EPIC Y-Grade LP has completed a 165-mile pipeline from its Robstown, Tex., fractionator to the Sweeny fractionation and storage complex, which also includes Phillips 66 Co. and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC. Sweeny has storage for both Y-Grade and purity products and EPIC also placed into service a 175-mile propane pipeline delivering to the complex.
The company also has connectivity to the Corpus Christi, Tex., export market via its fractionation complex there. It recently completed an ethane pipeline delivering to Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV) LLC’s complex in neighboring Portland, Tex. The plant, which just reached mechanical completion, will include a 1.8-million tonne/year ethane steam cracker (OGJ Online, July 26, 2021). GCGV is an ExxonMobil Corp. and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) joint venture.
EPIC also said it has begun shipping NGLs under transportation agreements reached following cancellation in 2020 of the Belveiu Alternative NGL pipeline (BANGL). BANGL was a joint venture of WhiteWater Midstream LLC and MPLX LP designed to ship NGL from Delaware and Midland basins to Sweeny for fractionation.
EPIC Y-Grade LP operates a 700-mile, 24-in. OD NGL pipeline delivering Permian and Eagle Ford NGL production to the Gulf Coast. The company’s combined Robstown and Sweeny fractionation capacity is 240,000 b/d.