Thursday, November 10, 2011

MDU To Lay New Pipeline To Feed Previously-Announced New NG Plant Near Mandan, North Dakota

Link here.
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. intends to build a 24-mile natural gas pipeline to fuel a proposed 88-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant near the company’s Heskett Generating Station.

MDU announced in July plans to build an $85.6 million natural gas-fired power plant next to its coal-fired plant to meet capacity requirements following the failure of the planned Big Stone II coal plant in South Dakota in 2009. If approved, the new plant could be in use by the beginning of 2015.
Data points:
  • $18.4 million
  • Pipeline construction to begin mid 2013; complete by end of same year


Week 45: November 5 -- November 11, 2011

Quickpits

Burke Lodge -- 110-unit man-camp opens, Williston, ND

Three notable wells reported in past ten days: Charlotte, Tarpon, and Hagen

Whiting to build operations center in Watford City; Power Fuels doing same

Missouri Basin Well Service to build headquarters in Watford City

Alaska's Cruz Company to come to Williston

Petro-Hunt with cluster of six wells in Four Bears

Bakken boom spurring building boom in Bismarck

Browser and the Website -- milliondollarway

Elsewhere someone has mentioned that they are having trouble viewing "milliondollarway.blogspot.com."

That's the second time someone has brought this issue to my attention.

This blog uses the "blogger" application which is now supported by "Chrome" (Google).

I don't yet have "Chrome" but have no trouble with the website on Firefox, Windows 7 Internet Explorer, or Safari. I haven't checked Safari in about three months, so don't know for sure about Safari right now. This site is optimized for Firefox; it is a breeze to edit and post. It is very challenging to edit and post using Windows 7 Internet Explorer, but I am not aware of any problems viewing it on that browser.

I never have problems viewing my site whenever I visit an Apple store. I used to have problems using an old Windows Internet Explorer browser when passing through the Harvard Business School. I have no problems with Windows 7 Internet Explorer for viewing, as noted above.

My page views are running about 4,000/day, I think, and I have had two comments about difficulties with the site: one comment came directly to my e-mail; the second comment arrived at the best site in the world for Bakken mineral owners, the Bakken Shale Discussion Group (same link as above). The best part about their site is that they minimize all political comment, something I have great difficulty doing.

I don't own any mineral rights whereas most of the folks who post on the BSDG do own minerals. In addition, they are all very, very helpful. I generally direct folks who ask me specific questions about mineral rights to also visit the BSDG. 

Without question, though, the best experience for surfing the net is on the large Apple monitors/Apple computers. The blogs -- not just mine, but all of them are crystal clear. And someday when I win the lottery I will a) buy a car; and b) buy a bigger Apple computer. 

Quickpits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Website link here. Photo here.

From the Bismarck Tribune:
Inventor Allen Stein of Colorado, a native of Bowman, has created a new above-ground water storage system for the oil and gas industry.

As an employee of Energy Services LLC, Stein, a 1982 graduate of Bowman High School, developed a 30-inch-high steel frame structure to hold up the edges of plastic liners to contain spills, such as from tanks holding hydraulic fracturing fluid.
From that came the Quick-Pit, a system using metal A-frames 10 feet high to create the outer wall of above-ground, plastic-lined pits which can hold from 30,000 to almost a million barrels of hydraulic fracturing and well-flowback fluids.
Similar article here.

Major Oil Terminal Projects Being Announced Along Texas Gulf Coast -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here.

Driven by talks of exports; companies announcing projects:
  • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
  • Oiltanking Partners
  • GT Logistics LLC
GTL
  • To open OmniPort in January, 2012, Port Arthur, TX
  • 300 acres of on-site rail car storage
  • $95 million project
Bostco Terminal
  • KMEP will participate in Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Co LLC (Bostco)
  • Houston Ship Channel
  • Initial phase: 52 storage tanks; combined capacity of 6.6 million bbls
  • Will be able to handle ships with drafts up to 45 feet
  • To enter service by 3Q13
  • $400 million project
Oiltanking
  • Two oil pipelines and 1 million bbls of oil storage in Houston Ship Channel
  • Cited expected US shale and Canadian oil sands crude oil coming to the Gulf Coast
  • To be completed by 1Q13
  • $85 million project
  • Brings capacity of all products up to almost 20 million bbls