Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) today announced a further
expansion of its liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) export terminal at
Oiltanking’s complex on the Houston Ship Channel. Enterprise’s expanded
LPG terminal is supported by a 50-year service agreement with Oiltanking
Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OILT) to provide additional dock space and related
services. The expanded LPG export terminal is expected to be in service
by the end of 2015 and is supported by long-term LPG export agreements.
Upon completion of the expanded facilities, Enterprise will have
aggregate capacity to load in excess of 16 million barrels per month of
low-ethane propane and/or butane. This expansion is in lieu of a second
LPG terminal announced in October 2013 and will result in more capacity
than previously anticipated.
“We are pleased to announce the expansion of our LPG export marine
terminal and the associated 50-year agreement with Oiltanking,” said
Michael A. Creel, chief executive officer of Enterprise’s general
partner. “The decision to expand at Oiltanking was directly attributable
to our joint experience of loading LPG vessels on the Houston Ship
Channel and our 33-year relationship with Oiltanking. Demand for both
current and future LPG exports continues to be strong. The location of
the expanded terminal at Oiltanking enables us to increase maximum
loading capacity to approximately 27,000 barrels per hour, the highest
in the industry, while nominally reducing the overall capital costs
associated with the project.”
“On the ethane front, we continue to negotiate with several customers
that would support the development of an ethane export terminal. Our
site evaluation for this facility continues. Depending on the outcome of
these discussions, estimated ethane export demand and ship draft
requirements, we expect the ethane export facility will be sited either
adjacent to our refined products export terminal in Beaumont or on the
Houston Ship Channel.”
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded
partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy
services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil,
refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas
gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL
transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals
(including LPG); crude oil and refined products transportation, storage
and terminals; offshore production platforms; petrochemical
transportation and services; and a marine transportation business that
operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway
systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. The partnership’s assets include
approximately 51,000 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines; 200
million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined
products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas
storage capacity. Additional information regarding Enterprise can be
found on its website, www.enterpriseproducts.com.
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” as defined
by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than
statements of historical fact, included herein that address activities,
events, developments or transactions that Enterprise expects, believes
or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including anticipated
benefits and other aspects of such activities, events, developments or
transactions, are forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that
may cause actual results to differ materially, including required
approvals by regulatory agencies, the possibility that the anticipated
benefits from such activities, events, developments or transactions
cannot be fully realized, the possibility that costs or difficulties
related thereto will be greater than expected, the impact of competition
and other risk factors included in the reports filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission by Enterprise. Readers are cautioned not
to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of their dates. Except as required by law, Enterprise
does not intend to update or revise its forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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