Targa Resources Partners LP, Houston, will expand its natural gas gathering and processing capabilities in the Permian and Williston basins, the company has announced.
Targa Resources will buy and install a 300-MMcfd cryogenic gas processing plant, a header pipeline originating at the plant into the southern portion of the Delaware basin, and related gathering and compression.
The plant will be in Winkler County, Tex., west of Targa’s existing Sand Hills gas processing plant to provide additional services to producers on the western side of the Permian basin. Along with the recent start-up of the 200-MMcfd High Plains plant at the company’s San Angelo Operating Unit (SAOU). The Winkler County plant will increase Targa’s Permian basin capacity by 500 MMcfd to a total gross capacity of nearly 1.1 bcfd.
The processing plant is to be operational at the end of first-quarter 2016.
Targa also approved the purchase of a 200-MMcfd cryogenic plant to be built in McKenzie County, ND, in the Williston basin. When combined with the current 40-MMcfd expansion to be operating at yearend, this new capacity will increase Targa’s effective processing capacity when all facilities are debottlenecked up to 300 MMcfd to handle production from the Bakken and Three Forks shale plays.
The additional Badlands plant is to be operating as early as yearend 2015.