Northern Tier cuts out Bakken Shale ‘middlemen’

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Houston—Northern Tier Energy has eliminated some marketing “middlemen” by sourcing North Dakota Bakken Shale crude at the wellhead through a new trucking endeavor, the refiner’s chief operating officer said Tuesday. The refiner is “seeing substantial savings” by “obtaining crude at the source and removing some of those middlemen,” Chet Kuchta said during the company’s second quarter earnings call.