MOSCOW (MRC) -- Pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners could repurpose some of its vast U.S. network of energy pipelines for carbon capture and sequestration projects, said Reuters.
The company said that it believes wind and solar energy will play an important role in the future energy mix and in reducing global emissions. It also emphasised its commitment to lower emissions in natural gas, NGLs and lower sulfur crude oil.
The company is already clearing its path towards using more clean energy in its business. In March 2020 Enterprise Products signed a 100 MWac solar power purchase agreement from the Space City Solar project located in Wharton County, Texas. The project will begin delivery of clean electricity in Summer 2022.
At the same time, the company is currently expanding the role of hydrogen in its mix. With the completion of PDH2, the company will handle 100 MMScf/day of hydrogen, equivalent to a world scale plant, the company said. Enterprise has previously revealed plans to use hydrogen as fuel for heaters of PDH2. The move would significantly reduce carbon emission to almost 90% or 450,000 tonnes/year.
The PDH2 unit will begin operations in Q2 2023. It also sees potential in the Gulf Coast salt dome for hydrogen storage and distribution services.
As MRC informed previously, Enterprise Product Partners' PDH unit in Mont Belvieu was taken off-line for a turnaround in early February. Thus, the PDH unit was shut for scheduled maintenance on Feb. 1 for approximately six weeks. This PDH unit has the capacity of 750,000 mt/y of propylene.
Propylene is the main feedstock for the production of polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's PP shipments to the Russian market were 1,226,530 tonnes in January-October 2021, up by 26% year on year. Supply of propylene homopolymers (homopolymer PP) and block-copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymers) increased, whereas supply of injection moulding stat-copolymers of propylene (PP random copolymers) decreased significantly.
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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