10-Jul-19
Enterprise Products Partners plans to expand its ability to export crude, liquefied petroleum gas, and polymer grade propylene from the Enterprise Hydrocarbon Terminal on the Houston Ship Channel, as per SP Global Platts. The planned expansion will help debottleneck the gap created by increased Permian crude flows into the US Gulf Coast as pipeline takeaway capacity comes online ahead of export facility growth. The expansion will also address growing demand for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exports and record demand for polymer-grade propylene (PGP) in international markets.
"We are pleased to announce this additional investment in our Houston Ship Channel marine terminals," AJ "Jim" Teague, CEO of Enterprise's general partner, said in a statement. "In total these expansions will enable us to load an incremental 1.3 million bpd of LPG, polymer-grade propylene and crude oil," he added. Enterprise estimates that by 2025 exports of US crude oil will increase to 8 million bpd. In April, the US Gulf Coast exported 2.6 million bpd of crude, according to Energy Information Administration data. As part of the expansion, Enterprise is also building an eighth dock at its Houston Ship Channel facility to accommodate a Suezmax tanker, the largest ship able to navigate the Ship Channel. This will add 840,000 bpd of crude export loading capacity to the facility, bringing the facility's total crude export capacity to 2.75 million bpd. The new dock is expected to be in service by the fourth quarter of 2020.
EIA数据显示，企业预计国内液化石油气出口市场将从140万瓦尔多巴州bpd增加到2025年的2.8 bpd。目前，该设施的液化石油气加载能力为660,000 bpd。Enterprise先前宣布的扩展项目有望在2019年第三季度之前增加175,000 BPD。周一宣布了其他项目，该公司将在2020年第三季度增加260,000 bpd的容量，使该设施的铭牌能力接近1.1。到那时，百万BPD的液化石油气。为了满足国际对PGP的不断增长的需求，企业正在码头增加冷藏设施，该设施将增加67,200 BPD的完全冷藏PGP的加载能力。扩展项目还将允许企业将完全冷藏的PGP和LPG共同加载到同一容器上。该项目预计将在2020年第四季度运作。
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