U.S. gas fields are pumping out more natural gas liquids (NGLs) than ever before, and some states are struggling to handle the haul. West Virginia has become a net exporter of propane — though the state is a modest consumer. In addition, ethane has become so abundant that production may need to be curtailed, according […]
With new extraction techniques tapping into new gas reserves, natural gas liquids (NGLs) are flowing like never before. In 2010, output hit an all-time high, with more than 2 million barrels produced a day, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said today. Propane and ethane accounted for most of the NGL boost; propane was about 30-percent […]
It’s a tale of two shales, and two energy companies bulking up their processing capacity for natural gas liquids (NGLs). Two midstream gas players are putting billions into infrastructure to help handle the NGLs flowing from two of the country’s shale gas fields, according to the investing site The Wall Street Transcript. The Houston-based Enterprise […]
What’s the difference between wet natural gas and dry natural gas? About $3 per thousand cubic feet. They were telling that one in Wheeling, W. Va. yesterday, when a trio of natural gas boosters met with the citizenry, according to the local Intelligencer. And it was surely welcome news in Wheeling (nickname: The Friendly City), […]
To accommodate the natural gas liquids (NGLs) flowing out of the Marcellus shale, three separate energy companies have proposed building pipelines running to refineries in Louisiana or Ontario. Though it appears not all three ventures will lay pipe, and a $550 million project from Houston’s Kinder Morgan appears to have the most momentum, according to […]
There is a list of questions being raised about the thousands of new gas wells that now dot the American landscape. (And The New York Times recently asked a lot of them in their Pulitzer-bound package on the national gas boom titled “Drilling Down.”) But here’s a practical question for property owners who may be […]
From Texas to West Virginia to the New York Stock Exchange, the term “natural gas liquids” has been popping up in recent headlines. These NGLs, which include propane, are a family of chemically-related organic gases, and are part of the haul from the country’s gasfields — or more precisely, the “wet” fields. And what links […]
After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico this spring, a few million barrels of crude oil came gushing into the water, along with plenty of hydrocarbon gases: propane, ethane, and mostly methane. But unlike the crude cleanup, which has involved long hours of shovels and buckets and sifting machines, nature […]