Koch Pipeline Co. called off plans to build a 250,000-barrel-a-day crude line to Illinois from North Dakota ’s Bakken formation, where a shale boom has helped lift domestic production to the highest in a quarter-century. The indirect subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc., one of the largest private companies in the U.S., is no longer developing the so-called Dakota Express pipeline, Jake Reint, a Koch spokesman, said by e-mail yesterday. He didn’t provide a reason for the decision. The Wichita, Kansas-based company was scheduled to begin a 45-day open season to gauge interest from potential shippers on the line in July. “The non-binding open season for the Dakota Express pipeline is no longer being pursued,” Reint, based in Wichita, said in the e-mail. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have helped producers reach shale deposits of oil across the middle of the U.S. from North Dakota to Texas , sending domestic […]