Dakota Plains Holdings Inc. and Hiland Crude LLC executed an interconnection agreement to link Dakota Plains’ Pioneer Rail Terminal in New Town, N.D., with Hiland’s Market Center Gathering System crude oil pipeline network. Construction of the final link has started and is expected to be commissioned by Oct. 31.
The Market Center Gathering System is the largest in the Bakken, crossing Divide, Dunn, Mountrail, McKenzie and Williams counties, N.D., as well as Richland and Roosevelt counties, Mont. It has multiple connection points into pipeline outlets and crude-by-rail terminals, with the Pioneer Terminal being the only Canadian Pacific Railway origin. The connection is expected to have an initial capacity of more than 15,000 barrels a day (bbl/d) of oil, with the option to expand to about 60,000 bbl/d.
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