Enterprise's first ethane export departs US Gulf Coast
Enterprise Products Partners LP announced that the first cargo of ethane to be exported from Enterprise's Morgan's Point, Texas terminal has been loaded.
The M/V JS INEOS Intrepid, loaded with approximately 265 Mbbl of ethane, set sail from the facility on the morning of September 1, en route to the INEOS facility at Rafnes in Norway.
The Morgan's Point ethane export facility, which is located on the Houston Ship Channel and is the largest of its kind in the world, has a design loading capacity of 10 Mbbl/hr.
The driving force behind development of the terminal is the growing international demand for abundant US ethane from shale plays, which offers the global petrochemical industry a low-cost feedstock option and supply diversification.
Enterprise's Mont Belvieu, Texas NGL complex
By providing producers with access to the export market, the Morgan's Point terminal is also facilitating continued development of US energy reserves.
Supply for the new ethane export terminal is sourced from Enterprise's NGL fractionation and storage complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas and transported through a new 18-mi, 24-in.-diameter pipeline that was completed in February.
In addition, the Mont Belvieu complex is connected to ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions through the ATEX pipeline.
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