EPP ethylene export terminal exceeds expected loading capacity
June 18, 2020
Enterprise Products Partners (EPP) LP’s marine export terminal at Morgan’s Point, Tex., has exceeded design interim loading capacity and the company plans to export 175 million lb in the month of June. The company expects the terminal, a 50-50 joint venture with Navigator Holdings Ltd., to reach its full 2.2 million lb/hr loading rate in fourth-quarter 2020.
EPP also expects by end-2020 to complete construction of a 66-million lb aboveground ethylene storage tank which will allow the Houston Ship Channel terminal’s annual capacity to reach its designed 2.2 billion lb. Enterprise’s high-capacity open access 600-million/lb underground ethylene storage hub in Mont Belvieu, Tex., connects to the export terminal via a 16-mile pipeline.
Four other ethylene pipeline systems connect to EPP’s. Enterprise expects to complete three additional connections by end-2020, linking its system to most ethylene production capacity in Texas.
The terminal exported its first cargo in January 2020 (OGJ Online, Jan. 8, 2020). It is now loading what EPP describes as a record-sized ethylene cargo of 44 million lb on the Navigator Eclipse.
