Mountaineer NGL Pipeline

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Mountaineer NGL Pipeline is a proposed natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline in Ohio, United States.

Location

The pipeline will link ESV's storage facility, which is to be sited along the Ohio River in Monroe County, with PTTGC's cracker in Belmont County, to be located just eight miles north.

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Project details

• Operator:
• Owner: Mountaineer NGL Storage LLC
• Parent company: Mountaineer NGL Storage LLC
• Capacity:
• Length: 8 miles
• Diameter:
• Status: Shelved
• Start year:

Background

Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical pcl (PTTGC) and Energy Storage Ventures LLC (ESV) proposed the Mountaineer NGL Storage Project, which includes a one million bbl of ethane storage for PTTGC's proposed cracker. The Goldman Sachs-backed ESV started working on the project in 2016, but the company has had to search for customers and deal with regulatory delays.

The pipeline will link ESV's storage facility, which is to be sited along the Ohio River in Monroe County, with PTTGC's cracker in Belmont County, to be located just eight miles north.

As of February 2021, the project was still proposed, and construction was intended to begin by the end of 2021. As of April 2022, there is no evidence that construction has begun.

In March 2023, Sierra Club announced a lawsuit brought by community groups on the developer was dismissed after permits to build the pipelines and related storage facilities expired. The project is therefore considered shelved.