BANGL Pipeline

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BANGL Pipeline is an operating NGL pipeline in the United States. The project promoters that initially announced the project cancelled it in May 2020, but it was picked up again in August 2020 and ultimately became operational in 2021.

Location

The pipeline was planned to run from the Permian Basin to the Sweeny, Texas area.

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Project details

Mainline

• Operator:
• Owner: BANGL LLC
• Parent company: White Water; MPLX LP; West Texas Gas; Rattler Midstream LP
• Capacity: 125,000 barrels per day
• Length: 525 miles
• Diameter: 24 in
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2021

Capacity Expansion

• Operator:
• Owner: BANGL LLC
• Parent company: White Water; MPLX LP; West Texas Gas; Rattler Midstream LP
• Capacity: 75,000 bpd
• Length:
• Diameter:
• Status: Construction
• Start year: 2025

Background

The BANGL pipeline was planned to move Y-grade NGL from the Permian Basin to the NGL fractionation hub in Sweeny, Texas, with a planned initial capacity of approximately 500,000 barrels per day. It was expected to be operational in late 2021.

Initial cancellation

Marathon announced in May 2020 that it was cancelling the project due to the collapse in oil prices and said that instead it would be focusing on expanding capacity on its existing pipelines. A fractionation capacity and export facility associated with the BANGL project was also cancelled. Reuters reported Marathon's CEO Michael Hennigan explaining the reason for the cancellation: "We are still committed to an NGL solution. It just won’t be the original scope that we had envisioned early on. We wanted to not commit to that full scope until we were really sure that the volume commitments would be there (and) with what’s happening in the market, the volume commitments are slower."

Revamped project

In August 2020, a joint venture was announced among MPLX LP, WhiteWater Midstream, and West Texas Gas to accomplish the goals of the original BANGL Pipeline, but using existing infrastructure with limited initial construction, and allowing for potential future expansions. This joint venture, later identified as BANGL LLC, included multiple capacity arrangements from Orla to Sweeny, Texas, USA that included the EPIC NGL Pipeline. Commercial operations began in the fourth quarter of 2021, and in January 2022, Rattler Midstream LP was announced as a fourth parter of the BANGL LLC joint venture.

According to the Whitewater website, "BANGL is a joint venture between White Water, MPLX, WTG, and Rattler. The natural gas liquids pipeline system connects the Delaware and Midland basins of Texas to the fractionation market in Sweeny, Texas and has expansion capacity of up to 300,000 barrels per day."