Success Story Steel-Reinforced Pipe Enables Crucial Bakken Pipeline Installation in Extreme Weather The Challenge The Bakken oil field has been on the rise as a hot shale play since 2007, when technology made it economically feasible to extract oil from this reserve. While the Bakken region has great potential, with over 18 billion bbl of recoverable oil, the region presents many operational challenges, including extreme weather and rugged terrain. As oil production in the Bakken oil field increased in 2008, a large pipeline operator wanted to tap into the shale, initially with 35 wells and possibly with another 200 wells over time. To keep the project on schedule, the operator needed to expedite the installation of several 4-inch, 1000-psi (70 bar) lateral pipelines before winter conditio

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