The processing capacity at the Arapaho complex will increase by 60mmcf/d to a total of 220mmcf/d following the completion of the facility expansions in the third quarter of 2011,.
The gathering and processing expansions are supported by long-term agreements with producer customers.
The company said that its throughput volumes from the Granite Wash have increased to nearly 120 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) and are forecasted to continue increasing in 2011 and beyond.
Additionally, the company’s producer customers are focusing their drilling plans on the liquids-rich zones in the Granite Wash, which has significantly increased the percentage of rich-gas volumes that MarkWest is gathering and processing.
Hence, MarkWest will invest additional capital to expand its rich-gas gathering and compression facilities as well as its Arapaho processing complex.
