Ethane

Enterprise Products Partners LP is moving forward with an expansion of its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX) ethane pipeline after a successful open season landed the customer commitments needed to greenlight the project.

A subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical pcl has reached a settlement with three environmental groups to resolve their appeal of the air permit for the company’s proposed multi-billion dollar ethane cracker in southeast Ohio.

Enterprise Products Partners LP on Thursday pulled the trigger to build a second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at its Mont Belvieu complex in Texas, in partnership with petrochemical giant LyondellBasell Industries NV.

Enterprise Products Partners LP said Monday it’s testing support for up to 50,000 b/d of additional capacity on its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX) ethane pipeline.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem) said Monday it is working with the world’s largest natural gas producer, Qatar Petroleum (QP), to develop a petrochemicals complex in Qatar.

PTT Global Chemical pcl (PTTGC) and Daelim Industrial Co. continue to work toward sanctioning the multi-billion dollar ethane cracker proposed for southeast Ohio, a project spokesman said this week.

The Delaware County District Attorney’s (DA) office in southeast Pennsylvania said it has opened a second criminal investigation into the construction and operation of the Mariner East (ME) 1, 2 and 2X projects.

After growing by an estimated 600,000 b/d in 2018, natural gas liquids (NGL) are expected to see a slower pace of growth in the next couple of years amid possible headwinds from demand and the timeline for infrastructure projects entering service, particularly Energy Transfer LP’s (ET) Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline and its companion Mariner East 2X (ME2X), according to BofA Merrill Lynch.

What would be the Appalachian Basin’s second multi-billion dollar ethane cracker has finally secured all the major regulatory approvals needed to move forward after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) completed its environmental review and issued the project’s final permits as 2018 came to an end.