Crude Export Restirctions

Kinder Morgan expect to commission the first 50 Mb/d of condensate splitter capacity at their Galena Park terminal in Houston during the next month. The capacity is leased to BP North America and will be supplied with condensate via Kinder’s Eagle Ford pipeline gathering network. Another 235 Mb/d of condensate splitter capacity could be online by 2017 – most of it in Corpus Christi. Meanwhile the jury is still out on whether it makes more sense for a producer to use a condensate splitter or to just process their condensate through a stabilizer with distillation. Either way the resulting products seem likely to end up in the export market. Today we detail the splitter plans.