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Too Few Bakken Pipelines
Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council expressed this week that too few pipelines transporting Bakken Crude from the western North Dakota oil fields is creating a threat to local wildlife. Approximately 50% of North Dakota’s record oil production is shipped either by rail or truck due to a general lack of pipeline [...]
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Bakken Crude Express Pipeline Derailed
Tulsa, Oklahoma based Oneok Partners LP reported this week that their proposed $1.8 billion oil pipeline from North Dakota to Oklahoma, known as the Bakken Crude Express Pipeline, has been derailed due to the company’s inability to secure enough commitments to transport Bakken crude. While the overall outlook for crude oil supply is healthy from [...]
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Reason Needs to Prevail for a Productive Montana Coal Conversation
Not that long ago (although admittedly longer for some than others), most of us in this part of the world believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. As children it was culturally acceptable to operate in “a world of make-believe”. Simply put, truth is limited by one’s ability to reason. Broken [...]
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Keystone XL…One More Time
R.L. (Bud) Andersen, spokesman for TransCanada, informed members of Montana Association of Oil, Gas, & Coal Counties, Inc. last week in Lewistown, MT that the Calgary based pipeline giant has divided the Keystone XL in two and is moving forward with the $2.3 Billion proposed pipeline running from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas; projected an in [...]
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The Strain of Getting Bakken to Market
As North Dakota hops over Alaska to become the #2 oil producer in the US, its no secret that Bakken crude trades at a discount due to the high cost of getting Bakken Gold out of the Bakken. Although additional pipeline routes are continually being developed; one producer, Phillips 66, the newly spun off downstream arm of Conoco [...]
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Bakken Oil Industry Continues to Tax Transportation Infrastructure
How many truckloads does it take to bring an oil well in North Dakota into production? The answer, “1,012″ ! Okay – where’s the punch line ? Well (no pun intended) there isn’t one. The answer really is “1,012″ truck loads. And that’s just one way ! 80 truckloads of sand 400 truckloads of fresh water [...]
Truck Traffic in North Dakota….It’s No Joke
We’ve all heard way too many, “How many (you fill in the blank) does it take to change a light bulb?” jokes to last us a life time, but it seems like family get togethers during the holidays bring out these over used, worn out jokes in truckloads. So I was pleasantly surprised to hear a new [...]
