NGL Energy expands DJ basin crude pipeline to 200,000 b/d

NGL Energy Partners LP will increase the capacity of its Grand Mesa crude pipeline to at least 200,000 b/d by using 20-in. OD pipe. Volumes committed to Rimrock Midstream LLC’s 150-mile Denver-Julesburg basin gathering system, currently under development and planned to tie into Grand Mesa at Lucerne, Colo., prompted the expansion decision.

Grand Mesa will include more than 550 miles of pipeline, multiple truck injection bays, more than 1 million bbl of storage, and at least two origination points near Lucerne and Kersey (Riverside Station) in Weld County, Colo. NGL expects the system to enter service fourth-quarter 2016. Rimrock will build and operate the pipeline system.