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Bakken Energy, Cummins and Schneider partner on design of the Heartland Hydrogen Hub for long-haul trucking

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Bakken Energy, a developer of affordable clean hydrogen supply, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with each of Cummins Inc. The industry-led Hub will include Bakken Energy’s large scale affordable clean hydrogen production. and Schneider National Carriers Inc.,

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Quantum Energy and Bilfinger Westcon partner to develop multiple refineries in the North Dakota-Montana Bakken formation

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Quantum Energy, Inc. Bilfinger Westcon is currently constructing a diesel refinery project in Dickinson, North Dakota expected to be completed around the end of this year. Bilfinger Westcon is currently constructing a diesel refinery project in Dickinson, North Dakota expected to be completed around the end of this year.

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Badlands NGL to develop $4B plant in North Dakota to convert ethane from Bakken NGLs into polyethylene

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Badlands NGL, LLC, announced the development of a North Dakota manufacturing plant that will convert ethane (C 2 H 6 ), a byproduct of natural gas processing, into polyethylene, which is used to make a wide variety of end-use consumer and industrial plastics. The project will be the largest private investment in state history.

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North Dakota awards Tesoro $500K to support $3.5M renewable diesel co-processing project at refinery; 5% renewable diesel blend

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The North Dakota Industrial Commission has awarded Tesoro $500,000 to support a $3.5-million North Dakota made the award under its Renewable Energy Council Grant Round 33. The co-processed RD will generate about 1.7 D5 RINs per gallon. The current market value of a RIN is approximately $1 per RIN.

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EIA: rising North Dakota oil production and demand spurs two new small refineries

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One of two new small (20,000 bbl/d each) refineries being built in North Dakota 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. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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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, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.

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Flaring practices allow more methane into the atmosphere than thought; simple fixes can have big impact

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Multiple flares observed in operation in the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, 2021. Industry and regulators operate under the assumption flares are constantly lit and that they burn off 98% of methane when in operation. A paper on the work is published in Science. —Genevieve Plant, lead author.