Oneok spending $500 million on capital-growth projects

Oneok Partners LP announced the completion of more than $500 million in capital-growth projects. Included among them is the expansion of the Bakken Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Pipeline, which increases the capacity to 135,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 60,000 bpd.

The 600-mile pipeline transports unfractionated NGLs from the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin to the partnership’s 50 percent-owned Overland Pass Pipeline, a 760-mile NGL pipeline extending from southern Wyoming to Conway, Kan.

Oneok also completed the 100-million-cubic-feet-per-day Garden Creek III natural gas processing facility and related infrastructure in McKenzie County, N.D., as well as the Niobrara NGL Lateral, an NGL pipeline lateral that connects its Sage Creek natural gas processing facility in the NGL-rich Niobrara Shale formation in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to the Bakken NGL Pipeline.