DCP Midstream Partners LP’s Lucerne 2 natural gas processing plant is now in service in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin, the company said June 29. It connects to the Front Range Pipeline for NGL takeaway to Mont Belvieu, Texas.
DCP has a one-third ownership interest in the pipeline. Lucerne's 200 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of processing capacity brings overall processing capacity in the basin to about 400MMcf/d.
Lucerne 2 plant is the largest of a nine-plant system in the basin, and it is owned and operated by the DCP enterprise. The enterprise has about 800MMcf/d of total processing capacity. In the last two years, gathering and processing capacity in the basin increased by 80%.
DCP Midstream Partners LP is based in Denver.
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