Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners said last week it established record inlet volumes at its natural gas processing plants at 8.3 Bcfd in first quarter. That’s up 7 percent from 2025Q1. Enterprise said it was “driven by a 9 percent increase in Permian plant inlet volumes.”
Enterprise also reported records for equivalent pipeline transportation volumes (up 7 percent to 14.2 million b/d), marine terminal volumes (up 15 percent to 2.3 million b/d) and NGL fractionation volumes (up 16 percent to 1.9 million b/d).
Assets placed into service in 1Q included Mentone West 2 gas processing plant in Loving County, and the company announced two new natural gas processing plants in Permian Basin (one each in Delaware and Midland basins with capacity of 300 million cfd). Capital spending for 2026 is forecast at $2.3 billion to $2.6 billion.
A.J. (Jim) Teague, co-CEO, said April 28, “Enterprise began 2026 with a strong start in the first quarter. Contributions from new assets placed in service over the past year and continuing to ramp up, such as the Bahia NGL pipeline, NGL fractionator 14 and three Permian plants, led to record volumes across most of our integrated system… Our commercial team in the Permian continues to have success in underwriting new natural gas processing plants and related infrastructure to support future growth.”
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