S&B Adds Phillips 66's Sweeny Hub Units to Long List of NGL Projects

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) (Houston, Texas) picked S&B Engineers and Constructors Limited (Houston) to perform engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for two natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation plants at Phillips 66's Sweeny Hub in Texas. S&B already is at work on several major NGL projects in Texas, including two large complexes in Mont Belvieu. Industrial Info is tracking $1.75 billion in active projects involving S&B.

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The EPC contract covers the $200 million NGL Fractionation Unit 2 and $200 million NGL Fractionation Unit #3 at the Sweeny Refinery in Old Ocean, Texas. Each unit will have a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day (BBL/d) and treat and fractionate a demethanized natural gas mixture into ethane, propane, isobutane, normal butane and natural gasoline. The purified NGL and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will be supplied to the petrochemical and heating markets. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on Unit 2 and Unit 3.

"This contract represents the twelfth fractionation plant awarded to S & B in the last five years," said James Brookshire, the chief executive officer of S&B, in a press release. Both units are set to kick off in the fourth quarter, and currently are expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2020. The Sweeny Refinery currently has a capacity of 247,000 BBL/d.

S&B also is performing EPC work for Energy Transfer Partners LP (NYSE:ETP) (Dallas, Texas): the $350 million Train 5 and $350 million Train 6 at the Lone Star NGL fractionation facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas. Each 120,000-BBL/d unit will process NGL supplies from the Woodford and Eagle Ford shale plays and the Permian Basin. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on Train 5 and Train 6, and May 11, 2018, article - Energy Transfer Prepares to Place Major Growth Projects into Service, Begin New Ones.

"Lone Star's Frac [Train] 5 is still expected to be in service in the third quarter of 2018," said Thomas Long, the chief financial officer of Energy Transfer Partners, in a recent quarterly earnings-related conference call. "It is fully subscribed by multiple long-term, fixed-fee contracts and also includes NGL product infrastructure and a new, 3 million-barrel Y-grade cavern. And Frac [Train] 6 is expected to be in service in the second quarter of 2019. The majority of this frac is fully contracted under demand-based contracts."

Also in Mont Belvieu, S&B is the EPC contractor for Enterprise Products Partners LP's (NYSE:EPD) (Houston) $500 million Train 9 addition at its NGL fractionator complex's propylene facility. The 85,000-BBL/d unit will increase the complex's total capacity to 685,000 BBL/day, to accommodate growing NGL volumes from the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report and April 13, 2018, article - Enterprise Products Helps Lead Mont Belvieu, Texas, to $3 Billion in First-Half 2018 Project Starts, Completions.

LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) (Houston) picked S&B to provide engineering and procurement services for its proposed debottlenecking at its Bayport Polyolefins facility in Pasadena. LyondellBasell would increase plant capacity about 30% to 40% through debottlenecking units C and D by replacing or adding new reactors, install larger pumps and upgrading pipes. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.

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