Six energy companies agreed to form Tri-States NGL Pipeline tobuild a natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline from Alabama andMississippi to Louisiana fractionators. The line will link threegas processing plants under construction to new and expandedfractionators on the Mississippi River.

Project participants are Amoco Pipeline, Enterprise ProductsCo., Koch Pipeline Southeast, a group led by Duke Energy FieldServices, Tejas Natural Gas Liquids, and a unit of Williams.

The common-carrier raw mix NGL line will have an initialcapacity of 80,000 barrels/d, with a final capacity of 150,000barrels/d. It will originate from gas plants in the Mobile Bayarea, including a 600 MMcf/d plant owned by Mobile Bay ProcessingPartners near Mobile, AL; a 600 MMcf/d Williams plant near Mobile;and a 1 Bcf/d plant owned by Shell and Amoco near Pascagoula, MS.Williams’ field services unit will operate the line, which isexpected to be in service by August.

Privately held Enterprise Products of Texas has fractionationfacilities in Texas and Mississippi, gas liquids pipelines inTexas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and underground gasliquids storage facilities in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.Tejas Natural Gas Liquids, an affiliate of Shell Oil, is the gasprocessing, treating, fractionation, storage and NGL marketingbusiness formerly operated by Shell in Louisiana, Texas andMississippi. It was formed following the merger of Shell’smidstream gas business with Tejas Gas earlier this year.

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