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Natural gas production in NorthDakota has more than doubled since 2005, largely due to associated natural gas from the growing oil production in the Bakken shale formation. Gas production averaged more than 485 million cubic feet per day (MMcfd) in September 2011, compared to the 2005 average of about 160 MMcfd.
NorthDakota crude oil production (including lease condensate) averaged an all-time high of 770,000 barrels per day in December 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Much of crude oil production in NorthDakota is gathered and transported by truck to railcars leaving the state. Source: EIA.
Badlands NGL, LLC, announced the development of a NorthDakota manufacturing plant that will convert ethane (C 2 H 6 ), a byproduct of natural gas processing, into polyethylene, which is used to make a wide variety of end-use consumer and industrial plastics. The project will be the largest private investment in state history.
One of two new small (20,000 bbl/d each) refineries being built in NorthDakota broke ground this week, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) noted in a brief. The Dakota Prairie facility is scheduled to be built in 20 months. NorthDakota currently has one refinery, the Tesoro Mandan refinery located near Bismarck.
Bilfinger Westcon is currently constructing a diesel refinery project in Dickinson, NorthDakota expected to be completed around the end of this year. is a development-stage, publicly traded, diversified holding company with offices in Williston, NorthDakota. Quantum Energy, Inc. Quantum Energy, Inc.
In conjunction with the States of NorthDakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Montana, Bakken Energy is working on the design of the Heartland Hydrogen Hub, a regional clean hydrogen hub recently announced by NorthDakota Governor Doug Burgum. and Schneider National Carriers Inc.,
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in NorthDakota, South Dakota and Montana, resulting in a two-fold increase in the estimated technically recoverable oil, and a three-fold increase in estimated natural gas.
What does NorthDakota have in common with Iran? If NorthDakota were a country, it would rank fifth behind Russia, Nigeria, Iran, and Iraq on the list of worst natural-gas wasters, according to the World Bank.
Natural gas. NorthDakota. NorthDakota. NorthDakota. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Geothermal. West Virginia. New Mexico.
Energy infrastructure developer Bakken Energy (Bakken) has reached agreement with Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) on key terms and conditions to purchase the assets of the Dakota Gasification Company (DakotaGas), a subsidiary of Basin Electric, and the owner of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant.
Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The method is already being tested in Texas, NorthDakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Air pollution and greenhouse gas damages for transportation by railroad and pipelines to the gulf coast.
NorthDakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
The agreement, which is subject to XTO stockholder approval and regulatory clearance, will enhance ExxonMobil’s position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil resources. XTO is a US producer engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of quality, long-lived oil and natural gas properties in the United States.
United States M&A activity for upstream oil and gas deals set records in 2011 for both deal values and deal counts, according to PLS, Inc., a provider of information, marketing and advisory services for the oil and gas industry. Values of US upstream M&A oil and gas M&A deals, 2006-2011. —Ronyld W. Wise, President of PLS.
BNSF Railway (BNSF) has increased capacity in 2012 to enable the railroad to haul one million barrels of oil per day out of the Williston Basin in NorthDakota and Montana. Historically, oil and gas producers have used pipelines to transport crude from production to refineries and ultimately on to end users. Earlier post.).
Oil and gas producers rely on flaring to limit the venting of natural gas from their facilities. Methane—which can be a byproduct of oil production—is a powerful greenhouse gas. Methane—which can be a byproduct of oil production—is a powerful greenhouse gas. Genevieve Plant, Eric A. Kort, Adam R.
The Marcellus Shale contains about 84.198 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas and 3.379 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas liquids, according to a new geology-based assessment by the US Geological Survey (USGS). billion barrels of natural gas liquids.
The University of NorthDakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., FuelCell Energy’s cell would create liquid fuel from natural gas. The ability to monetize natural gas in cost-effective smaller-scale plants could be a value-added prospect in various industries.
ORegen is the largest organic rankine cycle single unit available in the market for gas turbines waste heat recovery. GE Oil & Gas has received a contract to supply the ORegen system to NRGreen Power, which is coordinating the project. ORegen is applicable on any type of simple-cycle gas turbine.
The US Geological Survey will update its 2008 estimate of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the US portion of the Bakken Formation, an important domestic petroleum resource located in NorthDakota and Montana. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Source: USGS. Click to enlarge. billion barrels.
