tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83665215581503730342024-02-19T02:06:05.131-08:00North Dakota EnergyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-13177334834535660672016-07-21T13:49:00.001-07:002016-07-22T13:09:36.976-07:00Wind Farm Proposed for Barnes County <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">An application to build a 300-megawatt wind farm near Valley City in Barnes County has been submitted to the North Dakota Public Service Commission, according to an article in today's <i>Bismarck Tribune.</i> According to the article, the project was proposed by Colorado-based Glacier Ridge Wind Farm LLC, a subsidiary of Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. of England. The company anticipates construction on the facility to begin in November and be completed by late 2019. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/large-wind-farm-application-submitted-for-barnes-county/article_8efa8b0b-8a89-57ed-80b7-aa01300219da.html">Read more</a></span></div>
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The North Dakota Public Service Commission today approved a 100-megawatt wind farm to be constructed northwest of Bismarck. The project will consist of 48 turbines located on 14,000 acres of land in Oliver and Morton counties. Last week, the PSC approved an 87-turbine wind project for Stark County in southwestern North Dakota. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/north-dakota-regulators-approve-m-wind-farm-near-bismarck/article_4ae83887-ec7e-5564-9f37-38832661b47d.html">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 22px;">In a meeting today with state legislators, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said the current slowdown in drilling activity in western North Dakota will significantly affect the state's revenue forecast over the next two years. In addition, Helms predicted the slowdown will make it difficult for the state to continue reducing natural gas flaring. Helms noted that North Dakota's rig count stood at 74, down from 191 in December, but added that the rate of permit applications continues to be brisk. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/helms-says-drilling-slowdown-not-a-bust-but-will-strain/article_083a98d6-86e7-52a1-bfd0-e8f1d0a3b10c.html">Read more</a></span><script type="text/javascript">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-75335146589117998292014-08-07T19:26:00.000-07:002014-08-07T19:28:47.892-07:00EIA Updates State Mining Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 12.100000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Source: </strong>U.S. Commerce Department, <a href="http://bea.gov/regional/index.htm" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://www.eia.gov/global/images/icons/external_link.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Regional Economic Accounts</a><br /><strong>Note: </strong>BEA uses the value-added approach to estimate industrial contribution to <a href="http://bea.gov/regional/pdf/gsp/GDPState.pdf#page=8" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://www.eia.gov/global/images/icons/external_link.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GDP by state</a>, or gross state product, presenting industrial value-added output by state based on the North American Industry Classifications System (NAICS).<a href="http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?code=21&search=2012" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://www.eia.gov/global/images/icons/external_link.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mining</a> comprises establishments that extract naturally occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores, crude petroleum, and natural gas. The data are converted to real (2009$) GDP by state by applying national chain-weighted price deflators.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">At the national level, establishments that extract crude oil and natural gas as well as naturally occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores, collectively referred to as the mining sector in economic data, accounted for about 2% of the U.S. economy last year. In some states, though, the mining sector accounts for a much larger share of the economy. Of the six states where mining comprised more than 10% of the state's economy in 2013, mining growth resulted in five of those states having higher economic growth than the national average.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><strong>Wyoming. </strong>With crude oil and natural gas production from the Niobrara formation and coal mining from the Powder River Basin, <a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wyoming</a> derives a larger share of its economic output from mining than any other state. In 2013, Wyoming's economic output from mining grew 18% between 2012 and 2013.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><strong>Alaska. </strong><a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=AK" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alaska</a> has the second-largest share of its economy tied to mining activity. An 8% decrease in mining activity in 2013, reflecting a drop in oil production from the North Slope, contributed to the decline of Alaska's total GDP by 2.5% in 2013, the largest decline in the nation.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><strong>West Virginia. </strong>Most of <a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WV" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">West Virginia's</a> mining activity is from coal mining, but natural gas production from the Marcellus shale in West Virginia has <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=12311" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">increased in recent years</a>. The sector grew from 11% of total economic activity in 2003 to 17% in 2013.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">North Dakota</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">. </span></strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">In percentage terms, North Dakota has experienced more change in its economic makeup from mining activity than any other state, going from 2% of its economy in 2003 to 14% in 2013. North Dakota's crude oil production surpassed </span><a href="http://wwwdev.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=5894" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 million barrels per day in average monthly oil production</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">earlier this year, because of production in the Bakken region. Associated effects from Bakken development, such as growth in construction, real estate rental and leasing, and accommodation and food services, also increased economic output. Growth in the mining sector has helped North Dakota achieve the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 2.7% as of June.</span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><strong>Oklahoma. </strong><a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=OK" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oklahoma</a> has significant oil and natural gas production, ranking fifth nationally in the volume of crude oil production and fourth in natural gas production. The state saw 19% growth in mining activity, up from its ten-year average of 7%. Oklahoma’s significant refining and transportation activity is not included in the mining sector data.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><strong>Texas. </strong>In absolute terms, mining activity in Texas in 2013 was more than seven times greater than the next largest state, Oklahoma. But compared to the states discussed above, Texas’s economy is much larger, so mining only accounts for about 11% of its economy. Much of the recent growth in mining has come from rapidly growing oil and gas production in the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16931" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eagle Ford formation and Permian Basin</a>.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">North Dakota crude oil production surpassed 1.0 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in April and May (the latest data available). This record is the result of increasing crude oil production from the Williston Basin's <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/bakken.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bakken</a> and Three Forks formations in North Dakota and eastern Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Although Bakken oil production initially began in the 1950s at Antelope Field in North Dakota, large-scale production growth did not begin until after the discovery of the Parshall Field in 2007. Since then, advances in drilling methods and technology, a better understanding of the geology of the Bakken, higher crude oil prices, and the formation's large size and number of wells all have contributed to higher production and to the potential for continued future growth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">As more wells are drilled in the Bakken, the base resource becomes better defined. Because the Bakken has a relatively low thickness (not exceeding 250 feet) and low permeability, better information on the location of available resources can quickly translate into an increase in crude oil production volumes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Defining the resource in any formation is critical in forecasting the growth and sustainability of its oil and natural gas production. Factors such as the geologic extent, depth, thickness, and porosity of a formation can inform the estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) rate of wells that are drilled in a formation. EIA uses geologic data to better understand individual well performances and the expected EUR in the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/marcellus.