Processing

Calgary-based Aux Sable Liquid Products LP plans to spend $130 million to increase processing capabilities at its facilities in Channahon, IL.

Two new cryogenic processing plants are expected to begin operations in Ohio’s Utica Shale this month, representing a combined 400 MMcf/d of capacity for producers in the region with shut-in wells waiting for it.

Denver-based Meritage Midstream Service II LLC has completed and brought online its new natural gas processing plant, 50 Buttes, in Campbell County, WY. It will serve producers in the Powder River Basin (PRB).

Analysts with Wells Fargo Securities LLC said natural gas processing capacity has been keeping pace with the significant growth of gas production in the United States, especially since the shale revolution.

Oneok Partners LP plans to invest $480-680 million between now and the end of 3Q2016 to build two natural gas processing facilities and associated infrastructure in North Dakota and Wyoming, the partnership said Monday.

Closing in on 1 Bcf/d of gas processing capacity in North Dakota, Oklahoma-based Oneok Partners Inc. on Wednesday opened its new Garden Creek II processing plant, adding 100 MMcf/d of capacity in the Williston Basin.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP said Tuesday that it will once again expand processing and fractionation capacity at its Keystone complex in western Pennsylvania, primarily in support of Rex Energy Corp.’s growing operations there.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP continues to implement its efforts to meet growing demand for natural gas processing in the Appalachian Basin, saying it placed into service five major infrastructure projects during 2Q2014 and will construct seven more projects this year.

Tulsa, OK-based Oneok Partners LP on Wednesday outlined plans for investing up to $785 million over the next two years to build natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) processing, compression and pipelines to move Bakken Shale-produced supplies from the Williston Basin in North Dakota.