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billion program of pipeline expansions to carry an additional 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) of light oil from NorthDakota and western Canada to refinery markets in Ontario, Quebec and the US Midwest. Specifics include: NorthDakota System Expansion and Extension. Enbridge Inc. will proceed with a $6.2-billion
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.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded an agreement to the University of NorthDakota Energy and Environmental Research Center (UNDEERC) to extend a study that will enhance the understanding of factors affecting oil production from the Bakken and Three Forks-Sanish formations within the Williston Basin.
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.
US crude oil production averaged 11.3 The production decline resulted from reduced drilling activity related to low oil prices in 2020. The production decline resulted from reduced drilling activity related to low oil prices in 2020. In January 2020, US crude oil production reached a peak of 12.8 million b/d. million b/d.
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. NorthDakota gas production: marketed, not marketed, and percentage not marketed. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. (It
The latest monthly update of estimated crude oil production in the Bakken region of NorthDakota and Montana shows total wellhead output topping 1 million barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) next month. The update appears in the most recent issue of the US Energy Information Administration’s Drilling Productivity Report (DPR).
Bilfinger Westcon is currently constructing a diesel refinery project in Dickinson, NorthDakota expected to be completed around the end of this year. The design plan includes the capturing the CO 2 released form the facilities for use in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) throughout the Bakken. Quantum Energy, Inc.
In September, Statoil will begin transporting by rail Bakken crude from NorthDakota to customers in the US East, West and Gulf Coasts, and Canada. Statoil plans to boost its North American production from less than 100,000 barrels oil equivalents per day (boepd) in 2011 to more than 500,000 boepd in 2020. Earlier post.).
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.
Thermal cracking is a well-known pathway for transforming crop oils (i.e., triacylglyceride oils, TGs) into chemicals that can be used as replacements for petroleum transportation fuels. Cyclic hydrocarbons are important for fuel components, chemicals, and polymer precursors. As a result, PAH generation may be observed. be of interest.
(MPC) and ADM announced an agreement to form a joint venture for the production of soybean oil to supply rapidly growing demand for renewable diesel fuel. When complete in 2023, the Spiritwood facility will source and process local soybeans and supply the resulting soybean oil exclusively to MPC.
Five states (Texas, NorthDakota, California, Alaska, and Oklahoma) and the Gulf of Mexico supplied more than 80%, or 6 million barrels per day, of the crude oil (including lease condensate) produced in the United States in 2013, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Click to enlarge.
These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. NorthDakota. NorthDakota. NorthDakota.
US crude oil imports during 2011 fell to their lowest level in twelve years and were down 12% from their peak in 2005, as higher domestic oil production and decreased consumption of petroleum products reduced American refiners’ purchases of foreign crude, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). million bbl/d.
The NorthDakota Industrial Commission has awarded Tesoro $500,000 to support a $3.5-million million project to study enabling the company’s Dickinson, ND refinery to co-process renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils such as soy or distillers corn oil into renewable diesel (RD). D5 RINs per gallon.
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. One million barrels of oil per day would represent about 16-17 unit trains of 100 tanker cars each (60,000 barrels per train). Earlier post.).
The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. As is the nature of the junk-bond market, lots of money flowed to companies with much riskier drilling prospects than, say, the oil majors. The situation will compound itself if oil prices stay low.
million barrels per day of crude oil and liquids. The Enbridge Mainline system is the largest conduit of oil into the United States. Enbridge transports 53% of US-bound Canadian production, a figure that accounts for approximately 15% of total US crude oil imports. miles (2.4
TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. The tar sands are estimated (e.g., However, if the tar.
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.
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.
During the crush process, soybeans are cracked to remove the hull and then rolled into flakes, which are then soaked in a solvent and put through a distilling process to produce pure crude soybean oil. —NorthDakota Governor Doug Burgum. The processed soybean flakes are dried, toasted and ground into soybean meal.
World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 Source: Maugeri 2012.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 10.7 This national increase is almost entirely driven by tight oil. Lower wellhead prices in the region are contributing to slower growth in Permian crude oil production in 2019 compared with 2018.
The increase in US crude oil production has outstripped pipeline capacity, resulting in increasing reliance on railroads to move crude oil to refineries and storage centers. US weekly carloadings of crude oil and petroleum products averaged nearly 13,700 rail tankers during the January-June 2013 period.
US crude oil proved reserves increased for the fifth year in a row in 2013, a net addition of 3.1 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). Combined, these two states added 21.8
Imports of crude oil and refined products fell in January by 14% to average 10.1 Crude oil production rose 3.8% 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.
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. Movements of petroleum products, particularly crude oil, have received enormous media attention. Clay et al.
A state selection committee comprising members from the NorthDakota Department of Commerce and Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS), which administers Vantis, selected Thales as the long-term systems integrator for Vantis design, operations and maintenance. As the system matures, Vantis will continue its expansion across the state.
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. We expect continued strong activity in oil and liquids-rich resource plays in 2012. —Ronyld W.
The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. This week, the RFA happened to issue two pieces, each touching on the impact of oil sands production.
A field test conducted by a US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has demonstrated that using carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method dubbed “huff-and-puff” can help assess the carbon sequestration potential of geologic formations while tapping US oil resources.
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.
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).
of the construction of the Sandpiper Project, which will become part of Enbridge Energy Partners’ NorthDakota System when it is completed. The Sandpiper Project is the next phase of crude oil pipeline expansion that will provide a transportation corridor from Beaver Lodge, N.D. MPC will fund 37.5% to Superior, Wis.
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 Bakken is a prime US unconventional oil play, and is believed to be one of the largest, if not the largest, oil accumulation in the US. The tight oil is extracted in the same way as shale gas, through horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing. In the Bakken formation, the oil is extracted from tight carbonate.
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. —PHMSA Administrator Cynthia Quarterman. Administrator Quarterman recently visited the Bakken Shale Formation.
The transaction positions Denbury as one of the largest crude oil-focused, independent North American exploration and production companies. Encore has one of the larger acreage positions in the prolific Bakken oil shale with over 300,000 net acres. (the “Company”) and will be headquartered in Plano, Texas.
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 selections include $10.3 million in federal funds.
The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. But the bust is leaving towns like Williston, NorthDakota stretched extremely thin as it tries to deal with the aftermath. By Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.
Monday afternoon, a CSX oil train (109 cars, two locomotives, carrying Bakken crude from NorthDakota) derailed in West Virginia, resulting in a fire, with an as yet unspecified number of cars rupturing and exploding. Earl Ray Tomblin issued a State of Emergency for Kanawha and Fayette counties following the derailment.
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. Multiple flares observed in operation in the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin in NorthDakota, 2021.
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