Houston-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan said this week full commercial service started on Gulf Coast Express pipeline from Waha hub near Coyanosa in west Texas to Agua Dulce near Corpus Christi. Fully subscribed under long-term contracts, GCX provides capacity of about 2.0 billion cubic feet per day for natural gas to Gulf Coast markets to help relieve constraints in Permian Basin and help reduce flaring (82 miles of 36-inch pipe, 365 miles of 42-inch pipe). Sital Mody, president of Kinder Morgan’s natural gas midstream division, said, “With natural gas supplies projected to rise over the next 20 years from supply basins such as the Permian, our strong network of pipelines provides the ability to connect this supply to the growing markets along the Gulf Coast.”
Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, subsidiary of KMI, owns 34 percent interest in GCX and operates the pipeline. Other equity holders include Altus Midstream, DCP Midstream and Targa Resources. The pipeline started service Wednesday. Construction on the $1.7 billion project started in early 2018 and had been scheduled for completion next month.
Kinder Morgan will be concentrating pipeline network development along both sides of IH10/20 in Culberson county, Texas….and expect to see manufacturing plants for extruded poly pipeline, styrofoam,
and many other products requiring a large steady supply of natural gas and crude oil products with trucking and rail access development in that area. Culberson county will become a hub for Texas oil and gas production and manufactured products…..besides the space launch facilities development north of Van Horn, Texas that will require vast amounts of liquified natural gas and liquid ozone.
The Frac Sand mines in Winkler and Ward counties may have a future supplying quartz glass semiconductor substrate ingots to Dow/Owens Corning because of the abundant natural gas to fire the refining furnaces for silicon wafers.
Kinder Morgan will be developing the abandoned railroad spur between Pecos, Reeves county, Texas and
Balmorhea, Reeves county, Texas…placing Refinery Equipment Of Texas (REOT) skid mounted refineries
along the spur to load finished products of gasoline, diesel, LNG, aviation fuel, etc on tank cars to be
removed by rail from the southern Delaware Basin.. More natural gas and crude oil gathering lines
will be installed in the southern Delaware Basin around Saragosa and Verhalen, Reeves county, Texas.