COVER SERIES: Oil pipeline growth easing transportation bottleneck 
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While activity is ramping up again in western North Dakota’s oil patch, the state’s booming oil and natural gas industries are running out of available space on existing pipelines to transport their product to refining facilities.
RELATED CONTENTCOVER SERIES: The future of coal
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With politicians placing a greater emphasis on environmentally-friendly energy sources and reducing the effects of global climate change, the coal industry finds itself wearing a giant bull’s eye. But the coal industry still figures to play a major role in the nation's energy future.
RELATED CONTENTDemise of Big Stone II project leaves energy, transmission void
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The fully permitted $1.6 billion Big Stone II power plant project would have resulted in the construction of a 500-megawatt to 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant next to the existing Big Stone plant near Milbank, SD.
RELATED CONTENTCOMPANY PROFILE: POET
Sioux Falls-based ethanol producer remains stable in face of challenging marketplace.
RELATED CONTENTThe prairie’s renewable energy opportunity
Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota have the potential to become clean energy powers. Sustainable biofuels and biomass crops, wind, solar, biogas and geothermal energy are all growing to meet the nation’s energy needs while reducing pollution and creating new business opportunities for rural America.
Optimism abounds at Great Plains Energy Expo
Harold Hamm says the pronouncements of the demise of the U.S. petroleum industry are premature.
RELATED CONTENTCellulosic ethanol moving closer to reality
The future is now for cellulosic ethanol. Roughly 300 million gallons of planned commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants are in various stages of planning and development across the country.
RELATED CONTENTRefinery would have massive impact on South Dakota economy
Dallas-based Hyperion Resources, a privately-held international energy company, plans to utilize 3,292 acres of Union County land outside Elk Point, SD, for an oil refinery and power plant. Pending all necessary approvals, construction on the Hyperion Energy Center could start by late 2010 and the facility could begin operating by 2014, according to Hyperion spokesman Eric Williams of Gallatin Public Affairs. Williams says the company is pursuing several state and federal permits before any concrete plans for construction take shape.
RELATED CONTENTSouth Dakota home harnesses solar power
Jim Johnson is using a model home in Worthing, SD, to demonstrate to homeowners and home builders how simple and effective solar energy has become in recent years.
RELATED CONTENTOil activity slowing in western North Dakota
Last year North Dakota had the second-highest rig count and second-most drilling permits issued in state history behind the boom year of 1981, which quickly turned to bust. The state also broke records for the number of producing oil and gas wells and daily crude oil production in 2008. At the end of the boom in November, 98 drilling rigs were active in North Dakota. But by March that number had been cut in half and continued to drop as oil companies retrench and cut capital expenditures in the face of lower crude prices and revenues.
RELATED CONTENTWilliston building off oil boom
Despite a drop in oil prices over the last six months, Williston is still humming with activity. It’s not as busy as it was at the height of the boom, but there is still plenty going on. Several new apartment complexes have sprung up or are in development, new housing subdivisions are planned and three new hotels are also in the works.
RELATED CONTENTEthanol industry may benefit from new administration
The region’s ethanol industry stands to benefit from the Obama Administration’s aggressive alternative energy agenda, which comes at a key time for the industry.
RELATED CONTENTSeismic survey first hint of oil impacts
Despite signs of slowing oilfield activity in the area, local residents and the seismographers’ oil company client are hoping to find data that could help Crosby, ND, become the next oil exploration hotspot in the massive Bakken Formation.
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