MOSCOW (MRC) -- Enterprise Products Partners (Houston, Texas) co-loaded olefins and natural gas liquids (NGLs) twice in July, the first time such cargoes have been loaded for export from the US, said Chemweek.
A VLGC (very large gas carrier) received propane and polymer-grade propylene (PGP) simultaneously into separate compartments at the Enterprise Houston Ship Channel terminal. Another vessel took on ethane and ethylene simultaneously at the company’s Morgan’s Point facility in Houston.
"This landmark accomplishment was made possible by our integrated midstream network, as well as the creativity and determination of our employees,” says AJ Teague, co-CEO of Enterprise’s general partner. “Loading ethylene and propylene on larger vessels from the US Gulf Coast substantially lowers freight costs and allows US Gulf Coast producers to supply distant markets, such as Asia, more competitively."
The Morgan’s Point terminal, a joint venture between Enterprise and Navigator Holdings (London), shipped its first cargo of ethylene in January. Earlier this month, Navigator said the terminal had gotten take-or-pay offtake commitments for about 95% of its 2.2-billion pounds/year (1-million metric tons/year) nameplate capacity.
As MRC informed earlier, Enterprise Products is expected to restart its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Mont Belvieu, Texas, from maintenance this week. This PDH unit has the capacity of 750,000 mt/y of propylene.
Propylene is the main feedstock for the production of polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market was 457,930 tonnes in January-May 2020 (calculated by the formula production minus export plus import). Deliveris of exclusively PP random copolymer increased.
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