Sunday, September 28, 2025

Bakken: Davis Refinery Update

The plant will have emissions so low it won’t require an EPA permit – Meridian Energy Group, Inc. Davis Refinery 49,500 bpd state-of-the-art crude oil refinery, over 700 acres of land near Belfield, N.D. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line runs directly through the refinery site, facilitating the construction of a crude oil feedstock offloading and refined fuels uploading

Drones Monitor Pipelines Faster than Humans

Drone analyzes 100 km of pipeline anomalies in one hour, a task estimated to take one week for human manpower for inspection SkyX Systems Corporation has developed a drone system and tested it by collecting data in a flight over a 100 km (62 miles) pipeline. The SkyOne Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flew over an unnamed pipeline in Mexico collecting

Former MarkWest CEO John M. Fox to Marathon and MPLX: Your Multiple is Over the Top

Stated target value to eliminate Incentive Distribution Rights (IDRs) is in question: Fox says that Marathon Petroleum’s 15x – 20x multiple for elimination of IDRs will damage MPLX unitholders, including MPC, the largest MPLX unitholder John M. Fox, co-founder and former chairman, president and CEO of MarkWest Energy Partners, yesterday published two letters directed towards the MPLX GP LLC Conflicts

Enterprise Products Plans to Convert NGL Pipeline to Crude Oil

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (ticker: EPD) plans to convert one of its NGL pipelines to carry crude oil from the Permian Basin to Enterprise’s crude oil hub in the Houston area. The conversion is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020. This pipeline conversion would provide the partnership with total crude oil pipeline capacity of over 650,000