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Pipeline Planned to Reduce Flaring of Natural Gas
 Oneok Partners is building a 270-mile (435-km) pipeline system that will deliver natural gas produced in the Bakken shale to market by the end of 2013, as it hopes to cash in on the huge volumes of the fuel being flared in North Dakota.The oil is being hauled out by train, until one of the two pipelines proposed gets built. In the meantime, some of the gas is being burned up at the site. The gas-gathering network in Divide County will cost from $140 million to $160 million and link wells in the Bakken to Oneok's planned processing facility in Williams County, which is expected online in the first half of next year. Oil production in North Dakota has increased rapidly in recent years, but the gas produced alongside it has generally been flared due to a lack of investment in pipeline infrastructure, attracting the ire of environmentalists. Not just wasting it, but heating the environment by burning it, AND adding CO2! North Dakota produced 17.7 billion cubic feet of gas in January, only 62.5 per cent of which was brought to market, state figures show. But companies aiming to profit from the state's abundance of natural gas are beginning to build up a network of pipes, compressor stations and treatment plants in the region. Posted by: Bobby 2012-04-11 |
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