Plains All American Pipeline and Enterprise Products Partners have decided to expand their Eagle Ford Joint Venture crude oil pipeline. The expansion of the pipeline is aimed at increasing its capacity to 470,000 barrels per day of light and medium crude oil grades. This is in order to accommodate the additional volumes expected from the PAA’s Cactus pipeline currently under construction. The Eagle Ford JV pipeline expansion is expected to cost approximately USD 120M and is scheduled to be in service in the second quarter of 2015.
The Eagle Ford JV Pipeline system joint venture between Plains and Enterprise serves the Three Rivers and Corpus Christi refineries and other markets via marine transport facilities at Corpus Christi. The pipeline supplies the Houston-area market through a connection to the Enterprise Crude Pipeline terminal at Lyssy in Wilson County, Texas. The pipeline expansion will be completed in stages that include adding pumping capacity and looping certain segments of the existing system. The expansion also includes constructing an additional 2.3 million barrels of operational storage capacity in Gardendale, Tilden and Corpus Christi.