Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) said on Dec. 6 it plans to convert one of its NGL pipelines, that transports NGL from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast, to crude oil service.
The conversion is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020. This pipeline conversion would provide the partnership with total crude oil pipeline capacity of over 650,000 barrels per day from the Permian Basin to Enterprise’s crude oil hub in the Houston area.
Enterprise has three existing NGL pipelines that stretch from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast: the Seminole Blue, Seminole Red and Chaparral. The Shin Oak NGL pipeline, which is currently under construction, will be the partnership’s fourth NGL pipeline from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast.
The Shin Oak pipeline is expected to be in service in the second-quarter of 2019. The completion of the Shin Oak pipeline provides Enterprise the flexibility to divert NGL volumes from at least one of its existing NGL pipelines onto Shin Oak and repurpose the vacated NGL pipeline to crude oil service.
Enterprise is currently evaluating which NGL pipeline(s) to repurpose.
“We have had strong demand for crude oil transportation, storage and marine terminal services for crude oil production from the Permian Basin,” A.J. Teague, CEO of the general partner of Enterprise, said.
The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines, 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGL, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals, and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.
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