Texas Gulflink Oil Pipelines

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Texas Gulflink Oil Pipelines are proposed onshore and offshore oil pipeline in Texas, United States.

Location

The pipeline is proposed to run from the Department of Energy's Bryan Mound facility to Jones Creek Terminal, Brazoria, Texas to the Texas Gulflink Deepwater Port, offshore Texas in the Gulf of Mexico, United States.

Project details

Onshore Pipeline (Bryan Mound to Jones Creek Terminal)

This onshore pipeline would connect a leased ExxonMobil pipeline at the Department of Energy's Bryan Mound facility to the Jones Creek Terminal.

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• Operator:
• Owner: Texas Gulflink LLC
• Parent company: Sentinel Midstream
• Capacity: 2 million barrels per day
• Length: 9.7 miles
• Diameter: 36 inches
• Status: Proposed
• Start year: 2026
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Texas Gulflink Deepwater Port

Onshore Pipeline (Jones Creek Terminal to Shore Crossing)

This onshore pipeline would connect to the one above at Jones Creek Terminal and carry crude oil to the shoreline crossing, where it would connect to the offshore pipeline.

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• Operator:
• Owner: Texas Gulflink LLC
• Parent company: Sentinel Midstream
• Capacity: 2 million barrels per day
• Length: 12.7 miles
• Diameter: 42 inches
• Status: Proposed
• Start year: 2026
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Texas Gulflink Deepwater Port

Offshore Pipeline (Shore Crossing to Texas GulfLink Deepwater Port)

The pipeline will connect the onshore Gulflink Jones Creek Terminal to the offshore GulfLink deepwater port. Two small 42-inch-diameter departing pipelines would connect this to the platform.

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• Operator:
• Owner: Texas Gulflink LLC
• Parent company: Sentinel Midstream
• Capacity: 2 million barrels per day
• Length: 28.1 miles
• Diameter: 42 inches
• Status: Proposed
• Start year: 2026
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Texas Gulflink Deepwater Port

Background

Texas GulfLink, LLC will transport oil to one of two floating Single Point Mooring (SPM) buoys in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 37 miles offshore, via a 42-inch pipeline from a storage facility near Jones Creek in Brazoria County, Texas.

In November 2020, the project's draft environmental impact statement was released.

As of May 2022, there appeared to be no further developments of the project. In early 2024 the project continued to show up on the EIA list of petroleum and other liquids pipeline projects, with a start year of 2026.