The Haven City Council this week approved industrial zoning for the establishment of the Tenawa Gas Processing facility to be located adjacent to the existing Panhandle Eastern booster station plant just southwest of Haven. This new facility will extract liquid components from the raw natural gas received from the Panhandle Eastern’s interstate pipeline.
“This unique processing facility takes advantage of the outstanding resource of natural gas available at the Haven Panhandle Eastern facility and introduces a value added component to this resource. The job creation and capital investment will benefit not only the immediate area along the K-96 corridor but will bring the opportunity for future development in the future,” stated Harland Priddle, Executive Director, K-96 Corridor Development Association.
The Tenawa Gas Processing facility will employ 12-15 and consist of an office/administration facility, control room, and state of the art extraction facilities consisting of tower complexes, turbines, generators and other equipment. The facility will occupy approximately 7 acres of the new industrially zoned site. Construction is scheduled to begin in early spring with a commissioning date scheduled for December 2014.
“This project is a great example of the leverage that regional partnerships can offer to economic development and job creation in Reno County,” said Jason Ball, President of the Hutchinson/Reno County Chamber of Commerce. “This project involved numerous government organizations at city and county levels, as well as the K-96 Corridor Development Association and the City of Haven Economic Development Program. When you get a team of people working together like this, good things happen,”
The project engineer, Greg Ameringer, President of Next Generation Processing, LLC, is the project engineer for the facility and is tentatively scheduled to make a presentation to the Reno County Commission at 9:00 a-m, on March 18.