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North Dakota Needs an Oil Refinery
March 18, 2010 | MSN

Drillers in North Dakota have been extremely successful in producing oil from newly discovered fields. However, they have not been as successful in finding ways to get the crude to market – because there is not enough pipeline capacity for all of the oil. However, if they had more refining capacity the state could become a distribution point.


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