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North Dakota Refinery Could Make Fuel for Bunker Market
A new refinery planned for the oil-rich U.S. state of North Dakota will produce fuel oil that may be sold for marine bunkering, according to Dakota Oil Processing LLC, which is developing the project.
"The atmospheric tower bottoms could be sold into the bunker fuel market," the company says on its website.
The 20,000 barrel-per-day facility will process light sweet crude and sell No. 1 and No. 2 ultra low sulphur diesel refined as its primary products, with naphtha, residual fuel oil, and elemental sulphur as secondary products.
The Trenton Diesel Refinery, is one of two such facilities being built in North Dakota to take advantage of new wells in the Bakken Formation in the state, which have created a boom in crude oil production while also increasing demand for diesel fuel and kerosene for trucking and industrial use, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The other refinery, known as the Dakota Prairie facility, has already broken ground and is scheduled to be built over the next 20 months, while the Trenton Diesel Refinery has not yet announced a start-up date.
