MOSCOW (MRC) -- Houston pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners has started operations at two new natural gas processing plants last week, reported Oil&Gas360.
The company announced on Thursday morning that it had started its Bulldog cryogenic natural gas processing plant in the Haynesville Shale of East Texas.
Located in Panola County, the plant, can process 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and extract up to 12,000 barrels of natural gas liquids per day.
The East Texas announcement comes two days after Enterprise started its Mentone cryogenic natural gas processing plant in the Permian Basin of West Texas.
Located in Loving County, the plant can process 300 million cubic feet of natural per day and extract more than 40,000 barrels of natural gas liquids per day.
Founded in 1968 with a pair of propane delivery trucks, the Houston pipeline operator has more than 7,000 employees across the United States.
Enterprise, the largest exporter of crude oil and natural gas liquids in the US, reported a USD4.2 billion profit and USD36.5 billion in revenue in 2018.
As MRC informed before, Enterprise Products Partners and LyondellBasell Industries said in September 2019 they had executed long-term contracts to support construction of EPD's second propane dehydrogenation plant at the Mont Belvieu, Tex. complex. The decision to build the PDH 2 plant stems from recently executed long-term polymer grade propane (PGP) supply contracts between Enterprise and LyondellBasell Industries N.V.
Besides, we remind that Enterprise Products Partners' Mont Belvieu PDH in Texas restarted from planned maintenance in the first week of December, 2019. The PDH unit went offline for maintenance on November 13, 2019. That day, the company said in a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that the RAC "B" turbine shut down, which resulted in flaring. The flaring was estimated to last 72 hours. The unit has a capacity of 750,000 mt/year.
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According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the PP consumption in the Russian market was 1,161,830 tonnes in January-November 2019, up by 7% year on year. Deliveries of all grades of propylene polymers increased, with the homopolymer PP segment accounting for the largest increase.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is an American midstream natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004. The company ranked No. 105 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue
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