ONEOK Announces Bakken Expansion Plans

ONEOK Partners, L.P. today announced plans to invest approximately $605 million to $785 million between now and the end of the third quarter 2016 to:  

• Build a new 200-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility – the Demicks Lake plant – and related infrastructure in northeast McKenzie County, North Dakota, which will process natural gas produced from the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin;
• Construct additional natural gas compression to take advantage of additional natural gas processing capacity at the partnership's existing and planned Garden Creek and Stateline natural gas processing plants in the Williston Basin by a total of 100 MMcf/d; and
• Build approximately 12 miles of natural gas liquids (NGL) gathering pipeline from the Demicks Lake plant to the partnership's existing Bakken NGL pipeline.

"The Demicks Lake 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 Terry K. Spencer, president and chief executive officer of ONEOK Partners.  "The additional 300 MMcf/d in the Williston Basin 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 Williston Basin natural gas processing capacity by the end of this year."

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.

Source: ONEOK Partners