A few weeks ago, Reese Energy Consulting shared news on a nonbinding open season to gauge interest in the proposed 375-mile Bakken East Pipeline project—an idea coddled for 10 years—which would flow natural gas east to near Fargo, N.D. Since our post, we’ve followed the latest from the Williston Basin, where Kinder Morgan, the deeper middle Three Forks formation, and CO2 enhanced oil recovery are making lots of noise worth hearing.

KMI has announced its subsidiary, Hiland Partners Holdings—which it purchased 10 years ago this month for $3 billion—will gobble up Outrigger Energy II’s gathering and processing network in the Land of the Bakken. The $640 million deal includes a 104-mile rich gas gathering system with 350 MMCFD of capacity and a 270 MMCFD processing plant, adding more velocity to its midstream engine there.

The Bakken may have peaked, considered in decline, but you can hardly count it out as one of the nation’s largest oil-bearing plays inside the Williston Basin, which is proving she has more riches to yield. That would be the middle Three Forks formation that’s said to contain hundreds of millions of barrels of untapped oil. You’ll find the basin’s largest operators here, including Continental Resources, ConocoPhillips, and Chord Energy.

Meanwhile, what many Bakken producers long for now is more C02 for enhanced oil recovery that could double the basin’s crude oil volumes. According to the North Dakota Petroleum Council, this means N.D., producing 5 billion Bbls of oil this year—and more captured C02 for EOR going forward that could extend the basin’s life another 30-50 years.