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcellus Shale</a>, and plans to expand these efforts over time to include other formations throughout the United States, including the Bakken.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">EIA uses well data to create maps showing the extent and structure of the productive and prospective regions of the Bakken. These maps help to visualize the depth and relative thickness of the Bakken formation. In addition, depth maps define the region where the resource is within optimal drilling range. Three-dimensional thickness maps can be used to determine rough estimates of resources in this region, as well as structural features such as faults and folds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=17391">EIA</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-33271164196105118282014-07-30T16:34:00.002-07:002014-08-01T17:05:20.553-07:00ONEOK Announces Bakken Expansion Plans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><org idsrc="xmltag.org" value="NYSE:OKS">ONEOK Partners, L.P.</org> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">today announced plans to invest approximately </span><money style="font-family: inherit;">$605 million to $785 million</money><span style="font-family: inherit;"> between now and the end of the third quarter 2016 to: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Build a new 200-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility – the <location>Demicks Lake</location> plant – and related infrastructure in northeast <location idsrc="xmltag.org" value="LU/us.nd.mckzie">McKenzie County, North Dakota</location>, which will process natural gas produced from the <location>Bakken Shale</location> in the <location>Williston Basin</location>;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Construct additional natural gas compression to take advantage of additional natural gas processing capacity at the partnership's existing and planned <location>Garden Creek</location> and Stateline natural gas processing plants in the <location>Williston Basin</location> by a total of 100 MMcf/d; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Build approximately 12 miles of natural gas liquids (NGL) gathering pipeline from the <location>Demicks Lake</location> plant to the partnership's existing Bakken NGL pipeline.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<location>The Demicks Lake</location> plant and additional natural gas compression will increase our natural gas processing capacity in areas that continue to be developed aggressively by crude-oil and natural gas producers," said <person>Terry K. Spencer</person>, president and chief executive officer of <org idsrc="xmltag.org" value="NYSE:OKS">ONEOK Partners</org>. "The additional 300 MMcf/d in the <location>Williston Basin</location> will increase our natural gas processing capacity to approximately 1.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in the region. Pending board approval, we expect to announce additional <location>Williston Basin</location> natural gas processing capacity by the end of this year."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition, the Garden Creek III natural gas processing plant, originally scheduled for completion in the first quarter 2015, is now ahead of schedule and slated for completion in the fourth quarter 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: <a href="http://www.oneok.com/en/NewsRoom/NewsReleases.aspx">ONEOK Partners</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-85799511985450457052014-07-29T15:41:00.001-07:002014-07-29T15:47:39.871-07:00NDIC Sends Fracking Comments to EPA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-90243379458052159312014-07-25T07:41:00.001-07:002014-07-25T07:42:54.997-07:00U.S. Refineries Running at Record Levels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">U.S. refineries have been processing record volumes of oil recently. Refinery inputs hit a record-high 16.8 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in each of the past two weeks, exceeding the previous record from summer 2005. Refineries in the Midwest and Gulf Coast in particular pushed the total U.S. input volume upward, as these refiners' <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2014/140514/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">access to lower-cost crude oil</a>, expansions of refining capacity, and increases in both domestic demand and exports contributed to higher refinery runs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As discussed in <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This Week in Petroleum</a></em>, refinery gross inputs in the Midwest have been higher than the five-year range since late April. Typically, Midwest drivers use more motor gasoline in the summer, and some of that has come from the Gulf Coast. However, recent and planned changes to pipeline infrastructure have altered both the type of products in the pipelines and direction of flow. These changes increase the incentive for Midwest refiners to boost their own gasoline production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Midwest's record-high runs of 3.8 million bbl/d for the week ending July 11 pushed the region's refinery utilization to 100.3%, the first time any of the Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (<a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/diesel_map.cfm" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PADDs</a>) has exceeded 100% since EIA began publishing weekly PADD-level utilization in June 2010. But this number says as much about the metric used as the feat itself. Refinery utilization is calculated based on calendar-day atmospheric crude distillation unit (ACDU) capacity, which takes into account usual operating conditions, including both planned and unplanned outages. Under ideal conditions, when outages are low, refiners can produce at levels above their calendar-day ACDU capacity.</span></div>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;">Realization of long-anticipated capacity expansions in the Gulf Coast region has also pushed their regional refinery runs to record levels. Gulf Coast gross inputs rose to 8.5 million bbl/d for the week ending June 27 and reached 8.7 million bbl/d for each of the following two weeks. The United States remains an increasingly active participant in the global petroleum products trade. The Gulf Coast region's competitive advantage, which is based on upgrading capacity of refineries, relatively lower costs of inputs and fuel, and access to growing markets, keeps utilization rates high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=17251">EIA</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-12863767882515253452014-07-23T15:57:00.000-07:002014-08-06T18:32:08.953-07:00Bakken Rail Transport Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most recent update - <span style="color: red;">8/6/2014</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">8/6/2014 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">State officials decided Wednesday a public hearing is in order to determine if any new regulations may be necessary in ensuring the safety of crude oil shipped by rail from North Dakota. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/news/government-and-politics/commission-plans-hearing-on-oil-report/article_bec163ac-1db7-11e4-a606-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: blue;">7/28/2014</span> Canada quietly issued new details on rail safety regulation last week that included specifications for the next generation of tank cars that are tougher than some of the options proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/usa-oil-railways-canada-idUSL2N0PY33P20140723">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">7/27/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Railroad documents released by the state Department of Public Safety show about 50 trains carrying crude oil from North Dakota are passing through Minnesota each week, most traveling along the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway line between Moorhead and the Twin Cities. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/report-on-oil-trains-moving-through-minn-released/article_3bb2cc4e-1551-11e4-a069-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">7/26/2014 <span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Railroad crews have reopened tracks where an oil train derailed early Thursday in Seattle, but work continues on three damaged tanker cars. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/work-continues-at-seattle-oil-train-derailment/article_27f51a4c-1419-11e4-8e67-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://new%20proposed%20u.s.%20department%20of%20transportation%20regulations%20call%20for%20the%20testing%20of%20bakken%20crude%20and%20better%20rail%20cars%20to%20ship%20it%20in.%20%20the%20dot%20opened%20proposed%20oil-by-rail%20rules%20up%20for%20public%20comment%20wednesday.%20the%20new%20rules%20are%20intended%20to%20improve%20the%20safe%20transportation%20of%20large%20quantities%20of%20flammable%20materials%20by%20rail./"><span style="color: blue;">7/23/2014</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> New proposed U.S. Department of Transportation regulations call for the testing of Bakken crude and better rail cars to ship it in. The DOT opened proposed oil-by-rail rules up for public comment Wednesday. The new rules are intended to improve the safe transportation of large quantities of flammable materials by rail. </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/dot-wants-testing-of-bakken-crude-redesigned-rail-cars/article_287ff53e-1281-11e4-a9b3-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #222222;">more</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee;"><span style="color: blue;">7/15/2014</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eaebee;">Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive oil train wrecks and the department's own findings that those accidents pose an "imminent hazard."