NGL Surge

By 2013, nearly 300Mb/d of incremental NGL supply will flow to Mont Belvieu from the burgeoning U.S. wet gas shale plays. Belvieu continues to dominate the NGL universe because of its critical location at the center of NGL gathering systems, product distribution pipelines and the Gulf Coast petrochemical feedstock market.  Is this hub big enough to handle the huge production growth?  Who stands to benefit from all of the infrastructure expansion?   In Part I of our series on Mont Belvieu titled Can Mont Belvieu Handle the NGL Supply Surge? we’ll examine this thing called Mont Belvieu and look at the “Big Four” Belvieu players to see how their assets dictate trading terms at the hub.