Terminal

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.

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.

NextDecade LLC has filed at FERC for its proposed 27 million tonne per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, which would be sited near Brownsville, TX, at the Port of Brownsville, along with an associated 137-mile pipeline system from the Agua Dulce Hub.

NextDecade LLC has filed at FERC for its proposed 27 million tonne per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, which would be sited near Brownsville, TX, at the Port of Brownsville, along with an associated 137-mile pipeline system from the Agua Dulce Hub.