Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, will build a cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Eddy County, NM, along with associated gas and NGL pipelines to handle growing production of NGL-rich natural gas in the Delaware basin.
The plant and pipelines will come online in first-quarter 2016, EPP said. The South Eddy gas plant will have an initial capacity of 200 MMcfd, with the potential for expansions. Completing the plant will bring EPP’s total gas processing capacity in the Delaware basin to 400 MMcfd, it said.
The company will build 80 miles of gas gathering pipelines to complement its existing 1,500 miles of gas pipelines in the basin and serve the new plant. EPP also will build a 75-mile, 12-in. OD NGL pipeline to transport liquids from the South Eddy plant to the company’s Hobbs, NM, NGL fractionation and storage in Gaines County, Tex.
In addition, EPP plans to build pipelines to deliver residue gas from the new plant to “multiple third-party” pipelines.
A.J. Teague, chief operating officer of EPP’s general partner, said, “Volumes into our existing facilities in the region have doubled since 2012 and existing infrastructure is operating at capacity.”