ONEOK Partners Plans Major Growth Project Investments

ONEOK Partners, L.P said it plans to invest approximately $980 million to $1.1 billion between now and 2014 to: * Build a 75,000 natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionator, MB-3, at Mont Belvieu, TX, and related infrastructure; * Build a 100 MMcf/d natural gas processing facility – the Garden Creek II plant – in eastern McKenzie County, ND, in the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin, and related infrastructure; * Increase capacity on the Bakken NGL Pipeline to 135,000 bpd from 60,000 bpd; and * Build a 40,000-bpd ethane/propane (E/P) splitter at Mont Belvieu.