ONEOK, Inc. announced that it had put into operation its Elk Creek Pipeline, which has the capacity to move up to 240,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids to a fractionation complex in Kansas.
The much-anticipated 900-mile, $1.4 billion project will have an immediate impact on the ability of North Dakota producers to capture and process more natural gas.
“The completion of Elk Creek provides critical NGL transportation to producers in the Williston, Powder River and Denver-Julesburg basins,” said Terry K. Spencer, ONEOK President and CEO. “Elk Creek, combined with ONEOK’s investments in additional natural gas processing infrastructure in the region, will help producers significantly reduce natural gas currently flaring in North Dakota.”
Lynn Helms, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, said the pipeline will allow several other processing plants that had been constrained by lack of takeaway capacity to operate at full capacity.
According to ONEOK, Elk Creek has the capability to be expanded to 400,000 bpd with additional pump facilities. ONEOK officials expect total Rocky Mountain NGL volume transported on the Elk Creek and Bakken NGL pipelines to reach more than 240,000 bpd by the end of the first quarter 2020.
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