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Gary G. Loop

Chief operating officer and senior vice president of Dakota Gasification Company

Chief operating officer and senior vice president of Dakota Gasification Company; employed with Basin Electric since 2006; experience in refinery and crude oil industries, process engineering, operations supervision, and planning and scheduling since 1982. B.S. chemical engineering, University of California-Davis, 1972; M.B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1978.

Gary G. Loop, chief operating officer and senior vice president of Dakota Gasification Company, a major subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, has served in the refinery and crude oil industry since 1972, working in process engineering, operations supervision, planning and scheduling, which includes six years as vice president of crude oil marketing with a major refining and fuels company. He has also worked for an investor-owned natural gas and electric utility, including three-and-a-half years as chief executive officer of a privatized power company in Zambia, Africa.

A Berkeley, CA, native, Loop joined Dakota Gasification Company on May 22, 2006.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1972 and a master’s degree in business administration from California State University, Long Beach, in 1978.

A for-profit subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Dakota Gasification Company (Dakota Gas) owns and operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant (Synfuels Plant) near Beulah, ND. The Synfuels Plant gasifies lignite coal to produce pipeline quality synthetic gas. The average gross daily production is 145 million standard cubic feet of synthetic gas (MMSCF). Dakota Gas also produces and markets byproducts and coproducts, e.g., anhydrous ammonia, ammonium sulfate, carbon dioxide (CO2), phenol, crude cresylic acid, krypton/xenon gases, liquid nitrogen, and naphtha. Dakota Gas has one for-profit subsidiary, Souris Valley Pipeline LTD, which delivers a daily average of more than 152 MMSCF of CO2 to two Canadian oil fields for enhanced oil recovery and sequestration. The Synfuels Plant is the only commercial-scale coal gasification plant in the United States.