Eagle Ford Shale boosts growth at Texas ports

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Get ready for the exports and higher prices at the pump

From imports to exports

The port used to be a crude importer but is transforming into an exporter thanks to the Eagle Ford Shale activity, with companies taking crude by barge from Corpus Christi to refineries in Louisiana and other states.

Port Corpus Christi also is planning an export terminal for liquefied natural gas, which could eventually export natural gas from the Eagle Ford to foreign markets.

Although the Eagle Ford has a large “window” where drillers predominantly find natural gas, those areas aren’t being tapped now thanks to low natural gas prices.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/03/11/eagle-ford-shale-boosts-growth-at-texas-ports/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=FuelFix&utm_campaign=FuelFixNewsLetter

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1. Consumers get ready to pay at the pump for the infrastructure to export our natural gas and oil

to foreign countries. Big energy will pass the cost on to the consumers and create a shortage causing the price of gasoline and natural gas to go up.

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2. Pipelines have already been constructed from the Eagle Ford shale area

to Ingleside.

http://mysoutex.com/view/full_story/17278272/article-New-transportation-pipeline-slated-to-be-in-partial-production-by-end-of-2012?

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3. So much for the "energy independence" I hear bandied about.

Becoming a third world extraction site for supply to developed countries never really worked out for the "suppliers" yet.