Baton Rouge Natural Gas Liquids Fractionator Commences Operations.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1999-- Baton Rouge Fractionators LLC announced today that its natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation fractionation /frac·tion·a·tion/ (frak?shun-a´shun) 1. in radiology, division of the total dose of radiation into small doses administered at intervals. 2. facility has commenced commercial operations. The fractionation facility is located in Port Allen, La., across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge. It has current capacity to fractionate frac·tion·ate tr.v. frac·tion·at·ed, frac·tion·at·ing, frac·tion·ates 1. To divide or separate into parts; break up: , or process, 60,000 barrels per day Barrels per day (abbreviated BPD, bbl/d, bpd, bd or b/d) is a measurement used to describe the amount of crude oil (measured in barrels) produced or consumed by an entity in one day. of mixed natural gas liquids into discrete NGL products: ethane, propane, isobutane, normal butane and natural gasoline. Mixed natural gas liquids intended for processing at the fractionation facility will originate primarily from natural gas processing Natural gas processing plants, or fractionators, are used to purify the raw natural gas extracted from underground gas fields and brought up to the surface by gas wells. The processed natural gas, used as fuel by residential, commercial and industial consumers, is almost pure plants servicing production from deepwater developments in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and production from Pascagoula, Mississippi, Mobile Bay and South Louisiana. Based on expected increases in NGL production from the deepwater developments, the facility was designed to be easily expandable. Most of the NGL products produced by the facility will be utilized in Mississippi River refineries and petrochemical plants. Baton Rouge Fractionators LLC is a joint venture among affiliates of Exxon Chemical, BP Amoco, Williams and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EPD). Enterprise was the Construction Manager for the engineering, design and construction of the facility and will serve as the operator of the facility. This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 based on the beliefs of the company, as well as, assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. Although Enterprise believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. |
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