Natural gas processing plants in North Dakota are tracked here.
From S&P Global, Platts (huge thanks to a reader for spotting this article) :analysis -- Bakken looks to add 445 million cf/d of natural gas processing before year's end.
... as production increased 69 MMcf/d month over month to more than 3 Bcf/d in August, operators lowered flaring to 577 MMcf/d. The startup of the Little Missouri IV processing plant likely led to the decline in flaring, according to S&P Global Platts Analytics. Flaring was still high at 19% for the month, well above the state's 12% mandate.The graphs are staggering:
The drop in flared volumes is a sharp divergence from the prior three months when flaring increased each month. The increase in processed volumes from Little Missouri IV has allowed the Bakken to take an all-time high share of Northern Border Pipeline at the expense of Western Canada imports flowing to the Midwest.
Total Bakken deliveries to the pipeline are at an all-time high so far this month at 1.64 Bcf/d. Western Canadian volumes delivered to the pipeline are currently at 875 MMcf/d, just 10 MMcf/d more than the all-time low set in April, which was due in part to maintenance issues ...
- the Bakken is an oil play, not a natural gas play
- Canadians hate fossil fuel, doing what they can to destroy that part of their economy -- look at the west Canadian production vs little ol' North Dakota -- all of four counties, and mostly just two or three in the big scheme of things, and much of that natural gas production was flared off
Stamped: not trivial:
