Bakken Natural Gas Takeaway -- Re-Posting -- May 5, 2019

It's easy to forget. Earlier a reader noted that the Bakken is going to need more than just additional "local" pipeline to take away all the natural gas. This "local" project (see re-posting below) will connect to a major national pipeline.

From an earlier post:

From The Bismarck Tribune: natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline proposed for northwest North Dakota -- in other words, the heart of the Bakken. Wow! From the linked article:

• ONEOK: seeking permit
• Demicks Lake Pipeline Project
• 77-mile-long pipeline
• at $1 million/mile = $77 million estimate
• the company says: $125 million
• seventy-five miles inside state of ND
• includes nine miles under the Little Missouri National Grassland with existing infrastructure
• from a processing plant under construction in McKenzie County
• Demicks Lake I and Demicks Lake II: both under construction northeast of Watford City
• would add a total processing capacity of 400 million cfpd
• Demicks Lake I should be completed by 4Q19
• 40,000 bbls of NGLs/day from Watford City area to Richland County, MT
• Elk Creek Pipeline will be constructed in Richland County (would that be Sidney, MT?)
• Elk Creek pipeline under construction, from Sidney, MT, to Bushton, Kansas: capacity - 240,000 bpd
• seventy-five miles inside state of ND
• both pipelines would transport Y-grade natural gas liquids; transported together, separated later; see this RBN Energy on Y-grade NGLs;
• there are no reservations along the planned route
• there was no mention of sage grouse
• "existing infrastructure" always has a nice ring to it

The Bismarck Tribune link here.

The Elk Creek pipeline:

The $125 million project will connect with the Elk Creek Pipeline, a 900-mile pipeline under construction to transport natural gas liquids from Sidney, Montana, to Bushton, Kansas.