Enterprise Products Partners, a North American provider of midstream energy services, said that it has completed the installation of two eight-inch diameter pipelines that will increase throughput capacity of natural gas liquids from the partnership’s Norco fractionation facility west of New Orleans to refineries and petrochemical plants in southern Louisiana.
According to the company, one of the pipelines is dedicated to a Garyville, Louisiana refinery and will transport natural gasoline as part of a long-term agreement. The second pipeline will allow Enterprise Products Partners to increase its delivery of natural gas liquids (NGLs) to the refineries and petrochemical facilities concentrated in the St Charles Parish area.
The Norco fractionation facility has the capability to separate up to 75,000 barrels of NGLs per day and is owned 100% by an affiliate of Enterprise. Norco receives mixed NGLs via pipeline from refineries and natural gas processing and fractionation plants located in Texas, southern Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama, said the company.
Michael Creel, president and CEO of Enterprise, said: The increased capacity and flexibility resulting from this expansion project complements Enterprise’s existing pipeline infrastructure in the area and enhances our ability to meet the industrial demand for supplies of NGLs for feedstock and blending purpose.
Enterprise Products Partners is a North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil and petrochemicals. Enterprise claims to transport natural gas, NGLs, crude oil and petrochemicals through more than 36,000 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines. Its services include natural gas transportation, gathering, processing and storage; NGL fractionation (or separation), transportation, storage, and import and export terminaling; crude oil transportation; offshore production platform services; and petrochemical transportation and services.
