Energy Facilities: Houston, Lake Charles

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Enterprise Products Partners will build an ethane export facility on the Houston Ship Channel pursuant to a long-term agreement with the Port of Houston Authority. G2X Energy, Inc., has received the required air permits to construct and operate a natural gas-to-gasoline facility on Port of Lake Charles property.

Enterprise to Locate Major Ethane Export Terminal on Houston Ship Channel 

Enterprise Products Partners will build an ethane export facility on the Houston Ship Channel, signing a long-term agreement with the Port of Houston Authority for use of its facilities adjacent to Enterprise's existing terminal at Morgan's Point.

"The agreement is exciting for the port and the entire region in terms of creating jobs and fostering positive economic impact," noted Port Commission Chairman Janiece Longoria. "The energy renaissance under way in the state of Texas continues to drive new opportunities along the Houston Ship Channel."

The port authority describes the 30-year agreement "as a significant transaction ... that will enhance the value of the existing lease with Enterprise." The facility is expected to begin operations in the third quarter of 2016.

Enterprise also plans to construct a pipeline from its Mont Belvieu (TX) natural gas liquids fractionation and storage complex, which will provide direct access to ethane supply. The export terminal will have the capacity to load fully refrigerated ethane at approximately 10,000 barrels per hour.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a major North American provider of midstream energy services. The Port of Houston is host to a vast petrochemical manufacturing complex.

Lake Charles: G2X Energy Receives Air Permits to Construct Gas to Gasoline Facility on Port Property

G2X Energy, Inc. announced on June 5 that the State of Louisiana and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have granted its wholly-owned subsidiary, Big Lake Fuels LLC, the required air permits to construct and operate a natural gas-to-gasoline facility on Port of Lake Charles property. The project will convert domestic natural gas into approximately 12,500 barrels per day of zero sulfur, RBOB gasoline and/or commercial grade methanol.

"We are tremendously excited to announce this critical milestone in the development of the first commercial scale natural gas-to-gasoline facility in the United States," said Tim Vail, president and CEO of G2X Energy, Inc. "The issuance of these permits will allow us to maintain our development schedule goals, and we are very fortunate to have the support of great partners like the LDEQ, the State of Louisiana, the Port of Lake Charles and the Lake Charles community at large."

G2X will use commercially proven processes and the best available emission control technologies in both its methanol production and its methanol to gasoline conversion, which together comprise the industrial facility that will produce both marketable methanol and unleaded automotive gasoline, Mr. Vail explained.

Driven by an abundance of shale gas and resulting expansion of North American natural gas reserves, G2X is creating a platform to expand the role of natural gas in the existing chemicals and transportation fuels market. G2X’s natural gas-to- methanol plant in Pampa (TX) is under construction, and the development of the Big Lake Fuels plant in Lake Charles continues at a rapid pace.