Falcon Ethane Pipeline

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Falcon Ethane Pipeline is an operating natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, United States.[1]

Location

The pipeline runs from Ohio's MarkWest Cadiz and Utica East Ohio Scio facilities, and in Pennsylvania's at MarkWest Houston facility. It ends at the Monaca Shell Plant in Pennyslvania.[1][2]

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Project details

  • Operator: Shell Pipeline Company LP[3]
  • Owner: Shell Pipeline Company LP[3]
  • Parent company: Shell plc
  • Capacity: 107,000 barrels per day[1]
  • Length: 97 miles[1]
  • Diameter: 10 inches, 12 inches, 16 inches[1]
  • Status: Operating[1]
  • Start year: 2021[3]

Background

According to June 2020 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the pipeline is a 97-mile system originating in Ohio's MarkWest Cadiz and Utica East Ohio Scio facilities, and in Pennsylvania's at MarkWest Houston facility. It ends at the Monaca Shell Plant in Pennyslvania.[1]

Shell's website notes, "As the sole supplier of ethane to the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Pa., the 97-mile pipeline system connects three major ethane source points in Pennsylvania and Ohio with new and reliable infrastructure."[3]

The pipeline was completed in 2020 and commissioned in October, 2021.[3]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Petroleum & Other Liquids, Movements, Energy Information Administration, June 4, 2020
  2. National Energy and Petrochemical Map , FracTracker, February 28, 2020
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Falcon Ethane Pipeline System". www.shell.us. Retrieved 2022-02-09.

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