Enterprise Products Partners L.P. () is an American
midstream
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natural gas
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and
crude oil
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pipeline
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company with headquarters in
Houston, Texas
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.
It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004. The company ranked No. 105 in the 2018
Fortune 500
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list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Dan Duncan
Dan L Duncan (January 2, 1933 – March 29, 2010) was an American born in Center, Texas. He was the co-founder, chairman and majority shareholder of Enterprise Products.
Early life and education
Duncan was born in 1933 in rural Shelby County, ...
was the majority owner until his death in 2010.
History
In 2005, Ralph S. Cunningham became CEO of Enterprise Products Partners.
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''Forbes''. Associated Press. July 23, 2007
On July 23, 2007, Cunningham replaced Michael A. Creel as president and CEO of the affiliated
Enterprise GP Holdings
Enterprise GP Holdings was a midstream energy holding company based in Houston, Texas, that made its debut on the Fortune 500 list at #177 in 2007. LP (). Cunningham had earlier been named interim president and CEO, and resigned from the Enterprise Products CEO position effective July 31, 2007. Creel then became president and CEO of the company's general partner Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
Cunningham also became a director of both Enterprise GP Holdings and affiliated
Duncan Energy Partners LP ().
Enterprise Products acquired
Enterprise GP Holdings
Enterprise GP Holdings was a midstream energy holding company based in Houston, Texas, that made its debut on the Fortune 500 list at #177 in 2007. in 2010.
Incidents
On June 7, 2005, during replacement of an Enterprise Products pipeline pigging facility in
Mirando City, Texas, HVL gases leaked past a stopple. The gases were ignited by a nearby air compressor, killing one of the repair crew.
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On February 8, 2011, a series of explosions destroyed much of a Mont Belvieu facility owned and operated by Enterprise Products. The ensuing fire was controlled after two hours. One contractor at the plant was not accounted for, however no other injuries were reported.
On December 27, 2011, controllers for Enterprise Products received an alarm, for a leak on an LPG pipeline. The leak location was found in
Loving County, Texas
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. Repair crew excavated the area, and found a full girth weld failure. During the pipeline repair, a flash fire involving residual pipeline product in the soil occurred the next day, injuring 3 employees, one of whom required in-patient hospitalization. The rupture was attributed to the complete circumferential separation of an acetylene girth weld dating to 1928, and the flash fire was attributed to operator error.
On January 26, 2015, a 20-inch Enterprise Products ATEX pipeline carrying ethane exploded and burned in Brooke County, West Virginia. Despite snow in the area, five acres of woodlands burned, and 1,283,000 gallons of ethane were consumed, or lost. The fireball melted siding on nearby homes and damaged power lines; it is believed that day's snowy weather lessened the damage. Reports suspect a girth weld failure from ductile tensile overload, with the pipeline being less than two years old. There were no injuries.
On December 1, 2015, personnel from Enterprise discovered a spill at their West Cushing Tank Farm, in Cushing, Oklahoma. Approximately 42,000 gallons of crude oil were released within the terminal. A tank line had failed from internal corrosion.
On November 29, 2016, an Enterprise Products pipeline exploded in Platte County, Missouri, burning about 210,000 gallons of an ethane propane mixture. There were no evacuations or injuries. The cause of the failure was stress corrosion cracking.
On January 30, 2017, a road crew punctured the
Seaway S-1
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crude oil pipeline in
Texas
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, which is jointly joined by Enterprise Products Partners and the Canadian
Enbridge Inc. through the joint venture Seaway Crude Pipeline Company. Two days later, it was unclear how much oil had spilled over the nearby Highway 121 northeast of
Dallas
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. After the incident, supply concerns reportedly helped push "oil prices 2% higher in early trading to nearly $54 a barrel.
On December 6, 2017, an Enterprise Products pipeline exploded around 1:30 am near Loving, in southeast New Mexico. Eddy County officials asked residents within a 2-mile radius of the intersection of U.S. Highway 285 and State Road 31 to voluntarily evacuate.
On August 21, 2020, a dredging vessel hit a submerged Enterprise Products propane pipeline, in the harbor of
Corpus Christi, Texas
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, causing an explosion and fire. Five of the crew were killed, and, six others were injured.
Assets
According to the company website and their regulatory fillings, it has the following assets:
["Corporate Profile"](_blank)
. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Retrieved September 16, 2013.
Pipelines
of pipelines,
including:
* NGL Pipelines & Services: of natural gas liquids pipelines
* Onshore Natural Gas Pipelines & Services: of natural gas pipelines
* Onshore Crude Oil Pipelines & Services: of onshore crude oil pipelines
* Offshore Pipelines & Services: of Gulf of Mexico natural gas and crude oil pipelines
* Propylene Pipelines: of
propylene
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pipelines in
Texas
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and
Louisiana
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.
Storage (salt dome)
* of NGL storage capacity
* of natural gas storage capacity
Marine Terminals
* NGL Import/Export Terminals on the Houston Ship Channel
* Import: unload up to 8,100 Bbls/hr
* Export: load up to 10,000 Bbls/hr
Fractionation
* 19 NGL and propylene fractionators
* NGL: nine plants, with a net capacity of approximately 439 Mbpd
* Propylene: two facilities, with a net capacity of approximately 87 Mbpd
* Isomerization: three plants, with a net capacity of approximately 116 Mbpd
Natural gas processing
* 26 plants, with a net processing capacity of 6.3 Bcf/day
References
External links
*
Enterprise Product System Map
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Companies based in Houston
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