</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #222222;"> <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/groups-seek-ban-of-oil-in-older-railroad-tank-cars/article_e316867e-0c55-11e4-8f82-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">7/14/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span>A string of fiery train derailments across the country has triggered a high-stakes but behind-the-scenes campaign to shape how the government responds to calls for tighter safety rules.<span style="color: #222222;"> <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/influence-game-shaping-railroad-safety-rules/article_8e1606d6-0ab1-11e4-97ad-0019bb2963f4.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue;">7/1/2014</span> Union Pacific railroad is no longer sending </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/crude-oil-boom-has-tankers-rumbling-through-holly-hills-neighborhood/article_aed9175e-f5fb-5309-a1d1-0ba9cea3ef3e.html" style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cars filled with especially volatile crude oil</a><span style="line-height: 22px;"> through the city of St. Louis, Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson told a group of concerned residents at a community meeting at the Carondelet Park Recreation Complex</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/crude-oil-tankers-no-longer-traveling-through-st-louis-city/article_d4903416-a440-50d0-9813-dbab9a0bf127.html">more</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">6/28/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> A North Dakota regulator says the state should employ its own railroad safety inspectors to help the federal government monitor crude oil shipments coming from the state's Bakken oil play. </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/n-d-regulator-wants-state-to-monitor-oil-trains/article_0655a7b6-fe7b-11e3-accf-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #222222;">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue;">6/25/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Disclosures from railroads about volatile oil shipments from the Northern Plains show dozens of the trains passing weekly through Illinois and the Midwest and up to 19 a week reaching Washington state on the West Coast. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/oil-train-info-shows-heavy-traffic/article_68dad91a-fc2d-11e3-bdd0-0019bb2963f4.html">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">6/18/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Speakers in Spokane, Wash. told a state Senate committee Tuesday that they oppose the rapid increase in rail cars carrying crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota and Montana through the state. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/washington-state-residents-rail-against-oil-shipments/article_ca307136-f6a9-11e3-a69d-0019bb2963f4.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">6/17/2014</span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As politicians debate the dangers of a massive increase in oil carried by rail in North America, railroads and energy producers are considering the same for natural gas. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/16/us-usa-railway-natgas-insight-idUSKBN0ER0D620140616">more</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22.206661224365234px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">6/5/2014</span> U.S. railroads forced to turn over details of their volatile crude oil shipments are asking states to sign agreements not to disclose the information. But some states are refusing, saying Thursday that the information shouldn't be kept from the public. <a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/news/nation/states-balk-at-keeping-oil-train-info-from-public/article_f37e2922-d346-509e-8f59-9ffe5a099d4f.html">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: blue;">6/3/2014</span> Oil industry studies concluding that Bakken crude oil is safe to move by rail under existing standards may underestimate the dangers of the fuel and should not be the last word, U.S. lawmakers and industry officials said on Monday. <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/02/usa-energy-rail-idINL1N0OE12220140602">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee; font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: blue;">5/28/2014</span> Residents and officials in towns along North America's new oil-by-rail corridors reportedly want to limit or halt the traffic, fearful that existing precautions will not prevent deadly blasts, air and waterway pollution, or nuisances including nasty odors. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/25/us-oil-railway-towns-idUSBREA4O06A20140525">more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">5/20/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">In a presentation made at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck today t</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">he central region director for the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said</span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;"> improved communication and compliance with federal regulations for transporting crude oil are necessary for the oil to be continued to be moved safely. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/shared-role-in-oil-safety/article_db385288-e096-11e3-a44a-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">5/20/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Oil industry representatives are pushing back against tougher rules for rail cars carrying crude despite a string of fiery accidents and insisting that oil shipped by train from the Northern Plains is no more dangerous than some other cargoes. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/industry-bakken-oil-not-more-risky-than-others/article_cba3eba2-e055-11e3-a03d-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">5/15/2014</span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"> America’s smaller railroads lack the capability to offer safety training in the shipment of crude oil and ethanol, and two top Senate appropriators asked federal regulators to fund those efforts, according to a report published today. <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/15/227545/senators-push-to-fund-crude-oil.html">more</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;">5/15/2014</span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;"> A study funded by the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, the trade group for the country's refiners, concluded that crude oil shipped from the Bakken play is being handled properly. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-usa-crude-bakken-idUSBREA4D0WR20140514">more</a></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">5/13/2014</span> Regulators reportedly are considering ways to make Bakken crude safer to ship including a requirement that natural gas liquids be stripped from the crude prior to transporting it.<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/us-davegrailways-safety-crude-idUSBREA4B0JD20140512">more</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">5/9/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> The main railroad moving crude oil out of the rich Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana said a new federal emergency order on rail shipments will not affect shipments. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/railroad-federal-order-won-t-affect-oil-shipments/article_345859e0-d736-11e3-a452-001a4bcf887a.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">5/7/2014</span> U.S. companies moving crude oil via rail must tell state officials when a cargo is moving across their regions, the U.S. Transportation Secretary said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing today. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/states-must-warned-oil-rail-cargoes-u-says-221431939--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBTzZY6WpTdCAAAKVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0Yjkwb3VoBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM3MF8x">more</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">4/25/2014</span><span style="color: #222222;"> The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation said yesterday during his visit to Casselton in eastern North Dakota that his office plans next week to outline options for enhancing tank car standards. Casselton was the site of a December oil train derailment. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/federal-transportation-secretary-discusses-rail-safety-efforts/article_9a463b68-cc29-11e3-9de2-0019bb2963f4.html">more</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;">4/23/2014</span> Efforts to improve rail safety reportedly are being hampered by a lack of cooperation among the key players. The oil industry and the rail industry are refusing to share data about the characteristics of oil being shipped and the basis for recommendations for safer tanker cars, respectively, according to a report out today. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/rail-safety-effort-marred-by-squabbling/article_26925e0c-cb18-11e3-ba59-0019bb2963f4.html">more</a><br />
