EPP To Develop Two Texas Refined Products Export Terminals; Will Handle Panamax- And Aframax-Size Vessels

Oil & Gas Journal is reporting:

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) is developing two refined products export terminals to meet growing demand for additional products export capability on the US Gulf Coast.

Terminal development will use EPP’s existing Southern Complex of refined products pipeline, storage, and terminal facilities in southeast Texas, to improve access to its marine facilities in Beaumont, Tex., and on the Houston Ship Channel (HSC). Export service at the reactivated Beaumont marine terminal will initially handle Panamax-size vessels and is expected to begin first-quarter 2014, followed in mid-2014 by expansions at marine terminal on the HSC initially sized to handle up to Aframax-class vessels.