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A natural gas processing facility is being built south of Hermleigh. The facility is owned by Producers Midstream, LP, of Dallas.
A new natural gas processing facility is under construction in Scurry County.
Located south of Hermleigh, the facility, when complete, will be a cryogenic gas processing plant owned by Producers Midstream, LP, of Dallas.
Producers Midstream’s construction manager on the project, Roy Fagan, said the plant should be operational toward the end of 2020.
“It’ll be the latter part of the year. I can’t precisely tell you that right now, because stuff with this virus has kept us a little delayed, so we don’t know exactly when we’re coming on right now,” Fagan said.
According to Fagan, the plant will employ fewer than 15 people.
The plant will take raw natural gas and separate out liquid hydrocarbons, he said.
“What we do is, we take natural gas out of the wells, which are heavy in hydrocarbon liquids, and we take the hydrocarbon liquids out and the inerts out, like nitrogen and CO2, and we put the natural gas back in the pipeline for sale to homes or businesses. It’s pipeline-grade methane,” he said.
“And we take the liquids and we sell the liquids to another area that takes the liquids and fractionates them out to propane, methane, butane, etc.”
The plant is called “cryogenic” because it uses a cooling process rather than heat to separate the various hydrocarbon liquids and inert gases from the raw natural gas.