On June 20, Enterprise Products Partners LP said it will build a new cryogenic natural gas processing facility and associated natural gas and NGL pipeline infrastructure to aid NGL-rich gas production in the Delaware Basin.

The company has not determined where the new plant’s site will be located; but the plant’s nameplate capacity will be 300 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) with the capability to extract more than 40,000 barrels per day of NGL. The facility is expected to begin service in the second quarter of 2018.

The rich-gas gathering lines will be constructed, as will a residue pipeline to Waha and an NGL pipeline to Enterprise’s Mid-America Pipeline system.

A.J. (Jim) Teague, CEO of Enterprise’s general partner, said that the joint venture processing plant at Waha is scheduled to begin service in 2016’s third quarter. He added that the company wants to increase processing capacity in the Delaware Basin to 800 MMcf/d, up from 2012’s 40 MMcf/d. Teague added that this recently announced project is the third cryogenic gas processing plant that Enterprise has announced in less than two years.

Enterprise Products Partners LP is based in Houston.