Gulf Coast Fractionators

With all the new NGLs coming on, there has been periodic hand wringing about fractionator capacity.  The good news is that there is a lot of capacity being built.  So much so that it appears that the fractionators will be able to keep up with the producers and inbound pipes, at least most of the time. Notice however, that even though new NGL production from shale gas is growing most rapidly in the Northeast over 60 percent of the new capacity will be at Mont Belvieu or the Texas Gulf Coast region. Today we examine why Mont Belvieu remains the center of the NGL universe.