Canadian ethylene plants have been receiving U.S.-sourced ethane by pipeline for two and a half years now, and waterborne ethane exports from Marcus Hook, PA to Norway started earlier in 2016. Soon the real fun will begin, when Enterprise Products Partners initiates (and quickly ramps up) ethane exports from a new, 200 Mb/d terminal on the Houston Ship Channel at Morgan’s Point. The destinations of the ships leaving Morgan’s Point are likely to be places like India, Brazil, Europe, and maybe even Mexico. Today, we consider the imminent bump-up in U.S. ethane export capacity, the international markets ethane will be headed to in the near-term, and the longer-term question about how much ethane exports can grow.
Just a few years ago, before the Shale Revolution, the thought that sometime soon the U.S. would be piping significant volumes of ethane to Canada and floating ship after refrigerated ship of the lightest natural gas liquid (NGL) to European ethylene plants (steam crackers) would be dismissed as nothing short of crazy. But here we are. As shown in Figure 1 (left graph), ethane exports to Canada via the Mariner West and Vantage pipelines ramped up from zero in 2013 to average 38 Mb/d in 2014, 65 Mb/d in 2015 and almost 80 Mb/d so far this year. Oceangoing ethane exports started on March 9 of this year when the JS Ineos Intrepid departed Marcus Hook with 175 Mbbl of ethane headed for INEOS’s cracker at Rafnes, Norway. Since then about 16 Mb/d of ethane has moved out of Marcus Hook, with 22 Mb/d exported in May (Figure 1, right graph).
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About the song
“On the Road Again” was written by Willie Nelson and appears as the first song on side one, record one of Willie Nelson and Family’s Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack album. Nelson had his first starring role in the movie Honeysuckle Rose and, while on a flight, the film’s producer, Jerry Schatzberg, asked Nelson to come up with a theme song for the movie. Nelson wrote the lyrics for “On the Road Again” on an air-sickness bag before they landed. The song was recorded on Brian Ahern’s Enactron Truck Mobile Studio in Hollywood in the fall of 1979. “On the Road Again” was released as a single in August 1980 and went to #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, #7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. It won Nelson a Grammy Award for Best Country Song. Personnel on the record were: Willie Nelson (lead vocal, guitar), Jody Payne (guitar), Bobbie Nelson (piano), Chris Ethridge (bass), Paul English (drums), and Mickey Raphael (harmonica).
Honeysuckle Rose, the soundtrack album by Willie Nelson and Family, is a double album featuring songs from the film performed by a number of artists, including Emmylou Harris, Johnny Gimble, and Jeannie Seely. Recorded in the fall of 1979 and produced by Willie Nelson, the album was released in July 1980. It went to #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #11 on the Billboard 200 Album chart. Three singles were released from the LP.
Willie Nelson is an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor. One of the founding figures of the “outlaw country” movement in the seventies, Nelson is one of the most popular and recognized figures in country music. He has released 102 studio albums, 14 live albums, 51 compilation albums, two soundtrack albums, and 132 singles. He has appeared in 57 motion pictures and television shows. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Agricultural Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors and the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress. Nelson continues to record and tour and is currently on tour in the U.S.
