Project Profile
Value: MB-3 fractionator - US$375-415 million, Mont Belvieu NGL storage expansion- US$150-160 million, E-P splitter - US$45 million
Location: 20 miles east of Houston, Mont Belvieu, USA
Capacity: 75,000 b/d NGL fractionator (MB-3), 40,000 b/d ethane-propane splitter
Production (ethane-propane splitter): produce 32,000 b/d of purity ethane and 8,000 b/d of propane
Start-up Year: 4Q 2014 (MB-3 fractionator), 2Q 2014 (E-P splitter)
At Mont Belvieu, about 20 miles east of Houston, Oneok Partners LP will build a 75,000 b/d NGL fractionator (MB-3), a 40,000 b/d ethane-propane splitter, and associated systems for both. The MB-3 fractionator, which will cost US$375-415 million and be Oneok’s third fractionator in Mont Belvieu, will be in service during fourth-quarter 2014. It will supplement the company’s 80%-owned, 160,000 b/d MB-1 fractionator, as well as its wholly owned, 75,000 b/d MB-2 fractionator, the latter of which still under construction and set to begin operating in mid-2013. This investment also includes US$150-160 million to expand Oneok\'s Mont Belvieu NGL storage. Oneok Partners owns an NGL system in the Midcontinent and Gulf Coast, including fractionators and storage in Mont Belvieu; Bushton, Conway, and Hutchinson, Kan.; and Medford, Okla. It also owns interstate NGL distribution pipelines between Conway and Mont Belvieu and NGL and refined petroleum products distribution pipelines that connect its Midcontinent NGL infrastructure to Midwest markets, including Chicago.
Oneok will invest about US$45 million to install a 40,000 b/d E-P splitter at its Mont Belvieu storage to split E-P mix into purity ethane for petrochemical customers. The splitter will be able to produce 32,000 b/d of purity ethane and 8,000 b/d of propane and is to be in service in second-quarter 2014.
Operators:
Oneok Partners LP: Operator with 100% working interest