Blue Racer Plans Barge Operations in WV in Third Quarter
The State Journal
15 June 2016
By Jim Ross
Blue Racer Midstream, a natural gas and natural gas liquids
processing facility in northern West Virginia, will begin barge
transport of its products later this year.
Blue Racer CEO Stephen L. Arata said the company will begin moving
product on the Ohio River sometime in the third quarter. He
confirmed the timetable in response to a query following his
company’s presentation at a recent Utica Shale conference at
Canton, Ohio.
Company spokesmen were not ready to discuss details of the
company’s plans to transport its raw materials or products by
barge.
According to the company’s website, natural gas liquids currently
are transported from the complex at Natrium, on the Wetzel and
Marshall county lines, to downstream markets via rail, truck and
pipeline. The addition of barge shipments on the Ohio River will
make the Natrium complex the only fractionation facility to offer
barge service to Utica Shale producers, the company said.
Blue Racer is a joint venture formed in December 2012 by Caiman
Energy II and Dominion to own, operate, develop and acquire
midstream assets in the Utica Shale and certain adjacent areas in
the Marcellus Shale. Blue Racer provides natural gas gathering,
compression, dehydrating, treating, processing and transportation
services and NGL fractionation and transportation services. Blue
Racer also gathers, stabilizes and transports condensate.