On May 16 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 8 office issued the final air quality permit to construct a new natural gas compressor station proposed by Arrow Midstream Holdings LLC as part of an expansion of its crude, gas and produced water gathering system primarily on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota’s Dunn and McKenzie counties.
Arrow Midstream Holdings is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crestwood Midstream Partners.
The “final synthetic minor permit” was issued “pursuant to the Tribal Minor New Source Review Program at 40 CFR Part 49 (MNSR).”
The permit will be effective on June 15, allowing 30 days for anyone who “filed comments on the proposed permit or participated in the public hearing” to petition EPA’s appeals board to review any condition of the permit decision.
At the end of March Arrow handled approximately 50,000 barrels of oil per day, 23,000 million cubic feet of gas, and 17,000 barrels of water, and was connected to approximately 300 wells, anticipating an annual growth rate of about 100 wells.
By 2015, expansions are expected to increase crude oil throughput capacity on the Arrow system in northern Dunn and southeastern McKenzie counties to 125,000 bpd, natural gas throughput to 100 mcfd and water throughput to 40,000 bpd.
According to Doug Lee, senior vice president of operations, Arrows system “is a solution to the needs of producers to move natural gas, crude oil and produced water from well pads to market. Arrow purchases natural gas and crude oil and takes ownership of produced water at the well pad. The products are then transported through approximately 485 miles of pipelines comprised of approximately 150 miles of crude oil pipelines; 170 miles of natural gas pipelines and 165 miles of produced water pipelines in approximately 150 miles of rights of way. The system currently has five compressor stations in operation as well as two water pump stations and one crude oil pump station.”
