Texas Company To Build Ethane Pipeline

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Enterprise Products Partners of Houston, Texas has announced it will build a 1,230-mile pipeline to transport ethane from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to the Gulf Coast. The pipeline, named  the "ATEX Express," will have an initial capacity of 125,000 barrels of ethane a day and will be designed to eventually transport up to 190,000 barrels a day. West Virginia Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette says he still thinks there's enough gas to support probably two crackers in West Virginia. Rob Alsop, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's chief of staff, said last month that attracting a cracker remains the governor's No. 1 goal.