Atlas Pipeline Partners cryogenic processing plant comes online in US

Atlas Pipeline Partners new Waynoka II plant located on WestOK gathering and processing system in north-west Oklahoma and southern Kansas has begun operations.

The cryogenic processing plant is currently operating at approximately 130 million cubic feet per day.

Atlas Pipeline Partners said the expansion of the facility has increased the total nameplate processing capacity at the Waynoka location to 400 million cubic feet per day.

WestOK system’s total nameplate processing capacity has increased by 78% from 258 million cubic feet per day to 458 million cubic feet per day.

The system is currently gathering over 410 million cubic feet per day, including significant volumes from the Atlas Pipeline Partners producer customers, which have operations in the Mississippi Lime formation.

Atlas Pipeline Partners chief executive officer Eugene Dubay said with the current expansion at WestOK and at Velma, the company has increased its overall processing capacity by 260 million cubic feet per day on these two systems.

The company said the Waynoka I and Waynoka II plants will be processing below full capacity.

In compliance with WestOK system current natural gas liquids (NGL) allocation limit, certain volumes will cross with Atlas Pipeline Partners processing facilities.

Additional NGL takeaway has been contracted by Atlas Pipeline Partners, which is expected to be secured in the first half of 2013 once an additional NGL pipeline construction is complete.

"We will be very pleased with the incremental margin that the company will realize as volumes continue to increase and, for Waynoka II, when new NGL takeaway becomes available in the first half of 2013," said Dubay.

"Additionally, we are fully underway in the expansion of our other system, WestTX, and expect to have the driver plant online in the first half of 2013 as well."