Most Interesting Development -- March 6, 2020

Updates

April 14, 2020: as scheduled, the PSC was scheduled to consider this pipeline request today, The Bismarck Tribune link here.


Later, 2:39 p.m. Central Time: an eagle-eyed reader caught this one. Look at the story below.

• Time line:
• story published today by The Williston Herald 
• pipeline to be operational by April 1, 2020
• PSC hearing two weeks later: April 14, 2020
• time to construct: 6 - 8 weeks
• Comments:
• either a typographical error, and more likely to be operational by July 1, 2020; or, 
• "they" have the ditch dug, pipe in place; just waiting for the go-ahead?  

Or someone's watching too many re-runs of "Back To The Future."
 

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Original Post

Link here.

As the amount of Bakken gas production has increased, future BTU limits on the Northern Border pipeline have become more and more likely. That’s prompting a unique proposal for an alternative, high-BTU gas market in the Williams-Mountrail County region.

Liberty Midstream Solutions is proposing a 4.7 mile, 8-inch residue pipeline on privately owned lands in the area to take high-BTU residuals to an existing third-party line, from where it could be sent to markets in Chicago.

The Alliance Sales Line would carry up to 80 million cubic feet per day for an estimated construction cost of $4.6 million.

The Public Service Commission has set a public hearing for the pipeline at 9 a.m. April 14 at Neset Consulting Service in Tioga. The company has asked for waivers of some procedures and timelines to expedite construction.

Liberty hopes to have the line operational by April 1, 2020. It would take six to eight weeks to construct.

Much, much more at the link. Archived.

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