Bakken crude is similar to other North American light, sweet crudes and does not pose a greater risk to transport by rail than other transportation fuels, according to a study recently completed by Turner, Mason & Company for the NorthDakota Petroleum Council (NDPC). The data indicated no significant changes in transit.
The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. NorthDakota. 1,000-1,200. Mississippi. *. New Mexico. Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Wyoming. **.
The Keystone pipeline is approximately 1,316 miles in length and transports crude oil from the US-Canadian Border in NorthDakota to Patoka, Illinois and includes an extension running from Jefferson County, Nebraska to Cushing, Oklahoma. From NorthDakota, the pipeline runs south through South Dakota and Nebraska.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3
The steep decline in residual fuel demand related to users switching to natural gas. Alaska production was down while NorthDakota produced record levels of crude oil at 546 thousand barrels per day in January. Total petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) fell 2.3% Demand for distillate fuel and jet fuel also increased.
The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, NorthDakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. University of NorthDakota , Grand Forks, N.D.
University of NorthDakota. Initial Engineering, Testing, and Design of a Commercial-Scale, Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture System on an Existing Coal-Fired Generating Unit The University of NorthDakota will design and determine the cost of installing a post-combustion CO 2 capture system at the Milton R.
billion barrels of proved oil reserves (a 9% increase) according to US Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves, 2013 , released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Tcf of natural gas proved reserves in 2013 (13.5 Tcf in West Virginia) and were 70% of the net increase in proved natural gas reserves in 2013.
a premier natural gas pipeline and storage provider, and Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., The collaboration will employ Mitsubishi Power’s Hydaptive hydrogen package, which integrates renewable power, gas turbines, hydrogen and other energy storage technologies. DT Midstream, Inc.,
tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by NorthDakota (80.4 California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 tonnes/person).
NorthDakota production in May set a record at 574 thousand barrels per day, eclipsing production from Alaska, which fell 5.0% The number of oil and gas rigs increased from 1,962 in April to 1,977 in May, according to the latest reports from Baker-Hughes Inc. Domestic crude oil production rose by 8.5% in May to average 6.1
We are beginning to get a sense of regional variation in methane emissions from natural gas production. The gas fields we studied for this paper produced about 20% of the natural gas in the United States, and more than half the shale gas, so this moves us closer to understanding methane leaks from US natural gas production.
The area is one of the largest contiguous deposits of oil and natural gas in the United States, found in NorthDakota and Montana, where energy production has doubled in the past three years.
In addition, the refinery’s exceptional location and infrastructure will enable the joint venture to create new business opportunities related to Marcellus Shale natural gas fields. The refinery will be a reliable and critical supplier of fuels to the regional market through its new business structure and improved crude oil sourcing.
Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.
The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of NorthDakota, in partnership with Cummins Power Generation, Inc., The Cummins generator, which normally runs on natural gas, has been modified to run on synthetic natural gas (syngas) produced by an EERC-developed advanced gasification unit.
APG) has signed a license agreement with Trident Resources, LLC for the exclusive worldwide right to commercialize Trident’s proprietary Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) process technology. The new NGL process will be able to produce a premium quality natural gas capable of being used for both stationary and vehicular APG dual fuel applications.
The large membrane pilot will be designed to focus on partial capture from a slipstream of flue gas using the MTR Polaris membrane. University of NorthDakota Energy and Environmental Research Center. Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. In Phase I, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
OmniGas uses a patent-pending molten slag approach to produce syngas that can be used by more than 14,000 US industrial consumers of large volumes of natural gas. The 24-month, $945,000 grant is focused on the design and demonstration of a one ton per day OmniGas gasifier to process biomass, coal, and blends thereof. Earlier post.).
The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the oil and gas sector on November 25 to a “negative” outlook because of falling oil prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com. trillion junk-bond market.
Alaskan production was up by 34%, and NorthDakota production was also strong. The number of oil and gas rigs remained flat from December 2011 levels, according to the latest reports from Baker-Hughes Inc. Crude oil production rose 3.8% in January to average 5.7 million barrels per day, an eight-year high for the month.
Accelergy Corporation, an advanced coal-to-liquids company, has formed a strategic partnership with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of NorthDakota.
The Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven members of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, has begun collecting core samples from a new characterization well near Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson natural gas processing plant in British Columbia, Canada.
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