Oneok Partners LP is drawing up plans to build a natural gas liquids (NGL) gathering pipeline to connect two gas processing plants in the Woodford Shale play in southeast Oklahoma to the partnership’s Midcontinent gathering system.

These two plants would have the ability to produce 25,000 bbl/d of raw NGL. The 78-mile pipeline extension would transport raw NGL from a gas processing plant being built by Devon Energy Corp. in Hughes County, OK, and a recently constructed gas processing plant owned by Antero Resources Midstream Corp. in Coal County, OK. The $25 million extension of six- and eight-inch diameter pipeline is scheduled for completion in 2Q2008.

“Our supplies of raw natural gas liquids continue to grow from expansions in areas such as the Woodford Shale, resulting in increased NGL volumes being gathered into our Midcontinent NGL gathering system,” said Terry Spencer, executive vice president of Oneok Partners’ NGL business. “When we complete our Arbuckle Pipeline in early 2009, we will be able to transport these additional NGL barrels to our Mont Belvieu, TX, fractionation facility. As a result, Arbuckle will not only be moving NGLs from the Barnett Shale play of north-central Texas, it will also transport natural gas liquids from Oklahoma.”

Oneok Partner’s Arbuckle Pipeline, which is expected to be complete by early 2009, is designed to initially transport up to 160,000 bbl/d of raw NGL (see Daily GPI, Oct. 9, 2007; March 20, 2007). Originating from the partnership’s existing Midcontinent NGL network in Oklahoma, the 440-mile pipeline would pass through the Barnett Shale area and connect with the existing fractionation facility at Mont Belvieu and other Gulf Coast-area fractionators.

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