Louis Dreyfus Pipeline Building Two Pipelines in Texas.HOUSTON -- Louis Dreyfus Pipeline L.P. ("Louis Dreyfus") announced today that it has started construction of a 33-mile extension of its natural gas liquids pipeline into the Barnett Shale The Barnett Shale is a geological formation of economic significance. It consists of sedimentary rocks of Mississippian age in the U.S. State of Texas. The formation is estimated to stretch from the city of Dallas to west of the city of Fort Worth and south, covering 5,000 square producing region in Texas and has initiated the permitting process to build a second NGL NGL - A dialect of IGL. pipeline from its current Hull, Texas, destination to the Mont Belvieu natural gas liquids hub. Joe Rothbauer, vice president of midstream operations for Louis Dreyfus, said that these pipelines will provide incremental NGL take-away take·a·way n. 1. A concession, as in a lower level of health benefits, made by a labor union to a company in negotiating a new contract. 2. capacity that is important for continued Barnett Shale development. Barnett Shale Lateral Pipeline When completed in the fourth quarter of 2006, the eight-inch Barnett Shale lateral pipeline will connect to multiple gas processing facilities in and around Johnson County Johnson County is the name of several counties in the United States:
Walnut Springs is located at (32.058353, -97.749190)GR1. . The pipeline will have a daily NGL capacity in excess of 45,000 barrels. Hull to Mont Belvieu Extension Construction of the Hull to Mont Belvieu extension is scheduled to begin in November. When completed, the 31-mile pipeline will provide direct access to the Mont Belvieu NGL hub. The 12-inch pipeline is anticipated to be operational by the first quarter 2007 and will have a capacity of more than 120,000 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. . About Louis Dreyfus Pipeline Louis Dreyfus's affiliate, Louis Dreyfus Energy Services L.P., operates one of the largest natural gas liquids, natural gas, coal, petroleum and petrochemical merchandising companies in North America and is involved in the processing, trading and transporting of a range of energy products. Its asset base includes ownership of a 1,400-mile NGL pipeline from the Permian basin to a Hull storage facility; a 4.5-million barrel propane/butane storage and terminal facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; a 50-percent interest in Mont Belvieu Storage Partners, L.P. (MB Storage Partners); an approximate 20-percent interest in the Sea Robin Gas Processing Plant (Sea Robin); and a gas gathering and processing system in Eastland, Erath, Bosque and Hill Counties in north Texas. Louis Dreyfus Energy Services also owns two cryogenic liquids extraction plants, an olefins 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. plant and an 85-mile pipeline located in southeast Louisiana. Louis Dreyfus Energy Services is a part of the Louis Dreyfus Group Louis Dreyfus Group is a diversified French private company that is involved in agriculture and energy commodities (global processing, trading and merchandising). It owns and manages ocean vessels, develops and operates telecommunications infrastructures and is involved in real , an organization of companies owned by Paris-based Louis Dreyfus S.A.S. Principal activities of the Group, which was founded in 1851, consist of worldwide processing, trading and merchandising of a broad range of agricultural and energy commodities, telecommunications, real estate development and shipping. For more information, please visit www.louisdreyfus.com. |
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