Construction Begins on 650-Mile EPIC NGL Y-Grade Pipeline
Destinations include interconnects near Orla, Benedum, and Corpus Christi, Texas, where EPIC’s affiliate plans to build a fractionation complex to accommodate the pipeline’s volume. In addition to the fractionator, EPIC will be building purity pipe- line systems, including an ethane system that in the first phase will span the upper Gulf Coast into the Markham, Texas area.
“The EPIC Y-Grade Pipeline provides an efficient solution to shippers’ NGL marketing and transportation needs,” said Justin Gordon, EPIC’s senior vice president of engineering and operations. “Our pipeline will be an NGL superhighway for customers’ volumes from the Permian Basin to Corpus Christi and will better serve the growing needs of the petrochemical and refining sectors along the U.S. Gulf Coast.”
EPIC plans to have the initial phase of the pipeline in service in early 2018. BP has signed on as the anchor shipper and a capital commitment has been secured from funds managed by ARES Management LP. The EPIC NGL Pipeline will run side by side through Texas with the EPIC Crude Oil Pipeline for most of the route.
The project is an initiative of EPIC Y-Grade Pipeline LP (San Antonio, Texas), formed this year to own and operate an NGL pipeline system between West Texas and the Gulf Coast. EPIC’s predecessors, TexStar Midstream Logistics LP and TexStar Mid- stream Services LP, owned and operated oil and gas midstream infrastructure throughout South Texas, including crude oil and gas-gathering systems, trunk lines, treating and processing plants, and an integrated NGL system with 120 miles of trunk lines and a purpose-built fractionator near Corpus Christi.
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