Front Range Y-Grade Pipeline

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Front Range Y-Grade Pipeline is an operating natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States.

Location

The pipeline runs through Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States.

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Project details

• Operator: Enterprise Products Partners
• Owner: Front Range Pipeline JV
• Parent company: Occidental Petroleum* [33.33%]; Enterprise Products Partners [33.33%]; Phillips66** [16.66%]; Enbridge** [16.66%]
• Capacity: 150,000 barrels per day
• Length: 435 miles
• Diameter:
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2014

*Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, listed as owning one-third interest, was acquired in 2019 by Occidental Petroleum.

**DCP Midstream Partners owns one-third of the joint venture, and DCP Midstream Partners is itself a joint venture between Phillips66 and Spectra Energy (now Enbridge).

Expansion projects

Expansion

According to June 2020 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the expansion includes the addition of pumps which will increase the total capacity from 150,000 barrels per day to 250,000 barrels per day.

The project entered service in the second quarter of 2020.

• Operator: Enterprise Products Partners
• Owner: Front Range Pipeline JV
• Parent company: Occidental Petroleum* [33.33%]; Enterprise Products Partners [33.33%]; Phillips66** [16.66%]; Enbridge** [16.66%]
• Capacity: 100,000 barrels per day
• Length: 0 new miles
• Diameter: 16 inches
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2020

*Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, listed as owning one-third interest, was acquired in 2019 by Occidental Petroleum.

**DCP Midstream Partners owns one-third of the joint venture, and DCP Midstream Partners is itself a joint venture between Phillips66 and Spectra Energy (now Enbridge).