Production • Processing • Handling
Batching crude and condensates
New pipelines and terminals dominate oil and gas handling developments. Multi-million dollar investments are making the handling of both oil and gas much more efficient. Eugene McCarthy reports.
Eugene McCarthy informa que nuevas tuberías y terminales dominan los desarrollos de gestión de petróleo y gas. Varias inversiones de varios millones de dólares facilitan la eficiencia del petróleo y gas.
Neue Pipelines und Terminals bestimmen die Entwicklungen in der Handhabung von Öl und Gas. Mehrere Millionen Dollar wurden in die effizientere Handhabung von Öl und Gas investiert. Eugene McCarthy berichtet.
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inder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) has entered into an agreement with a large Eagle Ford Shale producer to extend the Kinder Morgan Crude
and Condensate (KMCC) pipeline farther into the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, USA.
Te company will invest approximately US$74 million (€55 million) to build an 18-mile, 24-inch diameter lateral pipeline north-west from its DeWitt Station to a new facility in Gonzales County, where KMP will construct 300,000 barrels of storage, a pipeline pump station and truck offloading facilities. Te lateral will have a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day and will enable Kinder Morgan to batch Eagle Ford crude and condensate from the new Gonzales Station via KMCC to its delivery points on the Houston ship channel and/or the soon to be completed Sweeny lateral pipeline serving the Phillips 66 Sweeny refinery in Brazoria County, Texas. Including joint ventures and other projects, KMP’s planned investments related to Eagle Ford Shale crude and condensates currently total almost US$900 million (€665 million). Completion is due in early 2015.
Meanwhile Enterprise Products Partners has announced the construction of a new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) export terminal on the Gulf coast. Te facility will have the capability of handling up to very large gas carriers (VLGC) class ships. Te initial loading rate for export grade
propane or butane service is expected to be approximately 11,000 barrels/hour, which would equate to approximately 6-6.5 million barrels/month. Following the completion of the site evaluation at potential locations in Louisiana and Texas, this new LPG marine terminal is expected to be in service in the fourth quarter of 2015. Upon completion of the new terminal, and the recently announced expansion of the partnership’s existing terminal on the Houston ship channel, Enterprise will have aggregate capacity to load approximately 15-16 million barrels per month of low-ethane propane and/or butane at its LPG marine terminals. With the development of this second
export marine terminal, Enterprise will be able to offer customers what it describes as unparalleled operational flexibility and reliability.
Each of these terminals will have separate, dedicated pipelines that supply
Fig. 1. Apache has a 65 per cent interest in the Julimar development project and is the operator.
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