Wit Ventures: Ethane Pipeline Enters Service to Nova Site.

Sunday 4 February 2018

Ethane Pipeline Enters Service to Nova Site.

From Paul Morden, Sarnia Observer

A $500 million US pipeline project supplying an additional source of ethane to the Nova Chemicals Corunna site in St. Clair Township has gone into service.

Houston-based Kinder Morgan announced this month its 434-km Utopia Pipeline from Harrison County, Ohio to Windsor has begun operating.

It has an initial capacity of 50,000 barrels per day, with the potential to increase to more than 75,000 barrels per day. It delivers ethane from the Utica shale region of the eastern U.S. to Windsor and then on by other pipelines to Nova Chemicals Corunna site.

“The project team, in coordination with local, state and federal agencies, has done a tremendous job developing a project that provides ethane takeaway capacity from the Utica shale to the growing petrochemical industry,” Don Lindley, a pipeline president with Kinder Morgan, said in a news release.

Back in 2014, Nova Chemicals entered into a long-term agreement with Kinder Morgan to access ethane from the Utica shale region through the pipeline.

It is part of ongoing improvements at the Corunna site where ethane is made into ethylene Nova Chemicals processes into polyethylene plastic at nearby manufacturing sites.

In recent years, the company has switched the Corunna site from using oil feedstocks to use up to 100 per cent ethane, from natural gas piped from the Eastern U.S.

In December, Nova Chemicals announced it was moving ahead with a $2-billion project to double production at its Corunna site and build a new polyethylene plant next door.

The company already manufactures polyethylene at its Moore and St. Clair River sites in St. Clair Township.

A schedule provided by Nova Chemicals calls for site clearing, berm construction and other site preparations for the new polyethylene plant on Rokeby Line to be finished by the third quarter of this year.

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