Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is a Houston-based master limited partnership that provides midstream energy services across North America. The company owns and operates an extensive network of pipelines, storage facilities, processing plants and export terminals that transport and handle natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil and refined and petrochemical products. Its core activities include gathering and transportation, fractionation of NGLs, natural gas processing, crude oil and condensate pipelines, and marine and terminal services that enable domestic distribution and exports.
Enterprise serves a diverse set of customers including producers, refiners, petrochemical companies, marketers and end users. Its asset footprint is concentrated in the United States with a particularly large presence along the Gulf Coast and connections to major hydrocarbon-producing basins and coastal export points. The company’s operations include long-haul interstate and intrastate pipelines, regional gathering systems, underground and aboveground storage facilities, fractionation complexes and marine terminals that support both domestic markets and overseas shipments.
Structured as an MLP with a Houston-based management team and a general partner overseeing operations, Enterprise Products has grown through a mix of organic project development and strategic acquisitions. The partnership emphasizes contract structures and fee-based services that seek to provide stable, fee-for-service cash flow and to support customers’ midstream needs. Enterprise highlights operational reliability, regulatory compliance and safety as central to its business model while continuing to develop infrastructure that links production areas to processing, refining and export markets.