Gray Oak Pipeline LLC sanctioned a 120-Mb/d expansion of the pipeline, operated by Enbridge, following a successful open season. The expansion will have a phased in-service date and is expected to be fully online in 2026. While the 850-mile crude oil pipeline system extends from various origins in West Texas, the expansion capacity will originate from Crane, TX. Gray Oak’s destination points include Corpus Christi, Ingleside and Freeport. The expansion capacity is to Corpus/Ingleside to accommodate growing demand for crude exports at Enbridge’s Ingleside Energy Center (EIEC). This facility remains highly utilized. In fact, according to our Crude Voyager report, EIEC recently set both new daily and quarterly export records.
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Gray Oak Pipeline Announces 120 Mb/d Open Season
Gray Oak Pipeline LLC has announced a binding open season starting on May 9 to gauge shipper interest in expanding the Gray Oak Pipeline by up to 120 Mb/d.
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I Want to Break Free - Gray Oak Expansion Helping to Ease Permian-to-Corpus Crude Oil Congestion
The pipelines carrying crude oil from the Permian Basin in West Texas to the Corpus Christi area have been as jammed as an urban highway on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. The Gray Oak Pipeline, the largest from the Permian to Corpus, has just completed the 80-Mb/d first phase of a planned two-phase expansion that will add a total of 120 Mb/d of capacity. In today’s RBN blog, we’ll discuss what this project means for pipeline congestion and crude exports out of Corpus and nearby Ingleside.
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Movin' On Up - Gray Oak Stands Out as the Only Permian Crude Pipeline to Greenlight an Expansion
As crude oil production in the Permian continues to grow and pipelines from West Texas to the Gulf Coast edge closer to full utilization, it’s becoming a challenge for producers and shippers alike. Amid this capacity crunch, one pipeline stands out as the only one with a detailed expansion plan: the 850-mile, 900-Mb/d Gray Oak Pipeline from West Texas to Corpus Christi and Sweeny, TX, which started up in late 2019 and became fully operational in early 2020. In today’s RBN blog — the latest in our series on Permian crude oil pipelines — we discuss Gray Oak Pipeline’s dynamic story, including its shifting ownership, strategic connectivity and expansion plans.
