Morgan’s Point ethylene export terminal under construction
Published by Nicholas Woodroof,
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Hydrocarbon Engineering,
Enterprise Products and Navigator Holdings have announced their 50/50 JV ethylene export terminal at Enterprise’s Morgan’s Point facility in Texas will be able to export 2.2 billion pounds of ethylene a year.
The terminal will have the capacity to export approximately 2.2 billion pounds of ethylene per year. Refrigerated storage for 66 million pounds of ethylene is being constructed on-site and will provide the capability to load ethylene at rates of 2.2 million pounds per hour. Commercial operations are expected to begin in 4Q19, one quarter earlier than previously projected.
By providing access to international markets, the new export terminal will facilitate continued growth of domestic ethylene production, which is expected to reach 90 billion pounds per year by 2021. In addition, the terminal being constructed by Enterprise and Navigator will promote supply diversification for expanding markets like Asia, which rely on cost-advantaged US feedstocks.
The high-capacity ethylene salt dome storage facility Enterprise is developing at its complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas is scheduled to begin service in 2Q19. Upon completion, this storage facility will have a capacity of approximately 600 million pounds with an injection/withdrawal rate of 420 000 pounds per hour and will be designed to enable connections to the eight ethylene pipelines within a half-mile of the Enterprise ethylene storage system. In addition, Enterprise is building a new ethylene pipeline from Mont Belvieu to Bayport, Texas, which is on schedule to begin service in 2020. The section from Mont Belvieu to Morgan’s Point is scheduled to be in service in 2019 to support the export terminal.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/petrochemicals/30052018/morgans-point-ethylene-export-terminal-under-construction/
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