Company: PAGP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001581990-25-000006
Chunk: 382

Company: PLAINS GP HOLDINGS LP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 382
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Ownership InterestNumber ofRack SpotsNumber ofStorage SpotsNGL Rail Facilities75-100%264 1,543 

(1)Represents total capacity of the facilities, net to our ownership interest.

(2)Average daily volumes are calculated as the total volumes for the year, net to our interest, divided by the number of days in the year.

(3)Includes total mileage of pipelines in which we own a less than 100% interest.

Natural Gas Processing and NGL Infrastructure

Our network of liquids infrastructure includes NGL fractionation facilities, underground NGL storage caverns, above ground storage tanks, NGL pipelines, and rail and truck terminals. With these assets, we process, fractionate, store and transport NGL such as ethane, propane, butane and condensate. The unique integrated and geographically diverse nature of our Canadian infrastructure provides the opportunity to maximize margins across the NGL value chain for both us and our customers. The most significant of these assets include the following:

Empress Facility

We own and operate four gas processing facilities near Empress, Alberta. These facilities, referred to as straddle plants because they “straddle” gas transportation pipelines, process natural gas to extract ethane and NGL mix entrained in the gas stream before returning the gas to the transportation pipelines. We acquire the rights to extract the NGL from producers and/or shippers of the gas streams that pass through our Empress facility and then purchase natural gas to replace the thermal content attributable to the NGL that was extracted. The NGL mix can be fractionated at our Empress facility or transported along the Enbridge pipeline system for fractionation at our Sarnia facility.

Our Empress plants are capable of processing up to 5.7 Bcf of natural gas per day; however, supply available to these plants is typically in the 3.5 to 4.5 Bcf per day range. These plants produce approximately 65,000 to 100,000 barrels per day of ethane, and 40,000 to 60,000 barrels per day of NGL mix. Our Empress fractionation facility is capable of processing and producing up to 26,000 barrels per day of NGL products and is connected to rail loading infrastructure at Empress and our PPTC pipeline system, which enables NGL to be transported to storage and loading terminals in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Co-Ed Pipeline

Our primary NGL transportation supply system, the