May 14, 2012 [OPIS] - Enterprise Products Partners plans to shut its Eagle propane terminal in Chester County, Pa., from June 30, 2012, according to a customer notice obtained by OPIS.
Enterprise will allow customers to load product at the facility until June 29, 2012 at 5 p.m. ET, the company said Thursday.
The decision to shut the facility was reached after considering business and economic factors which did not support continuing operation at the terminal, the company said in that notice.
However, a six-inch-diameter TE Products Pipeline that serves the facility will not be impacted by the closure and will continue to serve third-party terminals in the region, Enterprise said.
Enterprise plans to remove the equipment at the site for future redeployment but will retain ownership of the property and pipeline right-of-way, it added. Employees at the facility will be reassigned to other company locations, it said.
A company spokesman, Rick Rainey, confirmed the facility would be mothballed indefinitely for business and economic reasons. The bulletin did not clearly specify if the facility would be shut for good.
Rainey clarified that the facility’s shutdown would not impact supply to customers as there are two third-party terminals operating in that area.
“The other two terminals are not owned by (Enterprise). They are third party facilities. Also since the equipment will be used elsewhere the closure is permanent,” Rainey said in an e-mail.
Rainey was not able to immediately provide location information of the other two terminals, or their owners.
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