Targa Resources Partners LP announced expansion plans for its gas gathering and processing capabilities in the Permian and Williston basins.
The company approved the purchase and installation of a new 300 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) cryogenic processing plant, a header pipeline running from the new plant into the southern portion of the Delaware Basin and related gathering and compression infrastructure. The new plant will be constructed in Winkler County, Texas, west of Tar Resources Partners’ Sand Hills processing plant. This new plant, in addition with the recent startup of the 200 MMcf/d High Plains plant, will increase the company’s Permian Basin capacity by about 500 MMcf/d to a total gross capacity of 1.1 billion cubic feet per day. The new plant is expected to enter service by the end of first-quarter 2016.
The company also approved the purchase of a 200 MMcf/d cryogenic processing plant to be located in the Williston Basin in McKenzie County, N.D. This will increase Targa Resources Partners’ processing capacity when all facilities are debottlenecked to about 300 MMcf/d over time in the Bakken and Three Forks shale plays. The plant is expected to enter service as early as the end of 2015.
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