Stingray Gas Pipeline
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Stingray Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.
Location
The pipeline runs from the Gulf of Mexico to onshore transmission systems located in southwest Louisiana.
Project Details
- Operator: Stingray Pipeline Company, LLC
- Parent Company: Energy Transfer Partners
- Current capacity: 1200 Million cubic feet per day[1]
- Proposed capacity:
- Length: 325 miles / 523 km[1]
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 1974[2]
- Cost: US$154.7 million[2]
Background
The Stingray Gas Pipeline is an offshore platform and gathering pipeline operated by the Stingray Pipeline Company, LLC, which is owned by Energy Transfer Partners.[3] In early 1970s, Trunkline Gas company within the Panhandle Eastern system, and Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America (NGPL), a subsidiary of Peoples Gas, formed a joint venture to redress gas shortages. The joint venture studied ways of adding gas from the Gulf into their pipeline systems. In April 1972, Trunkline and NGPL signed an agreement for the ownership, construction and operation of the Stingray offshore pipeline system.[2] At the time of its construction, in 1974, gas was kept flowing through the pipeline by an offshore compressor station complex known as "Stingray City," which was located 100 miles from shore, in 200 feet of water.[4] This far offshore complex was a precursor to the liquid natural gas facilities (FLNG's) now being planned for the Gulf of Mexico, such as Delfin FLNG.
In 2001, Enterprise & Shell Acquired the pipeline.[1][5] It was later owned by a joint venture between Enbridge and Markwest.[6][7] Energy Transfer Partners currently owns the pipeline.[2] The details regarding the transfer of ownerships are not very clear. An August 2021 article mentioned that Energy Transfer was conducting post-hurricane assessments at its Stingray Pipeline assets.[8]
On September 25, 2020, Stingray Pipeline Co filed an application before FERC requesting authorization to abandon certain facilities (WC 509 System) located in federal waters offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico to Triton Gathering LLC by sale. This included 59.59 miles long 22-Inch East Lateral, 75.76 miles long 30-Inch West Lateral, and 37.63 miles 16-Inch South Lateral.[1]
Conversion to crude oil
The Blue Marlin Offshore Port (BMOP) Oil Pipeline is a 42-inch, 37 mile proposed pipeline that will connect the existing Nederland Oil Terminal in Texas, USA, to the existing 36-inch-diameter Stingray Gas Pipeline at Station 501 in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The project includes converting the existing Stingray Gas Pipeline and affiliate stations from natural gas to crude oil and converting a platform complex in West Cameron 509 from natural gas to include both natural gas and crude oil.[9]
As of early 2024, the start year for the pipeline according to the EIA was 2027, implying a significant delay from the original 2023 startup for the terminal itself.[10]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Stingray Gas Pipeline - A Barrel Full". abarrelfull.wikidot.com. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Stingray pipeline system pushed envelope of deepwater development in the 1970s". Offshore Magazine. 02 October, 2017. Retrieved 30 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Stingray Pipeline" (PDF). Pipeline Safety Info. Retrieved 30 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Stingray pipeline system pushed envelope of deepwater development in the 1970s, Offshore, Oct. 1, 2017
- ↑ "El Paso Energy completes merger with Coastal Corp". Oil & Gas Journal. 30 January, 2001. Retrieved 30 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Enbridge and MarkWest Extend Gulf of Mexico Pipeline System into Developing Production Area, Marketwired, Jun. 20, 2016
- ↑ "More Enbridge expansion in GoM announced - The Australian Pipeliner". www.pipeliner.com.au. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
- ↑ "After Ida, U.S. energy pipelines off line, damage being assessed". Yahoo news. 30 August, 2021. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ U.S. liquids pipeline projects, Energy Information Administration, Jun. 7, 2021, accessed Aug. 25, 2021.
- ↑ "Petroleum & Other Liquids Data - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
