Enterprise Products Partners today announced it completed the last segment of a Texas-to-Louisiana ethane pipeline and the final phase of an LPG export terminal expansion on the Houston Ship Channel.
Enterprise started up the remaining 162-mile portion of its Aegis ethane pipeline, which originates at its Mont Belvieu, Texas, complex and terminates in the Napoleonville, Louisiana, area. The company said customers have executed contracts totaling 360,000 barrels per day that will ramp up over the next four years. The Aegis pipeline is part of a broader ethane header system that serves more than 20 petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana.
Enterprise also completed a project to increase the loading rate its Houston Ship Channel LPG export terminal from 16,500 barrels per hour to 27,500 barrels per hour. The project included the addition of a new refrigeration train that increased loading capacity from 9 million barrels per month to 16 million barrels per month.
Enterprise is investing $7.8 billion in capital growth projects that are set to come online by the end of 2017.
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