Falcon Ethane Pipeline
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Falcon Ethane Pipeline is an operating natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, United States.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Ohio's MarkWest Cadiz and Utica East Ohio Scio facilities, and in Pennsylvania's at MarkWest Houston facility. It ends at the Monaca Shell Plant in Pennyslvania.[1][2]
Project details
- Operator: Shell Pipeline Company LP[3]
- Owner: Shell Pipeline Company LP[3]
- Parent company: Shell plc
- Capacity: 107,000 barrels per day[1]
- Length: 97 miles[1]
- Diameter: 10 inches, 12 inches, 16 inches[1]
- Status: Operating[1]
- Start year: 2021[3]
Background
According to June 2020 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the pipeline is a 97-mile system originating in Ohio's MarkWest Cadiz and Utica East Ohio Scio facilities, and in Pennsylvania's at MarkWest Houston facility. It ends at the Monaca Shell Plant in Pennyslvania.[1]
Shell's website notes, "As the sole supplier of ethane to the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Pa., the 97-mile pipeline system connects three major ethane source points in Pennsylvania and Ohio with new and reliable infrastructure."[3]
The pipeline was completed in 2020 and commissioned in October, 2021.[3]
