A buddy of mine works for a company designing facilities like these. Shale Gas has brought in so many gas sources in places that did not have significant gas production prior.
Their business has been booming for years with lots of competition. The rush to get these built and running has lead to a lot of shoddy design and construction.
Processing plants, pipelines worth $7 billion coming to Ohio
http://www.ohio.com/blogs/drilling/ohio-utica-shale-1.291290/processing-plants-pipelines-worth-7-billion-coming-to-ohio-1.356200
December 9, 2012
A shale boom is under way in Ohio: Land has been leased. Nearly 190 wells have been drilled. Natural gas, oil and other liquids are being pumped from Ohio’s liquids-rich Utica shale. But what happens next?
Ohio is looking at an investment in excess of $10 billion in processing facilities, pipelines and compression facilities — the so-called midstream projects — to get those commodities to market.
Seven processing-separation plants for natural gas plus liquids and four pipeline networks are under construction in eastern Ohio — with a price tag exceeding $7.2 billion. And that does not include interim facilities that are starting to pop up in Ohio.
There’s nothing in Ohio like what’s taking shape in Columbiana, Harrison, Mahoning and Noble counties.
In addition to the new plants, eastern Ohio is likely to see an additional $5 billion in new pipeline projects in the next few years because the state’s existing pipeline system is too old and too small to handle the volume of gas and liquids that energy companies are tapping into.
The energy companies are getting a little antsy by the delays in getting such infrastructure built in eastern Ohio because the wells are increasingly ready.
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