Mont Belvieu Salt Dome Storage

A salt deposit mine located 6 9 km 4 3 miles ssw of mont belvieu center 5 miles ne of baytown on private land.

Mont belvieu salt dome storage. It is the site of the largest underground storage facility for liquidfied petroleum gas in the us. The facility is 20 years old with 77 acres of historically preserved flora. Today mont belvieu can be considered a giant ngl processing hub. 1 the largest u s.

Mont belvieu sits atop an underground mountain of pure salt. Mineralization is a salt dome deposit mineral occurrence model information. Pure salt s brine is treated for naturally occurring carbonates and silicates. Pure salt s mont belvieu facility is located on the barber hill salt dome.

Since the 1950 s oil companies have been carving out huge caverns in the salt thousands of feet beneath the surface. Gulf coast salt domes have been used for underground lpg storage since 1951. Now there are. The mont belvieu fractionators handle ngls delivered from several sources including energy transfer s lone star express and justice pipelines.

Gulf coast underground lpg storage facility is in the barbers hill salt dome at mont belvieu tx. Enterprise products partners l p. The treated brine is then pumped to the baytown plant via pipeline which is 8 5 miles away. Lpg production from 1 200 texas oil and gas fields are upstream from the barbers hill storage facility.

Mont belvieu is a city in chambers and liberty counties in the u s. Fractionator vi was placed in service in february 2019. Energy transfer maintains a leading position for natural gas liquids ngl fractionation. Diapiric salt structures hosted in middle jurassic louann limestone and salt.

The markham storage facility is one of two storage locations operated by lyondellbasell s pipeline group in the texas gulf coast region. With its strategic location along the us gulf coast proximity to major refining complexes underground storage capacity and access to onshore and offshore transportation for shipping liquids to. A houston based midstream energy partnership said today it has signed a letter of intent to acquire 30 salt dome storage caverns in mont belvieu.