The new ethylene export terminal owned by Enterprise Products Partners and Navigator Holdings has surpassed design interim loading capacity, market sources informed SSESSMENTS.COM. The sources said that Enterprise expected to complete the construction of three additional connections to ethylene pipeline systems and an above-ground ethylene storage tank before the end of 2020.
After the new pipeline connections are completed, the terminal will have a total of seven connections. Meanwhile, the new storage will add the terminal’s loading capacity to 2.2 billion pounds/year. The facility is currently loading a record-sized ethylene cargo of 44 million pounds. For this month, Enterprise aims at exporting 175 million pounds of ethylene.
