Houston, 9 April (Argus) — Oneok Partners today announced the completion of its Bakken NGL Line which will transport unfractionated y-grade mix from the Bakken shale to Conway, Kansas, and the completion of an ethane header that will connect its Mont Belvieu, Texas, assets to petrochemical companies along the Gulf coast.
The 600-mile (966km) Bakken NGL line will initially transport 60,000 b/d of unfractionated NGLs to an interconnection with Oneok's 50pc-owned Overland Pass Pipeline in northern Colorado. Raw mix, which will be taken from the company's regional natural gas processing plants and third-party facilities, will then move to Conway for fractionation and storage.
Oneok in July announced plans to expand the Bakken line to 135,000 b/d by the third quarter of 2014.
The midstream operator also completed a 400,000 b/d ethane header pipeline, which will carry purity product from its Mont Belvieu fractionators to nearby petrochemical companies. Product will initially be taken from Oneok's partially owned 160,000 MB-1 fractionator, and eventually the fully owned MB-2 and MB-3 fractionators, which are slated for completion in the third quarter of 2013 and fourth quarter of 2014, respectively.
Oneok's previously E/P splitter at Mont Belvieu will also provide purity ethane to the line when it commences operations in the second-quarter 2014.
Separately, Oneok today began operations at the 100mn cf/d Stateline II gas processing plant in Williams County, North Dakota, marking the third facility the company has completed in the Williston basin since late 2011. Along with the Garden Creek and Stateline I plants, Oneok now has capacity to produce 390mn cf/d in that region.
The three projects comprise $4.7bn of Oneok's $5.3bn growth program.
Send comments to feedback@argusmedia.com
eh/dcb 3.1
If you would like to review other ArgusMedia.com content options, request more information about Argus' energy news, data and analysis services.
Copyright © 2013 Argus Media Ltd - www.ArgusMedia.com - All rights reserved.
