Wednesday Morning Links

Sent in by a reader. Great presentation, a must-read for anyone interested in the Williston Basin oil patch. I can't remember posting this before, though it's possible; I don't remember seeing it before. I have always said Whiting has some of the best presentations, and this is another example. Go the Whiting home page for presentations, and then click on the November 19, 2012, presentation: Discovery of Pronghorn and Lewis & Clark Fields.That will take you to a PDF, and a moment to download. A lot of information about the entire development of the Williston Basin with regard to the current boom. This is really a great presentation.

Baker Hughes pays for stoplights at new development, from The Dickinson Press.

When traveling on Highway 22 north of Dickinson, be prepared to stop in the coming weeks.

California-based Baker Hughes is paying more than $300,000 for traffic signals at the intersection leading into its facility, according to an agreement with the city of Dickinson.

“... a new bulk plant with double truck loading to improve delivery to location times and offers the latest technology for quicker and more consistent blends,” ....

RBN Energy:  east coast NGL storage.

Some dots to connect later today:

• the recent RBN energy stories regarding crude oil pipelines
• ONEOK's failure to get commitments for a proposed Bakken Crude Oil Express pipeline
• Delta Airlines refinery near Philadelphia
• the recent story out of Tacoma, Washington -- first unit train bringing Bakken oil to that particular port
• killing of the Keystone XL
• Enbridge strategic business plan 
• Cushing: glut, mixing, location

Comment that a reader sent in regarding ONEOK's failure:

The problem with this pipeline seemed two fold:

The quality of Bakken crude is so high - premium crude for refining - that the premium is lost after mixing. A pipeline to the Gulf Coast from Cushing has to be dedicated to maintain that premium, and there are few Cushing outlet pipelines sized for that rate.

The pipeline doesn't go to an end user location, and maintain integrity, without additional modes of transport.

For that matter, mixing Bakken crude with Canadian oil sand has th same loss of quality issue.