Ethylene

Service has begun on a 30,000-ton refrigerated ethylene storage tank at an export facility in Morgan’s Point, TX, owned through a 50-50 joint venture between affiliates of Enterprise Products Partners LP and Navigator Holdings Ltd., the companies announced Tuesday. The first vessel to utilize the service, a 21,000 cubic meter ethylene gas carrier, was loaded…

In a first for the U.S. midstream industry, Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) this month loaded combination cargoes of natural gas liquids (NGL) and olefins on the same vessel. The Houston-based operator said it completed the simultaneous loading of propane and polymer grade propylene into separate compartments on a very large gas carrier at its…

Enterprise Products Partners LP and Navigator Holdings Ltd. said Wednesday the first ethylene cargo has been shipped from their 50/50 joint venture marine terminal at Morgan’s Point on the Houston Ship Channel.

Saudi-owned Motiva Enterprises, which owns North America’s largest refinery, plans to add to its portfolio east of Houston with the purchase of Flint Hills Resources’ ethylene cracker.

Emergency crews on Wednesday afternoon were working to extinguish a fire that erupted at the ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant on the Houston Ship Channel, which houses one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.

Enterprise Products Partners LP said Tuesday it is extending its ethylene pipeline and logistics system further into South Texas to take advantage of a growing list of crackers and ethylene derivative plants underway to accommodate oil and gas growth from the Lower 48.

Fed by ample natural gas stocks, Shell Chemical LP has begun producing from its fourth alpha olefins (AO) unit at its Geismar, LA, chemical manufacturing site, bringing total output to more than 1.3 million metric tons/year (mmty).

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.

Enterprise Products Partners LP, which has quickly secured more liquids takeaway from the Permian Basin, saidconstruction has begun east of Houston with partner Navigator Holdings Ltd. to build an ethylene export terminal.