Kinder Morgan’s ongoing conversion of the Double H Pipeline to NGL service is only part of a larger plan by the midstream giant to move significant volumes of Bakken-sourced Y-grade from western North Dakota to fractionation centers in Kansas and the Texas Gulf Coast. The Double H, which until recently transported crude oil, runs only to eastern Wyoming, so how will NGLs on the pipeline — renamed Hiland Express — get from there to Conway, KS; Mont Belvieu, TX; and maybe Sweeny, TX, too? In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the likely flow paths for southbound Y-grade on Hiland Express, a new NGL takeaway alternative for Bakken gas processors.
The RBN Energy U.S. Propane Infrastructure map provides a comprehensive view of the propane supply network in the lower 48 states.
First, some background. As we said a while back in Take It To The Limit, crude-oil-focused wells in the Bakken generate large volumes of NGL-packed associated gas that need to be processed. There are five main ways to move NGLs out of the Bakken: (1) moving mixed NGLs south to Conway on ONEOK’s Elk Creek and Bakken NGL pipelines (purple and dark-pink lines, respectively, in Figure 1 below); (2) piping ethane north to Canada on Pembina’s Vantage Pipeline (light-orange line); (3) trucking or railing out so-called C3+ NGLs (propane, butanes and pentanes) — ethane can’t be transported that way; (4) entraining mixed NGLs within “wet” gas on Pembina’s Alliance pipeline (red line) to the Chicago area (where the NGLs are separated via fractionation); and (5) rejecting ethane into gas on the Northern Border pipeline (dark-blue line).
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About the song
“One Way or Another” was written by Debbie Harry and Nigel Harrison and appears as the second song on side one of Blondie’s third studio album, Parallel Lines. Harry wrote the lyrics about an ex-boyfriend who was hassling her about their breakup in the early 1970s. Released as a single in May 1979, it went to #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Personnel on the record were: Debbie Harry (vocals), Jimmy Destri (keyboards), Frank Infante (guitar), Chris Stein (guitar), Nigel Harrison (bass) and Clem Burke (drums). The boy band One Direction covered the song combined with the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” in 2013. Released as a charity single, their version went to #13 on the Hot 100 Singles chart and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Parallel Lines was recorded in June and July 1978 at the Record Plant in New York City with Mike Chapman producing. Chapman initially found the band unprofessional and difficult to work with, claiming there was a lot of animosity in the studio. However, after the success of Parallel Lines, the band and Chapman continued to work together and produced three more successful albums. The album was released in September 1978 and went to #6 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. According to rock critic Robert Christgau, it was a pop rock album in which Blondie achieved “a synthesis of The Dixie Cups and The Electric Prunes.” Six charting singles were released from the LP.
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. The two met in 1973 while playing together in the New York band The Stilettos. After leaving that band, they formed Blondie with drummer Clem Burke and bassist Gary Valentine. Blondie was a regular at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City before signing a record deal with Private Stock Records in 1975. They released two punk-oriented albums for that label before making changes to the band and signing with Chrysalis Records in 1977. After major mainstream success, the band broke up in November 1982, with members going different ways to various projects. Blondie reformed in 1997 and toured and recorded with original members Stein, Harry and Burke always on board. The band has released 11 studio albums, four live albums, 14 compilation albums, three EPs and 38 singles and has sold more than 40 million records worldwide.
Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Clem Burke died in April 2025. High Noon, a new album that Blondie plans to release in the spring of 2026, will include drum tracks recorded by Burke.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
