Enterprise, Duncan Energy Expand Eagle Ford Facilities

Enterprise Products and Duncan Energy will expand their jointly owned processing facilities in south Texas, US, to manage increasing natural gas production from the Eagle Ford Shale play.

The Shoup and Armstrong facilities provide natural gas processing and natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation services.

The upgrades are part of the expansion plans for the partnership’s midstream infrastructure to better manage the increasing natural gas production.

Enterprise president and CEO Michael A Creel said that the expansions will also position the firms to capture additional value from the various physical qualities of the natural gas, particularly the high NGL content characteristic of Eagle Ford Shale production.

Shoup facility’s fractionation equipment will be modified to increase its capacity to 77,000bpd by the second quarter of 2010.

Modifications at the Armstrong plant will increase its fractionation capacity to over 20,000bpd and enable it to handle more NGLs by the fourth quarter of 2010.