<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">4/23/2014</span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;"> Canada's Minister of Transport </span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">today announced actions to address the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's initial recommendations regarding the ongoing investigation into the Lac-Mégantic train derailment. <a href="http://ndenergynotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/canada-announces-rail-shipment-actions.html">more</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">According to a new </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">EnergyWire</i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> report, rail shippers are not required to submit emergency response plans to the Federal Railroad Administration for monitoring and review unless they use tank cars with a capacity of 42,000 gallons or more. The report points out there currently are no tankers of that size hauling crude and that just five such cars exist nationwide. Shippers using smaller tankers are required to maintain basic emergency response plans in their own files, but, according to the report, the government does not review or monitor those plans. </span><a href="http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2014/04/23/oil-by-rail-loophole-keeps-emergency-spill-plans-in-the-dark/" style="background-color: transparent;">more</a></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;">The U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx plans to meet this week with Casselton officials to discuss </span><a href="http://ndenergynotes.blogspot.com/2013/12/crude-trail-derailment-reported.html" style="color: #48728a; line-height: 22.5px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the oil train derailment</span></a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;"> that occurred near the eastern North Dakota community last December. Foxx is slated to meet with local leaders on Thursday and provide an update on efforts to improve rail safety. </span><a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/DOT-chief-to-visit-site-of-ND-oil-train-derailment-5417144.php" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px; text-decoration: none;">more</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 22px;">A report in the <i>StarTribune</i> highlights the possible effect of recent legislation enacted in Canada that imposes surcharges on rail shippers using older tank cars to transport crude oil. O</span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;">fficial </span><a href="http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/PHMSA-BNSF+Notes.pdf" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #0b478d; line-height: 22.5px;">notes</a><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;"> from a March 19 meeting with the administrator and top officials of the U.S. Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration suggest that some in the rail industry believe the Canadian policy will lead Canadian shippers to purchase newer, reinforced tankers and send the older cars to the U.S. where similar legislation governing tank cars has not yet been enacted. <a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/255734471.html">more</a></span></span><br />
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<b>Rail Loading Map</b>...The North Dakota Pipeline Authority has released a new map that indicates the locations of twenty-two crude oil loading facilities in North Dakota (see link below). The capabilities of the facilities range in size from a handful of tank cars to 100+ tank cars loaded per day. The map also includes an outline of the Bakken and Three Forks formations and all active wells from October 2012.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">U.S. crude production in April 2014 was 8.4 million barrels per day (bbl/d), with two states, Texas and <b>North Dakota</b>, accounting for nearly half of this total. Texas production topped 3.0 million bbl/d for the first time since the late 1970s, more than doubling production in the past three years, and <b>North Dakota</b> production broke 1.0 million bbl/d for the first time in history, nearly tripling its production over the same period, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Petroleum Supply Monthly</em></a> report.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Combined crude oil production volumes from Texas and <b>North Dakota</b> reached 4.0 million bbl/d. From April 2010 to April 2014, crude oil production volumes in <b>North Dakota</b> and Texas grew at average annual rates of 37% and 28%, respectively, versus 2% average annual growth in the rest of the United States. During this period, <b>North Dakota</b> and Texas's combined share of total U.S. crude oil production rose from 26% to 48% (see graph above). By comparison, the Gulf of Mexico's crude oil production share declined from 27% to 17%.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Gains in Texas crude oil production come primarily from counties that contain unconventional tight oil and shale reservoirs in the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/eagleford.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eagle Ford</a> Shale in the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/rpd/shaleusa9.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Western Gulf Basin</a>, where drilling has <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=14951" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">increasingly targeted oil-rich areas</a>, and multiple reservoirs within the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/permian.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Permian Basin</a> in West Texas that have seen a <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16291" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">significant increase in horizontal, oil-directed drilling</a>. <b>North Dakota</b>'s increased oil production comes primarily from counties that contain the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/bakken.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bakken</a> formation, also a tight oil reservoir, in the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/rpd/shaleoil1.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Williston Basin</a>, where crude oil production growth has <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16631" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spurred a rise in crude-by-rail transportation</a>. Since April 2011, the largest monthly average increase in production has come from the Eagle Ford, with an average monthly increase exceeding 32,000 bbl/d, more than twice the 14,000 bbl/d increase in the Permian. Production from the Bakken increased 19,000 bbl/d on average each month over the same period.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-29562497327849898212014-06-30T15:52:00.003-07:002014-06-30T15:52:21.059-07:00Bakken News Links - June 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/28/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/n-d-regulator-wants-state-to-monitor-oil-trains/article_0655a7b6-fe7b-11e3-accf-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">ND regulator wants state to monitor oil trains</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/26/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/company-gets-shipping-commitments-on-north-dakota-pipeline/article_65349896-fd6d-11e3-b4cd-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Company gets shipping commitments for ND pipeline</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/25/2014 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/oil-from-u-s-fracking-is-more-volatile-than-expected-1403653344?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Oil from U.S. fracking more volatile than expected</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/25/2014 <a href="http://www.kxnet.com/story/25861100/north-dakota-to-double-pipeline-capacity" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">North Dakota to double pipeline capacity</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6.25.2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/oil-train-info-shows-heavy-traffic/article_68dad91a-fc2d-11e3-bdd0-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Oil train info shows heavy traffic</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/24/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/pipeline-summit-upbeat/article_8f0fdb04-fbe6-11e3-991e-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Pipeline summit upbeat</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/23/2014 <a href="http://www.kxnet.com/story/25849934/strata-x-energy-begins-drilling-in-emmons-county" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Strata-X Energy begins drilling in Emmons County</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/19/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/barrels-of-saltwater-leak-into-north-dakota-creek/article_7c15189e-f7b7-11e3-94a7-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">250 barrels of saltwater leak into ND creek</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/18/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/report-says-diesel-still-used-in-north-dakota-frack-jobs/article_2d60a3ac-f727-11e3-9942-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Report says diesel still used on ND frack jobs</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/18/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/washington-state-residents-rail-against-oil-shipments/article_ca307136-f6a9-11e3-a69d-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #882222;">Washington state residents oppose oil shipments</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">6/18/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/mechanical-failures-blamed-for-nd-spills/article_d77a0f4e-f6ab-11e3-89aa-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Mechanical