Eagle Ford Leading To More Fractionation Units in South Texas, Gulf Coast

Oil & Gas Journal is reporting:

TexStar Midstream Services LP, San Antonio, will install two fractionation units in Corpus Christi, Tex., adjacent to LyondellBasell’s Equistar Chemicals LP olefins plant.

Combined, the new fractionators will be able to process 63,000 b/d of NGLs from the Eagle Ford shale.

The announcement follows news earlier this month from Phillips 66 that it will develop a 100,000-b/d NGL fractionator at Old Ocean, Tex., near the company’s Sweeny refinery, some 40 miles southwest of Houston. Construction will begin early next year with start-up by second-half 2015, said the company.