Enterprise ramps up ethylene exports;commissions storage, pipeline system

摘要

Enterprise Products Partners said its ethylene export terminal at Morgan's Point, TX, a JV with Navigator Holdings, recently exceeded design interim loading capacity and expected to export more than 175 million pounds for the month of June. The terminal is in the process of loading a record-sized ethylene cargo of 44 million pounds on the Navigator Eclipse. The partnership expects to complete the construction of an aboveground ethylene storage tank, which will bring the total loading capacity of the marine terminal to 2.2 billion pounds per year, by the end of 2020. The marine terminal volumes are supported by Enterprise's high-capacity ethylene storage hub and pipeline system, which is connected to four ethylene pipeline systems. Enterprise expects to complete three additional connections by the end of 2020, linking its system to a majority of ethylene production capacity in Texas. Enterprise's open access ethylene storage hub and pipeline system provides domestic ethylene producers access to both domestic and global markets.