Wow, It Never Quits, Does It? -- February 21, 2018

After all the "noise" the past couple of days regarding NGL infrastructure and natural gas/flaring, there seems to have been quite a response.

Now, this, sent to me by a reader (another "huge thank you") -- from a press release: ONEOK will invest $2.3 billion by 2020 to construct:

• a new 400,000-barrel per day (bpd) natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline – the Arbuckle II Pipeline – that will create additional NGL transportation capacity between ONEOK's extensive Mid-Continent infrastructure in Oklahoma and the company's existing NGL facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas;
• a new 125,000 bpd NGL fractionator – MB-4 – in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and related infrastructure; and, 
• a new 200-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility – the Demicks Lake plant and related infrastructure – in the Williston Basin. 

This is on top of more than $4 billion in announced capital-growth projects since 2017.

Note: Oasis is building the largest NG processing facility in North Dakota:

The Bismarck Tribune (http://bit.ly/2tFJeuB ) reports that Oasis Midstream wants to expand the Wild Basin Gas Plant in McKenzie County to make it the largest natural gas processing complex in the state.

The plant currently processes about 80 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. The expansion would add a new complex next to the existing plant, which would allow the plant to process an additional 265 million cubic feet per day.

So, if I read that correctly, a 345-million-cubic-feet natural gas processing plant. This is the plant that Andeavor will source with a new 44-mile pipeline to supply its Belfield logistics hub.