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View This Nice Visual Indicator of the Growth of Bakken Natural Gas Production

The EIA has published a very interesting video that depicts the fast growth of natural gas production in the Bakken Shale region in North Dakota. Oil production growth in the Bakken shale play mirrors somewhat the growth in natural gas production in the Barnett play. Like the Barnett, the Bakken drilling and production animation above [...]

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Whiting Petroleum Announces Partner in its Belfield Gas Plant and Related Facilities

Whiting Petroleum Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, sold to Bitter Creek Pipelines, LLC, a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group Inc., a 50% ownership interest in Whiting’s Belfield gas processing plant, gas gathering, oil gathering and related facilities located in Stark County, North Dakota. The facilities include a newly constructed, state-of-the-industry [...]

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DCP Midstream’s Growth in Midcontinent Accelerating with More Than $2 Billion in Investment

DCP Midstream LLC announced that it has more than $2 billion of capital investment underway in the Midcontinent, significantly enhancing its leading position in the area as the largest gatherer and processor of natural gas. The growth projects will supply producers with full-value chain service, including NGL takeaway services to the premium Mont Belvieu, Texas, [...]

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TransCanada Applies for Keystone XL Presidential Permit Again

TransCanada announced it has submitted a Presidential Permit application to the U.S. Department of State (DOS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline from the U.S./Canada border in Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. TransCanada will supplement that application with an alternative route in Nebraska as soon as that route is selected. “Keystone XL will transport U.S. crude [...]

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ONEOK Partners to Invest $140 Million in Growth Projects in the Bakken Shale

ONEOK Partners plans to invest another $140 million to construct a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and related infrastructure in Divide County, N.D. The new system, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2013, will gather and deliver natural gas from producers in the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin to the partnership’s previously announced [...]

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Enbridge Upsizes Capacity of U.S. Gulf Coast Access Projects

Enbridge Inc. is upsizing the capacity of its U.S. Gulf Coast Access projects. The Flanagan South Pipeline from Flanagan, Illinois to Cushing, Oklahoma will be upsized to a 36- inch diameter line with an initial capacity of 585,000 barrels per day (bpd). In a separate announcement today, Enbridge and its partner Enterprise Products Partners L.P. [...]

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ONEOK Partners to Invest in Bakken Shale Projects

ONEOK Partners, L.P. announced plans to invest another $140 million to $160 million to construct a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and related infrastructure in Divide County, N.D. The new system, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2013, will gather and deliver natural gas from producers in the Bakken Shale [...]

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Plains Gas to Build New Plant in Bakken

Plains Gas Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline LP will build a new Bakken Shale-area gas processing plant. Plains will construct the cryogenic gas processing plant with deep-cut ethane plus recoveries and specification product fractionation capability at its multi-product Ross Complex near Ross, N.D. The plant is expected to process between 50 million [...]

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Aux Sable Canada Enters into New Rich Gas Premium Agreements

Aux Sable Canada LP (“ASC”), is pleased to announce tailored midstream services for rich gas producers to maximize netbacks that, for the first time, have resulted in multi-year commitments for all natural gas liquid (NGL) commodities. These Rich Gas Premium agreements now represent a material volume of the natural gas shipped on the Alliance Pipeline [...]

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