HomeMagazine2016March 2016, Vol. 243, No. 3U.S. Production of Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids Expected to Increase Through 2017

March 2016, Vol. 243, No. 3

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U.S. Production of Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids Expected to Increase Through 2017

U.S. production of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL)—a group of products including ethane, propane, butanes, and natural gasoline—is expected to increase from 3.86 million barrels per day in 2015 to 4.33 million b/d in 2017, according to EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). HGLs are produced at both natural gas processing plants and petroleum refineries, but natural gas plants are expected to provide more than 95% of the forecast production growth. Between 2008 and 2015, HGL production at natural gas processing plants (including fractionation facilities) increased as a by-product of the growing supply of natural gas from shale gas and tight oil formations. Projects that increased the c

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