Two North Dakota Pipeline Projects Move Forward -- March 23, 2016

Two North Dakota pipeline projects move forward. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

• Oasis Midstream
• 18.3 mile
• origin: Wild Basin Gas Processing and Crude Handling Facility
• terminus: Tesoro Johnsons Corner Station, 2.8 miles east of Johnsons Corner
• from there: a 0.9 mile lateral line to the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline's Johnsons Corner Terminal
• 75,000 bopd
• three above-ground storage units at the Wild Basin facility
• $13 million; construction to begin April, 2016; take about four months
• ONEOK Pipeline
• 38 mile
• Dunn/McKenzie counties
• origin: ONEOK Bear Creek Plant (Dunn County), northwest
• connect with: ONEOK's existing Targa Pipeline east of US Highway 85, McKenzie County
• 14,000 bbls NGLs -- will leave the state
• $45 million; construction to begin this spring; to be completed by end of August, 2016 
• I'm not sure, but I think the route of this pipeline can be seen at the map at this link (the upper graphic at that post) 

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Minuscule

Among other things I spent the early afternoon correcting the spelling of the word "minuscule" on the blog. I was amazed how many times over the past seven years I have misspelled that word. About fifteen minutes after that project, I started reading an article in this week's issue of The New York Review of Books. And wouldn't you know, there on page 63, in an article about Stephen Spender:

... a few days later after he'd left with [W.H.] Auden a new poem and a diary entry about walking along the banks of the River Wye with Marston, Stephen received back a short note in Auden's almost illegible minuscule.

And there you have it.

I'm going to be off the net for awhile; I have responsibility for Sophia for the next several hours. Her mother is taking daughter #2 to watch a semi-professional soccer game somewhere in Dallas; May has daughter #1 and I have daughter #3.

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18 Inches Of Snow Possible In Boulder

There are rumors that the Boulder, CO, global warming conference scheduled for Thursday has been canceled.