Holy Mackerel -- It Never Quits -- Keeping North Dakota Great -- New Gas Processing Plant Planned For McKenzie County -- January 25, 2018

Link here at The Bismarck Tribune. Data points:

• Hess Midstream Partners
• $150 million natural gas processing plant
• partner: Targa Resources Corp
• name: Little Missouri Four plan
• capacity: 200 million cf/d
• location: near Targa's existing facility south of the Missouri River near Watford City
• completion date: by the end of this year
• natural gas production in ND set a record in November, 2017: 2.1 billion cubic feet/day
• flaring: still at 14%
• one of four natural gas processing plants in the planning or construction stages in North Dakota
• the four projects would add an additional 615 million cubic feet per day of additional processing capacity
• ONEOK: to expand it Bear Creek natural gas processing plant north of Killdeer; will expand from a capacity of 80 million to 175 million cubic feet per day
• Crestwood Equity Partners: expand the Arrow Bear Den gas processing plant near Watford City, adding another 120 million cfpd
• Oasis Wild Basin processing plant it expanding to process 345 million cfpd in McKenzie CountyN

Note: if that is not an error in reporting, it seems that the Oasis expansion to 345 million cfpd is a huge addition; prior it was 80 at Plant 1; and 150 at Plant 2.
Note: it looks like a race among Hess, ONEOK and, Oasis to see who will have bragging rights to most natural gas processing capacity in the state.
Note: for newbies, this is a huge, huge story. The Bakken is an "oily" story, an "oily" play; no one expected this much natural gas activity back in 2007.

Disclaimer: the table below is not entirely accurate. Much of the data in 2018 is projected for 2018 and later years; some of the numbers in 2018 are based on "plans" by operators, not necessarily what will be accomplished by year end. The NDIC has the official data.

Owner Company	Facility	County	2006	2008	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
North Dakota
ONEOK/Bear Paw	Lignite	Burke	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
ONEOK/Bear Paw	Marmath	Slope	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5
ONEOK	Grasslands	McKenzie	63	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
ONEOK	Stateline I	Williams	NA	NA	NA	NA	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
ONEOK	Stateline II	Williams	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	100	100	100	100	100	100
ONEOK	Garden Creek I	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
ONEOK	Garden Creek II	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	100	100	100	100	100
ONEOK	Garden Creek III	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	120*	120	120	120
ONEOK	Lonesome Creek	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	200	200	200	200
ONEOK	Demicks Lake	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	200*	Suspended: Feb 24, 2015
ONEOK	Bear Creek	Dunn	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	80*	80	80
Petro Hunt	Little Knife	Billings	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
True Oil	Red Wing Creek	McKenzie	4	4	4	4	4	10	10	10	10	10	10
Sterling Energy	Ambrose	Divide	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
EOG Resources	Stanley	Mountrail	NA	20	0*	0*	0*	0*	0*	0*	0*	0
Whiting Oil & Gas	Robinson Lake	Mountrail	NA	30	45	90	90	90	110	110	110	110	110
Whiting Oil & Gas	Ray	Stark	NA	10	NA	NA	NA	NA	10	10	10	10	10
Whiting Oil & Gas	Belfield	Williams	NA	NA	NA	30	30	35	35	35	35	35	35
XTO - Nesson	Ray	Williams	NA	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Hess	Tioga	Williams	110	110	110	110	110	110	250	250	250	250	250
Hess Targa	Little Missouri 4												200
Hiland Partners	Badlands	Bowman	4	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Hiland Partners	Norse	Divide	NA	NA	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
Hiland Partners	Watford City	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	50	90	90	90	90	90	90	90
Summit Resources	Knutson	Billings	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**	NA**
Targa Resources	Badlands	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45
Targa Resources	Badlands	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	200	200*	200	200
USG Midstream Bakken	DeWitt	Divide	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	3	3	3	3	3	3
Caliber Midstream	Caliber Midstream	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	10	10	10	10	10	10
Plains	Ross	Mountrail	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	75	75	175	175	175
Oasis	Wild Basin	McKenzie									80	80	345
Liberty Resources	Tioga	Williams									20	20	20
Crestwood	Arrow Bear Den	McKenzie	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	30	120
AUX Sable - Chicago, IL
AUX Sable - Chicago, IL	Prairies Ross	Mountrail	NA	NA	110	110	110	110	110	110	110	110	110
			227	370	490	760	900	1024	1369	1769	1889	2199	2754

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