Processing

Crestwood currently owns and operates three natural gas cryogenic processing units with aggregate capacity of 360 MMcfd. In the Barnett Shale, the Cowtown Plant, consists of two units and has a design capacity of 200 MMcfd; and the Corvette Plant has a design capacity of 125 MMcfd. In the Granite Wash, the Indian Creek Plant has a capacity of 36 MMcfd and the ability to expand as the play continues to develop. All of these plants use cryogenic processing to recover or extract a mixture of NGLs such as ethane, propane, butane and natural gasoline. The NGLs are sent through third-party pipelines to fractionation facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas, where they are separated into a variety of petrochemical and refining feedstocks. Crestwood is paid a fixed-fee per MCF for the extraction of all NGLs from the natural gas gathered on its Barnett Shale gathering system and a blend of percentage-of-proceeds and fixed-fee arrangements for the NGLs recovered by the Indian Creek plant in the Granite Wash.




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