Flow-Cal Inc. implemented the FLOWCAL Enterprise Liquids system at the Lone Star NGL transportation, storage and fractionation facility owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners LP.
Energy Transfer’s Lone Star NGL storage facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas, is an integrated liquids storage facility with more than 43 million barrels (bbl.) of salt dome capacity and 23 million bbl. of brine pond capacity that serve the Houston Ship Channel. Lone Star NGL LLC is a joint venture owned 70% by Energy Transfer Partners LP and 30% by Regency Energy Partners LP and was formed to acquire the natural gas liquids (NGLs) storage, fractionation and transportation business of Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy LLC.
Energy Transfer will use the FLOWCAL system to track cavern and tank inventory, pipeline meter measurement in and out of the facility and truck and railcar product deliveries. Energy Transfer will be able to balance the system on a volume, mass and component volume basis.
The next facility scheduled for implementation is the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, operation which is connected to the Dixie pipeline and provides seasonal propane, butane storage and terminal services to refiners and propane distributors.
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