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Press Events Today at 2 Gas Processing Plants
NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – Gov. John Kasich today joins executives from NiSource Midstream Services and Pennant Midstream, as well as state and local officials, for the dedication of the companies’ Hickory Bend gas processing plant here. The governor will then travel south to Harrison County where he will celebrate the opening of UEO Buckeye's Harrison Hub natural gas processing and fractionation complex near Scio.
Robert C. Skaggs Jr., NiSource Midstream president and CEO, and Chad Zamarin, NiSource chief operating officer and Pennant Midstream president, will be on hand for the event here, which is expected to begin at 11 a.m.
The Harrison County event, which will take place at 1:30 p.m., will include comments from Frank Tsuru, M3 Midstream president and CEO, and Mike Stice, CEO of Access Midstream, along with state and local officials. UEO Buckeye is a joint venture between M3/Momentum Midstream, EV Energy Partners, and Access Midstream.
Pennant, a joint venture between NiSource Midstream and Hilcorp affiliate Harvest Pipeline, is investing $375 million to build a new gathering and processing system that includes 55 miles of pipelines stretching from Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania to Columbiana County. The entire system is expected to be operational by June 2014.
The cryogenic plant, under construction on 90 acres along State Line Road, takes natural gas drawn from horizontal wells in the region and chills it to a point where dry gas such as methane separates from natural-gas liquids. Those liquids are then shipped for further processing where they can be converted into products such as ethane, butane or propane.
The UEO system includes approximately 63 miles of natural gas and natural-gas liquids gathering lines, a 200-million cubic-feet-per-day cryogenic processing facility located near Kensington in Columbiana County, and a 45,000-barrel-per-day natural gas liquids fractionation, storage and rail facility near Scio in Harrison County. The first phase of production began in September.
Construction continues in Harrison County on the second processing and fractionation units, which are scheduled to be completed in December.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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