The North American infrastructure-project market is brisk as we reach the midpoint of the year. This month’s construction report lands us in one of the year’s project hot spots, Texas.
In Brazoria County, Texas, a 70,000 barrel (bbl.) per-day expansion of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ (KMP) Sweeny Lateral Pipeline will soon take place as part of a long-term contract with Phillips 66.
The 27-mile, 12-inch diameter pipeline will be expanded from an initial capacity of 30,000 bbl. per day to 100,000 bbl. per day, the company said. To support the expansion, additional pumps and a new 120,000-bbl. storage tank will be installed at KMP’s Wharton pump station in Wharton County, Texas.
KMP also plans to boost truck offload capabilities at its station in DeWitt County, Texas. The expansion is being built from the Kinder Morgan Crude Condensate (KMCC) pipeline in the Eagle Ford, which transports crude/condensate to the Houston Ship Channel. The lateral expansion will connect to Phillip 66’s Sweeny Refinery also located in Brazoria County. The project is expected to be completed at the end of 2013.
On the Texas Gulf Coast, Enterprise Products Partners has announced plans to expand its crude oil storage and distribution infrastructure that serves the Southeast Texas refinery market. According to a company statement, when complete, Enterprise will have a pipeline system directly connected to the market with a capacity of 3.6 million bbl. per day. The company’s ECHO (Enterprise Crude Oil Houston) storage facility will also get a bit of a facelift, receiving a capacity expansion of more than 6 million bbl.
In deep East Texas, Enbridge Energy Partners LP announced plans to construct a 150-million-cubic-feet (MMcf) per-day cryogenic natural gas processing plant. The addition of the plant, located in Beckville, Texas, will expand the partnership’s processing capacity to approximately 820 MMcf per day in the Cotton Valley and Haynesville shale regions, the company said. The cost of the East Texas Beckville Plant Project is estimated at $140 million. Construction should begin later this year and is expected to be in service by early 2015.
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