failures blamed for 2 ND oil spills</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/17/2014 <a href="https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/directorscut/directorscut-2014-06-17.pdf" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">April oil production exceeds one million barrels per day</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/17/2014 <a href="http://thebakken.com/articles/673/summit-announces-300-million-plan-for-bakken-infrastructure" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Summit announces $300 million plan for Bakken infrastructure</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/17/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/breakout/is-the-utica-shale-another-bakken-in-the-making/article_0a3fc124-f181-11e3-af0e-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Utica shale compared to Bakken</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/17/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/breakout/helms-offers-midyear-update/article_0b50a1c2-f254-11e3-95d9-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Helms offers 2014 midyear update</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/16/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/saltwater-spilled-on-mountrail-county-well-site/article_24ef0142-f348-11e3-afc3-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Saltwater spilled on Mountrail County well site</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/15/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/canadian-company-offers-oil-solutions-for-the-bakken/article_ddf956aa-f259-11e3-9459-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Canadian company offers oil solutions for the Bakken</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/10/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/north-dakota-pipeline-oil-spill-cleanup-continues/article_c850b4ae-f017-11e3-8464-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Oil pipeline spill cleanup continues</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/9/2014 <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/262251171.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">ND oil boom poses threat to Minnesota wetlands</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/9/2014 <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/bakken-flaring-idUSL1N0OK2AI20140605" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Flaring rules may slow oil field development</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/8/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/pipeline-trenching-operation-causes-nd-oil-spill/article_36dd57d6-ef2a-11e3-8a6b-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Pipeline trenching causes ND oil spill near Alexander</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; 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font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/3/2014 <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/02/usa-energy-rail-idINL1N0OE12220140602" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Findings of Bakken oil safety studies questioned</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/2/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/north-dakota-requires-natural-gas-capturing-plans/article_24411ed8-ea65-11e3-a364-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; 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Dallas-based Summit Midstream Partners recently provided a commercial update for its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Meadowlark Midstream Company, LLC, and announced the development of a new oil, gas and water gathering system by its new, wholly owned operating subsidiary, Tioga Midstream, LLC. Meadowlark is composed of the Divide Crude Oil & Water Gathering System and the Polar Crude Oil & Water Gathering System, both of which are located in the Bakken Shale Play in North Dakota. Meadowlark also owns the Niobrara Gathering & Processing System, which is located in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Weld County, CO. <a href="http://summitmidstream.com/docs/summit%20investments%20-%202q%2014%20operational%20update%20(6%2010%2014)final.pdf">more</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-47160110640255212002014-06-16T06:29:00.001-07:002014-06-16T06:30:36.877-07:00EIA Updates U.S. Crude Export Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The United States exported 268,000 barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in April (the latest data available from the U.S. Census Bureau), the highest level of exports in 15 years. <a href="http://wwwdev.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2014/140529/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exports have increased sharply</a> since the start of 2013 and have exceeded 200,000 b/d in five of the past six months. The increase in crude exports is <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2014/140312/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">largely the result of rising U.S. crude production</a>, which was 8.2 million b/d in March. <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/">more</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-91298276331878952292014-06-10T06:46:00.003-07:002014-06-10T06:48:27.682-07:00EIA Updates Bakken Rail Transport Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">As onshore crude oil production in the United States increased over the past few years, producers have increasingly moved crude oil out of production areas by rail. Producers in North Dakota, in particular, have used rail to ship crude oil to refineries and midstream companies at newly built unloading terminals on the East Coast and West Coast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The number of rail carloads of crude oil began rising in 2012, as <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/bakken.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">production in the Bakken Shale</a> and other shale plays grew. According to the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, Bakken rail outflow capacity totaled 965,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) at the end of 2013, compared to 515,000 bbl/d of pipeline capacity. While some refineries are being built or planned for the area, most Bakken crude oil will continue to be moved out of the region to be processed at refineries in other parts of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Domestic crude oil supply to East Coast (PADD 1) refineries has increased with rising U.S. crude oil production in the Bakken area and expansion of crude-by-rail infrastructure. Imports from foreign countries into the East Coast of light sweet crude oil, which is of a quality similar to Bakken crude, <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2014/140430/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">have declined</a> as a result of increased receipts of Bakken crude from PADD 2. Some East Coast refineries have on-site rail unloading terminals, while other refineries receive crude by barge after it has been moved by rail to an unloading terminal:</span></div>
<ul style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 19.201921463012695px; margin: -6px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Two refineries, PBF Energy in Delaware City and Philadelphia Energy Solutions in Philadelphia, receive crude oil directly by rail, with unloading capacity of 120,000 bbl/d and 160,000 bbl/d, respectively.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Enbridge's Eddystone Rail facility, located outside Philadelphia, began operating in May 2014. This facility is able to transfer 80,000 bbl/d to Philadelphia-area refineries by barge after receiving rail shipments.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Other rail unloading facilities that transfer crude by rail to barge for transport to refineries are located in Yorktown, Virginia, and Albany, New York.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">On the West Coast (PADD 5), increased receipts of Bakken crude have partially offset declines in production from California and Alaska. West Coast refineries have ramped up crude-by-rail volumes in recent years. Several large unloading facilities are planned to come online in the next few years:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Tesoro, which currently has capacity to unload 50,000 bbl/d at its refinery in Anacortes, Washington, has proposed a 360,000 bbl/d facility at the Port of Vancouver, also in Washington.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">In addition, several new unloading terminals are planned to open in 2014 and 2015, with most of the unloading capacity in California and Washington.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">In addition to crude-by-rail loading facilities in the Bakken, new rail terminals have been built to transport crude oil production from the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/niobrara.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Niobrara Shale</a> formation in Colorado and Wyoming, and the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/pdf/permian.pdf" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Permian Basin</a> in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Several crude-by-rail loading terminals are already operating in the Niobrara, which has access to a vast rail network to transport abundant coal production from Wyoming's Powder River Basin. While the Permian Basin has much greater oil production than the Niobrara Shale, it also relies more on pipelines to transport crude oil production. However, in response to significant production growth there, particularly from tight oil formations, Rangeland Energy last month began construction on its RIO Hub rail loading terminal in Loving, New Mexico. This terminal is scheduled to begin operating later this year, with the project's developers expecting to eventually raise its capacity to 100,000 bbl/d.