New Refinery Proposed For North Dakota; West Of Devils Lake; $225 Million Project

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

Plans for an oil refinery in Devils Lake are exciting, but residents want information about the environmental consequences, especially in light of the lake's world-class fishery, Mayor Dick Johnson says.

American Energy Holdings, a Michigan-based company, announced plans to build a 20,000-barrel refinery on the west side of Devils Lake using crude from the Bakken oil patch.

Spokesman Mark Carlson said Wednesday the company is “ready to go” with the state’s first refinery east of the Missouri River to produce diesel, aviation fuel for the state’s two Air Force bases and naphtha, a hydrocarbon mixture from oil.

The $250 million plant will be called Bison Oil LLC and will depend on between 100 and 200 tanker truck loads daily out of the Bakken until it can get a pipeline in place, Carlson said.

A refinery project being considered for the reservation with the same capacity is conservatively estimated to cost about $450 million, $200 million more than the proposed Devils Lake project.

The MDU-Calumet refinery west of Dickinson is expected to be on-line sometime in 2014.

A third refinery, that one near Trenton, ND, is still in the planning stages. I haven't heard much about this refinery in a long, long time, and I think it was the first of the three that I had heard about when the boom first began in North Dakota (the three being the Trenton diesel refinery; the Dickinson/MDU-Calumet refinery; and the reservation refinery).