Project Profile
Location: Harrison County, Ohio, USA
Capacity: 100,000 barrels per day
Start-up Year: 1Q 2014
MarkWest Utica EMG\'s partnership with Gulfport includes the development of midstream infrastructure in Harrison, Guernsey, and Belmont counties. The plan work includes:
- MarkWest builts Cadiz interim refrigeration plant with a capacity of 60 mmcf/d.
- MarkWest Utica is constructing Cadiz I, a 125 mmcf/d cryogenic processing plant.
- Additional Cadiz II, a 200 mmcf/d cryogenic plant, is planned to be operational by mid-2014 to support Gulfport\'s rapidly growing liquids-rich production from the Utica Shale.
- MarkWest Utica will construct an NGL gathering system to its Cadiz processing complex to a new fractionation and marketing complex that providing 100,000 barrels per day of C2+ fractionation capacity, it will be completed in Q1 2014.
The Cadiz processing complex will include a de-ethanization facility where purity ethane will be produced and delivered into the ATEX ethane pipeline. The propane and heavier natural gas liquids will then flow via pipeline to the Harrison County fractionator for further separation into valuable purity products.
Harrison County fractionator
MarkWest Utica EMG, L.L.C. (MarkWest Utica), a joint venture between MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (MarkWest) and The Energy and Minerals Group (EMG) completed definitive agreements with Antero Resources (Antero) to provide processing, fractionation, and marketing services in the liquids-rich corridor of the Utica Shale. Under the terms of the agreements, MarkWest Utica will construct and own the Harrison County fractionator facilities. First in the Cadiz processing complex, purity ethane will be produced and delivered into the ATEX ethane pipeline. The propane and heavier natural gas liquids will then flow via pipeline to the Harrison County fractionator for further separation into valuable purity products. This facility will represent the largest fractionation and marketing complex in the Utica Shale, providing 100,000 barrels per day (Bbl/d) of C2+ fractionation capacity with an expected completion date of first quarter 2014. The Harrison County fractionation complex will be connected through an expansion of MarkWest’s Marcellus NGL gathering system to its Houston facility, the largest fractionation and marketing complex in the Marcellus Shale. The Harrison County fractionator will be owned jointly by MarkWest Liberty Midstream, L.L.C. and MarkWest Utica, and the capital required to build the complex will be shared accordingly.
Operators:
Joint venture of MarkWest Utica EMG, L.L.C. (MarkWest Utica) and MarkWest Liberty Midstream, L.L.C: Operator with 100% interest