Anya Litvak of the Pittsburgh Business Times has written the following article for Energy, Inc. You can access the full article here.
Enterprise Product Partners has secured enough contracts to start building its 1,230-mile pipeline to carry ethane extracted from the Marcellus and Utica shales to Gulf Coast markets. There, the natural gas liquid will be used in petrochemical production.
Chesapeake Energy which has been busy making deals to develop its Marcellus and Utica acreage, is the anchor client on the pipeline, which should be operational in 2014. Here’s the route:
“Originating in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the first leg of the system would involve construction of approximately 595 miles of new pipeline extending to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, closely paralleling an existing Enterprise pipeline. At Cape Girardeau, Enterprise will reverse a 16-inch diameter pipeline and place it into ethane service.
“At the southern terminus of the ATEX Express pipeline, Enterprise will be constructing a 55-mile, 16-inch diameter pipeline to provide shippers with access to the partnership’s natural gas liquids storage complex at Mont Belvieu, Texas, giving them direct or indirect access to every ethylene plant in the United States.”
With up to 190,000 barrels per day slated to move from this region to Gulf Coast crackers through this pipeline, will there be enough ethane left over for Shell’s Marcellus cracker, wherever that ends up?
The countdown is on for Shell’s announcement of which state — Pennsylvania, West Virginia or Ohio — will host this multi-billion dollar facility. The company said it will tell us this month.
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