Fuel Being Used in the Bakken

Link to Minot Daily Press here (regional links break early and break often).

As of April 23, 210 drilling rigs were operating in the North Dakota oil field ... 

"That's 630,000 gallons of diesel fuel a day that are just going in for operating the drilling rigs. That's not everything else that's going on up there," ...

"We believe from what our marketers can tell us and these aren't solid statistics but this is information we've gathered from visiting with our marketers that 2.5 to 3 million total gallons per day is being consumed in the Bakken. So you can see we experience some diesel fuel crunch now and then.

Essentially, that's 280 semi loads a day that's just going in to feed the Bakken," ...

If you put that into perspective, Tesoro (Mandan Refinery) can produce if it really pushes it about 750,000 gallons of diesel fuel a day. So everything Tesoro is making could essentially be going into the Bakken," ...

The link will provide additional background and source of statistics.