ONEOK Partners, LP’s 100-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility in eastern McKenzie County, N.D.—the Garden Creek II plant—is now operational. The new plant is part of the partnership's previously announced $7.0 billion to $7.5 billion capital-growth program through 2016.

“ONEOK Partners’ Williston Basin natural gas processing capacity now exceeds 500 MMcf/d—five times more than our processing capacity in the region was in 2010—and we expect that number to grow to more than 600 MMcf/d during the fourth quarter of this year, when the Garden Creek III plant is completed,” said Terry K. Spencer, president CEO of ONEOK Partners. “Increased natural gas processing capacity also will lead to a reduction of natural gas flaring in North Dakota.”

The partnership’s Williston Basin natural gas processing capacity is expected to increase to approximately 1.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by third-quarter 2016 following the completion of additional natural gas infrastructure in the region, including:

  • The Garden Creek III plant, a 100-MMcf/d natural gas processing facility in the Williston Basin, which is expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2014; and expansions and upgrades to existing natural gas gathering and compression infrastructure;
  • The Lonesome Creek plant, a 200-MMcf/d natural gas processing facility in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, which is expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2015; and expansions and upgrades to existing natural gas gathering and compression infrastructure;
  • The Demicks Lake plant, a 200-MMcf/d natural gas processing facility in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, which is expected to be completed in third-quarter 2016; and expansions and upgrades to the existing gathering and compression infrastructure; and
  • The construction of additional natural gas compression to take advantage of additional natural gas processing capacity as a result of better than expected plant performance at the partnership’s existing and planned Garden Creek and Stateline natural gas processing plants in the Williston Basin by a total of 100 MMcf/d, which is expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2015.