Project Profile
Value: US$300 million
Location: From the Marcellus Shale areas in Western Pennsylvania to Sunoco, Inc.\'s facility in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
Capacity: 345,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids
Start-up Year: end of 2016
Mariner East is a pipeline project to deliver propane and ethane from the liquid-rich Marcellus Shale areas in Western Pennsylvania to Sunoco, Inc.\'s facility in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, where it will be processed, stored, and distributed to various domestic and waterborne markets. Binding commitments for all of the pipeline capacity offered have been received from shippers enabling the project to move forward. Mariner East, along with the previously announced Mariner West project which will deliver ethane to the Sarnia, Ontario market by mid-2013, will provide Marcellus Shale basin producers with a comprehensive natural gas liquids takeaway solution. Sunoco Logistics is projecting to invest over US$600 million for the Mariner projects.The project is anticipated to have an initial capacity to transport approximately 70,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids and can be expanded to support higher volumes. Mariner East is expected to be transporting propane by the second half of 2014 and to be fully operational to deliver both propane and ethane in the first half of 2015. This new capacity will enhance the current propane export capabilities at Marcus Hook. Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. announced a successful open season for Project Mariner East. Based upon the significant interest it has received from producers, marketers, and industrial consumers for long-term transportation of Marcellus and Utica Shale natural gas liquids to the Marcus Hook facility, Sunoco Logistics is evaluating offering a second Mariner East open season. The anticipated initial capacity of the pipeline is 275,000 barrels per day of NGLs, and when added to the Mariner East\'s current capacity, the finished pipeline will have a total capacity of 345,000 barrels per day of NGLs. Sunoco plans to have Mariner East 2 finished by the end of 2016, so long as the regulatory approval process goes according to plan.
Operators:
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Range Resources: Anchor shipper on the Mariner East Project
Fluor Corp.: Contract to manage the construction of new terminal facilities to store, chill, process, and distribute the NGLs at the complex. (February 2016)