ND Regulators Approve Two Pipelines -- April 3, 2020

Link here.

Two pipelines:

• a CO2 pipeline supporting EOR projects: Denbury
• a NGL pipeline: ONEOK
• both approved unanimously

The NGL pipeline: ONEOK (earlier story here) -- The Tioga Lateral Pipeline

• $100 million project; to be completed by end of 2020 -- this year
• northwest corner of the state
• 75-mile steel pipeline: up to 30,000 b/d
• from three processing plants
• Hess Tioga
• XTO Nesson
• Flatiron Springbrook
• will end by connecting to the northern portion of ONEOK's existing Bakken NGL Pipeline
• ultimately connecting to markets further south, including the Gulf Coast
• ethane, propane, and butane

From an earlier post:

Data points for the Bakken NGL pipeline:

• $500 million
• 600-mile pipeline
• capacity to transport 60,000 bpd of unfractionated NGls from the Williston Basin to the Overland Pass Pipeline in northern Colorado
• first NGL pipeline to transport natural gas from the Williston Basin to facilities in the Mid-Continent and the Texas Gulf Coast
• further plans: another $100 million to install additional pump stations to increase capacity to 135,000 bpd from 60,000 bpd as noted in today's press release; this expansion will be completed in 3Q14

The  other pipeline:

• Denbury: from Montana into North Dakota, through Bowman, Slope counties
• 18-mile pipeline; nine miles inside ND
• ND portion: nine miles; $9.2 million (again, rule of thumb -- $1 million / mile)
• six months to build; several months of testing; dates unknown
• will carry CO2 for EOR
• CO2 will originate from XOM's Shute Creek Gas Plant and COP's Lost Cabin Gas Plant in Wyoming; via several pipelines to Fallon County in southeastern MT; from there via this new Denbury pipeline
• to boost oil production from depleted wells in the Cedar Creek Anticline Area
• second CO2 pipeline in ND; first was the 1998 Basin Electric's Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah to oil fields in Saskatchewan