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">In addition to crude oil pipeline flows, EIA's <a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/maps.cfm?v=Petroleum" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Energy Mapping System</a> now enables users to see where these growing crude oil flows by rail are occurring. The mapping system now includes a new layer showing the location of crude-by-rail terminals in the United States (seen the map above). In addition to the new Crude Oil Rail Terminal layer, the U.S. Energy Mapping System has two other new layers—for ethylene crackers and wind turbines—and has several updates to existing layers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions in 2013 were 10% below the benchmark year of 2005. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;">Emissions</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;">in 2013 were roughly 2% above their 2012 level and 1.5% below their 2011 level, when emissions were 8.6% below the 2005 level. Recently released <a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/search/#?7=147" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">state-level data</a> through 2011, calculated from the State Energy Data System (SEDS) and aggregated here by Census regions, show different parts of the country generally experiencing this downward trend, but at variable rates by region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Between 2005 and 2011, all four Census regions—West, South, Midwest, and Northeast—experienced emissions declines, with the Northeast experiencing larger emissions reductions than the other regions. Underlying state-level emissions changes spanned an even wider range, from a 20% emissions increase in Nebraska (Midwest) to a 33% decrease in Nevada (West). Regional and subregional spreads reflect differences in local energy economics, population distribution, and other factors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Drivers of faster, larger emissions declines in the Northeast include extensive urbanization, translating into denser, more energy-efficient population centers, and increasingly low-carbon electricity generation from natural gas, nuclear, and renewables, instead of coal. The Northeast includes the top-three lowest emitting states per unit of economic output (New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts) and two of the top-five states with the cleanest electricity sources (Vermont and New Hampshire).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Compared to the Northeast, the other regions (Midwest, West, and South) have more diverse state-level characteristics, which contributed to relatively slower net emissions declines. Steep emissions reductions in some states were partially offset by escalating emissions elsewhere. For example, states like Wyoming (West), </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">North Dakota</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> (Midwest), and West Virginia (South) have more carbon-intensive energy production, higher and less efficient energy use in more sparsely populated areas, and heavily coal-reliant electricity generation compared to other states in those regions. Since 2009, factors driving the uptick in Nebraska's emissions profile included marked expansion of the biofuels (corn-based ethanol) industry, as well as increased production of crude oil and <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=12951" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the temporary closure of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant</a>. Conversely, Nevada's lower-bounding trend shows the effects of substantially decarbonizing its electric power sector—between 2005 and 2011, <a href="http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NV" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nevada</a> significantly reduced its coal use, while increasing solar and geothermal use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would require reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil-fueled electric power plants. The EPA proposal includes emission rate targets for each state, measured as pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatthour of covered generation, as well as guidelines for the development, submission, and implementation of state plans. The emission rate targets vary significantly across individual states, reflecting the application of a series of common building blocks to states with widely different starting points in their respective electricity markets.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16531" style="color: #474747; text-decoration: none;">EIA</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-77974219266293270822014-06-06T08:54:00.005-07:002014-06-06T08:55:46.313-07:00EIA Updates U.S. Crude Production Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">U.S. crude oil production has <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2014/140312/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grown rapidly in recent years</a>, primarily from light, sweet crude (a characteristic of crude quality, as measured by API gravity and sulfur content) from tight resource formations. Roughly 96% of the 1.8-million-barrel per day (bbl/d) growth in production from 2011 to 2013 consisted of light sweet grades with API gravity of 40 or above and sulfur content of 0.3% or less.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">EIA's new forecast of <a href="http://www.eia.gov/analysis/petroleum/crudetypes/" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. crude production by quality</a> indicates that the U.S. supply of light, sweet crude will continue to outpace that of medium and heavy crude through 2015. More than 60% of EIA's forecasted production growth for 2014 and 2015 consists of sweet grades with API gravity of 40 or above.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The growth in this particular <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=7110" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">type of crude oil</a> (as well as many forecasts for a continuation of this trend) has sparked discussion of how rising crude oil volumes will be absorbed into the market. Given the likelihood of continued growth in domestic crude production, and the recognition that <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2013/130501/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">some absorption options</a>, such as <a href="http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twiparch/2013/131030/twipprint.html" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">like-for-like replacement</a> of import streams, are inherently limited, the question of how a relaxation in current limitations on crude exports might affect domestic and international markets for both crude and products continues to hold great interest for policymakers, industry, and the public.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;">This new production forecast along with a series of analytic papers will provide a starting point for further EIA analyses on the market outlook and the effects of a possible relaxation of existing restrictions on crude oil exports.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3em;">Source:<a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16591"> EIA</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-39898135526957125192014-06-04T02:11:00.000-07:002014-06-04T02:11:03.324-07:00Bakken News Links - May 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/28 2014 <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/25/us-oil-railway-towns-idUSBREA4O06A20140525" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Some eastern towns try to stop oil trains</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/23/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/hamm-bakken-oil-threatened-by-safety-missteps/article_5dced5f8-e1ed-11e3-a547-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Hamm says Bakken oil threatened by safety missteps</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/22/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/researcher-talks-of-recovering-more-bakken-oil/article_3066521a-e140-11e3-b948-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Researcher talks of recovering more Bakken oil with CO2</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/21/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/conference-tackles-waste-disposal/article_46205a06-e131-11e3-8768-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Conference tackles waste disposal</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/21/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/north-dakota-regulator-calls-bakken-an-exclusive-club/article_3933d9f4-e0fe-11e3-a17c-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">ND regulator calls Bakken an 'exclusive club'</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/21/2014 O<a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/state-reports-oil-brine-spill-near-crosby/article_9dcbe334-e121-11e3-a7cc-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #882222;">il, brine spill reported near Crosby</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/21/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/big-role-seen-for-natural-gas/article_75796940-e06f-11e3-9bf0-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Big role seen for natural gas</a> (Williston Basin Conference)</span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/20/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/shared-role-in-oil-safety/article_db385288-e096-11e3-a44a-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Shared role in oil safety</a> (Williston Basin Conference)</span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/20/2014 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304831304579544092287190238?