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| A New Oil refinery in North Dakota |
| 2011-12-07 |
| Summary: Diesel fuel demand is sky high for drilling rigs as well as for the trucks and trains hauling the oil out. Railroads are hauling 10,000 tons of oil to Louisana refineries. Regularly. The new ND refinery is quite small, (20,000 bpd) but looks like permitting is mostly complete. Maybe it flies beneath the EPA radar? Mostly talking about the Bakken formation in ND, but Eagle Ford shale in Texas is also mentioned. The Superconducting Supercollider was started in the (Austin Chalk) formation just above the Eagle Ford, which I believe stretches from Dallas to Houston, maybe to San Antonio. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #2 Need more refineries! Build more near Canada to take advantage of the oil sands. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-12-07 17:02 |
| #1 North Dakota regularly experiences seasonal diesel fuel crunches - harvest time means the heavy farming equipment needs fuel much in excess of the baseline diesel fuel need. Now with massive increase in baseline diesel demands with the western ND petro boom, it makes sense to create diesel locally for local consumption. Keep in mind ND's population in 2010 was 672,000 - many more than that live within 30 miles of my home. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-07 15:47 |