GC ethylene export terminal

Enterprise Products Partners and Navigator Holdings have executed a letter of intent to jointly develop an ethylene marine export terminal on the Houston (Texas) Ship Channel and located at EPP’s Morgan’s Point complex. The facility has a 45-foot draft and includes Enterprise’s ethane marine export terminal, the world’s largest. The terminal would be connected to a high-capacity ethylene salt dome storage and ethylene pipeline system, which is currently under construction. The pipeline system will be connected to multiple producers and consumers of ethylene on the Gulf Coast. Ethylene production capacity is expected to go up by 45 percent by 2020, based on current projects. Nearly 90 percent of these expansions are at facilities located along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast. (Source: Maritime Executive 07/13/17)