Energy Transfer Partners will spend $210m to further expand its Rich Eagle Ford Mainline (REM) pipeline, serving the Eagle Ford shale region, and will build another new cryogenic processing facility in Texas, US.
The company is expanding its Eagle Ford infrastructure to facilitate the multiple long-term agreements it recently signed with producers for providing gas gathering, processing and liquids services from the Eagle Ford shale.
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The first expansion of the REM pipeline will add 60 miles of 42in pipe and will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.
The second expansion, 37 miles of 30in pipe, will be completed by the fourth quarter of next year.
On completion of the expansion project, the entire pipeline system will include about 257 miles of pipe and will have a capacity of over one billion cubic feet per day.
The company placed in service the initial phase of 160 miles of the REM pipeline in October 2011.
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By GlobalDataThe new processing plant in Karnes County will have a capacity to process about 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year.
The facility, and the company’s two other processing plants in Chisholm and Jackson County, will have a capacity of about 1.125 billion cubic feet per day.
Energy Transfer senior vice president Brian Beebe said: "This latest REM pipeline expansion and new processing plant exemplify the continued robust demand by our customers for additional infrastructure in the Eagle Ford Shale."
