Terminal

A South Texas onshore crude oil export terminal capable of servicing fully laden very large crude carriers (VLCC) could be up and running by 2020, the Port of Corpus Christi and The Carlyle Group said Monday.

Just weeks after Enterprise Products Partners LP said that it is considering building a crude oil terminal offshore Texas, management on Wednesday said they’re also mulling another propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility and adding more natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation capacity to the company’s extensive midstream portfolio along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A top contender to make the delayed launch of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas exports is seeking permission to keep on trying for another five years.

Canadian natural gas developers aim to build overseas export outlets for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) byproducts that are on the rise as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing spread in northern Alberta and British Columbia (BC) shale deposits.

With Sabine Pass Train 3 online and Train 4 poised to begin taking feedgas in the coming days, Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal could be pulling 3 Bcf/d from the U.S. natural gas market by the second quarter, Barclays Research said in a note Wednesday.

Tallgrass Energy Partners LP (TEP) has purchased two entities from Tallgrass Development, its privately held affiliate, in a $140 million dropdown, the company announced Tuesday.

Phillips 66 said its Freeport LPG Export Terminal in Freeport, TX, is now fully operational. The company loaded its first contracted cargo on the Commander, a very large gas carrier that departed the terminal Friday.

Enterprise Products Partners LP said the first cargo of ethane from its Morgan’s Point, TX, terminal has departed. The M/V JS INEOS Intrepid, loaded with about 265,000 bbl of ethane, set sail from the facility Thursday morning en route to the INEOS facility at Rafnes in Norway. The Morgan’s Point facility, which is the largest of its kind in the world, has a design loading capacity of 10,000 bbl/hour. “The driving force behind development of the terminal is the growing international demand for abundant U.S. ethane from shale plays, which offers the global petrochemical industry a low-cost feedstock option and supply diversification,” Enterprise said (see Daily GPI, July 28). Supply for the terminal is sourced from Enterprise’s natural gas liquids fractionation and storage complex in Mont Belvieu, TX, and transported through a new 18-mile, 24-inch diameter pipeline that was completed in February. The Mont Belvieu complex is connected to ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shales through the ATEX pipeline (see Shale Daily, Dec. 5, 2013).

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) veterans Martin Houston and Charif Souki have applied at FERC to begin the pre-filing review of the first Gulf Coast terminal project of a venture they founded earlier this year.