Moving NGLs Out of the Eagle Ford -- RBN Energy

Link here.

One of the advantages that the Eagle Ford has over its cousin the Bakken is that there was already significant infrastructure in place.  Unfortunately the gathering and processing infrastructure was designed many years ago for 2-3 GPM gas.  Historically that’s not a bad BTU content for processors.  But compared to Eagle Ford shale it is piddly (East Texas word).  Eagle Ford production is 5 or 6 or 8 GPM.  That means that liquids drop out of the gas and accumulate in gathering systems, cold weather wreaks havoc with freeze offs, and processing plant deethanizer towers are vastly undersized. And that’s just the issues that were mentioned off the cuff.

The article talks a lot about DCP Midstream, a company I had not heard of until yesterday from a completely unrelated source. At that source it said DCP Midstream was involved in every unconventional shale play in the US except the Marcellus and the Bakken, and it planned to enter both those areas.