Oneok Partners plans build-out of NGL infrastructure in Bakken

Oneok Partners says it will invest about $650 million to $780 million through second-quarter 2016 to build a new 200-million-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas processing facility and related infrastructure in McKenzie County, N.D., in the Bakken Shale, and complete a second expansion of the Bakken NGL Pipeline, which will increase capacity to 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) of natural gas liquids. Lonesome Creek is the partnership’s sixth new natural gas processing plant built in the region since 2010 and seventh plant overall. To accommodate NGL volumes produced from the Lonesome Creek plant, Oneok Partners expects to invest an additional $100 million to increase capacity on its Bakken NGL Pipeline, a 600-mile pipeline completed in April that transports unfractionated NGLs produced in this region to the partnership’s 50 percent-owned Overland Pass Pipeline. This second expansion of the Bakken NGL Pipeline has a target completion date of first-half 2016. The pipeline is currently being expanded to 135,000 bpd from an original capacity of 60,000 bpd. This previously announced initial expansion has a target completion date of third-quarter 2014.

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