Enterprise Products Partners, Anadarko Petroleum and Enbridge Energy Partners announced their plans to build a new natural gas liquids pipeline connecting the Texas Panhandle to propane central, Mont Belvieu, according to a recent FuelFix.com report. Because NGLs like propane can’t be transported through the same pipelines as natural gas, they need their own system. As […]
An Enterprise Products Partners pipeline carrying natural gas liquids leaked approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel into an Iowa section of the Missouri River on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said controllers detected a drop in pressure in the pipeline between Nebraska and Iowa early Saturday morning and immediately shut it […]
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard any news from Mont Belvieu, Texas, home of the country’s biggest propane hub and storage facility. Since the town consistently defines pricing and trends for propane nationwide, we checked in! Here’s the skinny: Late last month, Enterprise Products Partners LP began construction of a new NGL fractionation facility in […]
The Vitol Group, one of the world’s largest independent energy traders, and its subsidiary Coastal Caverns, Inc. (CCI) unveiled plans to build a new propane export facility in Beaumont, Texas, where the company is already developing a large LPG storage plant. Based out of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Vitol trades more than 5.5 barrels of crude […]
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced its plan to expand its operation in propane’s powerhouse town Mont Belvieu, Texas, with a new fractionation facility. Slated to be ready for operation in 2013, administrators expect the new facility will enable Enterprise to fractionate over 450,000 barrels per day at its Mont Belvieu complex alone. “The additional capacity […]
DCP Midstream, the largest natural gas liquids producer and one of the largest propane marketers in the country, announced it has acquired the Seaway Products Pipeline Company and plans to expand transportation capacity between America’s two biggest propane hubs, Mont Belvieu, Texas, and Conway, Kansas. By extending the newly renamed Southern Hills Pipeline by 130 […]
One of the twisters ripping through Oklahoma on Tuesday badly damaged a Devon Energy Corp. natural gas processing plant, interrupting production for what could be several months, the Dow Jones Newswires reported. Despite the property damage, Devon employees counted themselves lucky, as no one was hurt at the facility. Workers were forewarned and camped out […]