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304831304579544092287190238.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Energy companies try new methods to address fracking complaints</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/20/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/hess-shows-off-upgraded-tioga-gas-plant/article_d65e7808-df85-11e3-8520-0019bb2963f4.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Hess shows off upgraded Tioga gas plan</a>t</span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/19/2014 <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/conference-starts-tuesday/article_0fd129c0-dc50-11e3-bf42-001a4bcf887a.html" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Petroleum conference starts Tuesday in Bismarck</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/15/2014 <a href="http://bakken.com/news/id/173555/bakken-briefings-18/" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">Rail transload facility approved by Divide County commissioners</a></span></span><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/15/2014 </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-usa-crude-bakken-idUSBREA4D0WR20140514" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Refiners say Bakken crude does not need special handling</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/14/2014 </span><a href="http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/98355-north-dakota-ponders-oil-gathering-to-transmission-plan" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">PSC considers plan to use oil gathering pipeline for crude transport</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/13/2014 </span><a href="https://rbnenergy.com/can-bakken-flaring-be-cut-to-texas-like-levels" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Can Bakken natural gas flaring be cut to Texas-like levels?</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/13/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/out-of-control-oil-well-in-north-dakota-plugged/article_59b1ce72-dad0-11e3-aa7e-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Out-of-control oil well in Williams County plugged</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/13/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/north-dakota-oil-production-returns-to-record-territory/article_90219e38-dac1-11e3-a1ae-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">North Dakota oil production returns to record territory</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/13/2014 </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/us-davegrailways-safety-crude-idUSBREA4B0JD20140512" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Decreasing the volatility of Bakken crude</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/12/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/spill-reported-at-oil-well-near-tioga/article_8297f2e0-da02-11e3-8f0e-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Spill reported at oil well near Tioga</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/9/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/interior-secretary-visits-n-d-to-talk-flaring/article_0dfd8956-d7f3-11e3-96c0-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">DOI official visits ND to talk flaring</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/9/2014 </span><a href="http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/133016/US_EPA_Considers_Fracking_Fluid_Disclosure_Rules" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">EPA considers fracking fluid disclosure rules</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/9/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/oil-traffic-moving-again-but-rainy-forecast-could-stop-it/article_5c91db44-d7bc-11e3-8156-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Oil traffic moving again but rainy forecast could stop it</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/9/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/railroad-federal-order-won-t-affect-oil-shipments/article_345859e0-d736-11e3-a452-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Railroad says Federal order won't affect oil shipments</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/9/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/breakout/development-of-the-tyler-formation-in-prospect-mode/article_9001d76e-d6b7-11e3-9b78-001a4bcf887a.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Development of Tyler formation in prospect mode</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/8/2014 </span><a href="http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/132964/NDLNG_Announces_First_LNG_Production_Facility_in_North_Dakota" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">First LNG plant in North Dakota announced</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/7/2014 </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/states-must-warned-oil-rail-cargoes-u-says-221431939--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBTzZY6WpTdCAAAKVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0Yjkwb3VoBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM3MF8x" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">States must be warned of oil by rail cargoes</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/7/2014 </span><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/nd-oil-lease-sale-raises-m-for-school-trust/article_4fb39fdc-d5a2-11e3-8a3d-0019bb2963f4.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">ND oil lease sale raises $16.5 million</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/6/2014 </span><a href="http://ndenergynotes.blogspot.com/2014/05/vantage-pipeline-used-for-purity-ethane.html" style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #48728a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px; text-decoration: none;">Vantage pipeline transports ethane to Alberta</a><br style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" /><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #2a354e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">5/1/2014 </span><span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 1.22222em;"><a href="http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/content/oneok-proposes-280m-gas-processing-plant-near-watford-city-plant-would-be-states-second" style="color: #48728a; text-decoration: none;">ONEOK proposes $280M gas processing plant near Watford City</a></span><script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a proposed rule that would require reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil-fueled electric power plants. The EPA proposal includes emission rate targets for each state, measured as pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatthour of covered generation, as well as guidelines for the development, submission, and implementation of state plans. The emission rate targets vary significantly across individual states, reflecting the application of a series of common building blocks to states with widely different starting points in their respective electricity markets. <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/5BB6D20668B9A18485257CEB00490C98">Read more</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-44467535484046176262014-05-13T11:44:00.003-07:002014-05-13T19:37:06.344-07:00State Oil Production Update - March 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
According to <span id="goog_1206988446"></span><span id="goog_1206988447"></span>p<a href="https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/directorscut/directorscut-2014-05-13.pdf">reliminary data released today</a> by the North Dakota Industrial Commission, North Dakota produced 30,288,575 barrels of oil in March 2014, compared to an adjusted total of 26,657,540 barrels in February 2014. Total gas production for March was 33,671,853 MCF (preliminary), compared to 29,793,672 MCF in February (adjusted). Total number of wells actually producing during March was 10,457 (preliminary), compared to 10,199 in February (adjusted).<br />
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The following comments from NDIC Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms accompanied today's report...<br />
