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BISMARCK – Bakken Midstream Natural Gas, LLC, a developer of value-added natural gas infrastructure in North Dakota, announced Tuesday it has signed an informal agreement for its first ethane supply to support a large-scale, baseload power plant. The Williston Basin Energy Center will be the largest power plant to utilize advances in combustion turbine technology that use ethane as the primary fuel source. The Energy Center will be located in the Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative territory near Williston, subject to final operational and power purchase agreements. In October 2020, Bakken Midstream announced it had secured nearly $25 million from two separate capital raises for the purpose of bringing the value-added natural gas industry to North Dakota, including ethane-fueled power generation projects and related pipelines and infrastructure. Funding efforts were led by Executive Chairman Steven Lebow, along with North Dakota business leaders, including Gene Nicholas, Ron Offutt and Stephen Stenehjem. “For more than three years, we have been working to address the challenges ethane poses to North Dakota’s oil and gas sectors and find innovative ways to address those challenges and meet the state’s new power generation needs. We set an extremely high bar for ourselves with the mandate to reimagine […]
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