Phillips 66 has completed a $1.4 billion infrastructure upgrade near its Houston Ship Channel facilities to serve the Permian Shale and Eagle Ford Shale.

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Houston-based Phillips 66 management said operations have begun on two natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation plants at its Sweeny Hub in Old Ocean, TX, south of Houston. With a combined capacity of 300,000 b/d, the fractionators are considered two of the largest in the world.

S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd. completed the work this month. They were on time even as peak construction occurred during rising cases of coronavirus in the country, executives noted.

The project added the second and third fractionation plants to the original first train built for Phillips 66 in 2015.

The milestone positions Phillips “as a...