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Enterprise, Navigator start construction on Texas ethylene export terminal

Enterprise Products Partners LP began construction on a Houston Ship Channel ethylene export terminal that is a 50/50 joint venture with marine transportation company Navigator Holdings Ltd.

The export terminal is being built at Enterprise's facility in Morgan's Point, Texas. It is designed to have an export capacity of about 2.2 billion pounds of ethylene per year. The terminal includes refrigerated storage for 66 million pounds of ethylene, which will allow the terminal to load ethylene at rates of 2.2 million pounds per hour, according to a May 29 news release. The project is scheduled to start commercial operations in the fourth quarter of 2019, a quarter earlier than planned.

The export terminal would give domestic ethylene production access to international markets and help markets such as Asia diversify their feedstock supply, Enterprise said in the release.

Ethylene for the export terminal would be delivered via a pipeline being built from Mont Belvieu to Bayport, Texas. A section from Mont Belvieu, Texas, to Morgan's Point is expected to begin service in 2019.

Enterprise is developing an ethylene salt dome storage facility at its Mont Belvieu complex, which is expected to start up in the second quarter of 2019. The storage facility will have a capacity of about 600 million pounds and will have connections with as many as eight ethylene pipelines.