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<i>The drilling rig count was up slightly from February to March and back down from </i><i>March to April. The number of well completions was up sharply from 70 to 200. </i><i>Investor confidence remains strong. There were still approximately 50 wells shut in for </i><i>the Tioga gas plant conversion in an attempt to minimize flaring, but the biggest 5/13/2014 </i><i>production impact was still the weather. March began with 2-3 days of temperatures well </i><i>below zero, add to that 7-12 days with wind speeds too high for completion work, and </i><i>then 8 inches of snow on the last day of the month. In like a lion and out like a lion </i><i>makes oil and gas work difficult. <a href="https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/directorscut/directorscut-2014-05-13.pdf">more</a></i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-70645688921621172872014-05-12T07:17:00.003-07:002014-05-12T07:30:42.279-07:00PSC Considers Wind Farm Proposal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The North Dakota Public Service Commission is holding a public hearing on a wind farm proposal submitted</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Sunflower Wind Project LLC. The project would consist of 59 wind turbine generators on about 12,700 acres of private land </span>in Stark and Morton counties, with construction tentatively set to begin in early 2015. <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/hearing-scheduled-for-proposed-wind-farm-project/article_61169008-d9d6-11e3-89ad-001a4bcf887a.html">Read more</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-5990741548420692482014-05-10T13:54:00.002-07:002014-05-10T13:54:51.099-07:00EPA Considers Fracking Fluid Disclosure Rules <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;">The Obama administration announced its first steps on Friday toward possibly tighter regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, seeking public input on whether companies should be required to disclose the contents of fluids used in the oil and </span><span class="mandelbrot_refrag" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/sectors/industries/overview?industryCode=185&lc=int_mb_1001" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">natural gas</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;"> drilling technique. </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/09/us-usa-fracking-epa-idUSBREA480SM20140509?feedType=RSS&dlvrit=992637" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;">Read more</a><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: #eaebee; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eaebee; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">North Dakota LNG has announced plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility in Tioga, North Dakota. The plant will be the first-to-market in the state and is projected to produce 10,000 gallons per day (GPD) starting in Summer 2014. A phase two facility is scheduled to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2014 and capable of producing 66,000 GPD. NDLNG targets the drilling, fracking and transportation sectors of the unconventional oil and gas industry and will help meet the need for a cost-effective power source by converting natural gas feedstock into value-added liquid fuels. <a href="http://www.prairiecompanies.com/news">Read more</a></span></span><script type="text/javascript">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366521558150373034.post-46479613811681672692014-05-08T09:12:00.001-07:002014-05-08T09:12:08.348-07:00EIA Updates Wet Natural Gas Trends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In recent years, high levels of natural gas production have pushed prices down. The Henry Hub spot price averaged $3.73 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in 2013. In 2012, the average annual Henry Hub price was $2.75/MMBtu, which <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11191" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reduced profit margins for many natural gas producers</a>. The relatively high value of natural gas liquids (NGL) has led producers to target wet gas. NGL prices have traditionally been linked to crude oil, resulting in a significant price premium over pipeline-quality dry natural gas. More recently, the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/ngm_epg0_plc_nus_dmmbtum.htm" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">natural gas plant liquids composite spot price</a> (which approximates a value of NGL produced at natural gas processing plants) has hovered roughly halfway between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and natural gas spot prices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The result of this liquids price premium is that wet natural gas production is increasing at a faster rate than dry natural gas production. Liquids extracted from wet natural gas at natural gas processing plants accounted for 5.2% of the volume of marketed production in 2013, up from a low of 4.5% in 2008. September 2013 represents the highest liquids share of monthly production on record, at 5.5%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When wet natural gas first comes out of the ground, it contains both methane (which is the primary ingredient of natural gas) and NGL. NGL (ethane, propane, butanes, and natural gasoline) are a subset of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) as they do not include olefins. Between 2008 and 2013, volumes of liquids produced from wet natural gas grew at an average of 7% annually, with increases concentrated in the Gulf Coast. Production in the<a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=12671" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcellus region</a> is still relatively small, but is <a href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_gp_dc_r10_mbblpd_m.htm" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">growing rapidly</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Increased liquids production has <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9590" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">driven NGL prices down</a>, particularly of ethane and propane. Ethane, which is currently <a href="http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/#tabs-prices-4" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">priced below natural gas</a>, is being left in the dry gas stream in large volumes by gas processors and sold as natural gas, a phenomenon known as ethane rejection. Were ethane production more economical for processors, ethane production volumes would be higher, and ethane would occupy a larger share of total NGL production. As new ethane-consuming petrochemical plants continue to become operational, and as ethane demand is supported by <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16151" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">new export projects</a>, ethane prices will rise, and production volumes will begin to grow. Estimates of ethane rejection volumes range between 200 and 400 Mbbl/d.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Refineries also produce NGL, predominantly propane, but their rate of production growth has not been keeping pace with increases in production from the wet natural gas stream. Refinery production of finished products is closely tied to crude oil inputs, which have not increased in recent years. With production at natural gas processing plants growing and refinery production flat, refinery NGL has accounted for a progressively smaller share of total NGL production. In 2013, refinery output of NGL accounted for about 12% of total NGL production, down from 19% in 2008.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mistral Energy confirmed on Friday, May 2, that it has received exports of purity ethane in an inaugural shipment along the Vantage pipeline from the <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15511" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Williston basin in North Dakota</a>, to connect with the Alberta Ethane Gathering System near Empress, Alberta, in Canada. Purity ethane is at least 95% pure ethane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This announcement comes almost five months after Nova Chemicals announced the December receipt of purity ethane at its <a href="http://www.novachem.com/pages/sarnia-lambton/locations-corunna.aspx" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: url(http://www.eia.gov/global/images/icons/external_link.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">petrochemical complex near Sarnia, Ontario</a>, from the recently completed <a href="http://www.sunocologistics.com/Mariner-West/169/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: url(http://www.eia.gov/global/images/icons/external_link.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mariner West Pipeline</a>. EIA's Petroleum Supply Monthly <a href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=METEXUS2&f=M" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">estimates</a> this pipeline transported 24,000 barrels/day (bbl/d) of<a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=12671" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-size: inherit; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px inherit inherit; padding: 0px inherit inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcellus ethane from southwestern Pennsylvania</a> to Nova's petrochemical complex. Before these two announcements, purity ethane had not been shipped to Canada for the past 25 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Xcel Energy achieved a milestone at 3 a.m. April 27, when wind power met 46 percent of customers’ electricity needs in the company’s Upper Midwest service territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the time the company’s Upper Midwest record was set, wind resources provided 1,622 megawatts of the 3,512 megawatts Xcel Energy’s customers were using in Minnesota and neighboring states. The previous record was set in April 2013, when wind generation met 42 percent of customer demand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Xcel Energy is currently adding 750 megawatts of wind resources in its Upper Midwest territory. Four wind projects have been approved by Minnesota regulators, representing a 42 percent increase in the company’s wind power capacity in the Upper Midwest. All four projects – two in Minnesota and two in <b>North Dakota</b> – are scheduled to be in service by the end of 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wind generation produces 12 percent of the energy used by Xcel Energy’s Upper Midwest customers. Along with the wind additions coming on line by the end of 2015, the company is working towards the goal of generating 25 percent of its energy from wind resources by 2020, as required by Minnesota law.</span><br />
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