Meetings set for Port Arthur, Bridge City regarding proposed pipeline
Published 12:24 am Wednesday, June 29, 2022
- An overview map of the Blue Marlin Offshore Port project. The red line represents proposed onshore pipeline from Nederland to Cameron Parish, and the yellow line represents existing pipeline to be converted to oil service. (Image via Maritime Administration)
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Two upcoming community meetings — one in Port Arthur and one in Bridge City — have been scheduled for July regarding a planned 37-mile long pipeline from Nederland to the Gulf off the coast of Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
The Save Sabine Lake coalition will meet at 7 p.m. July 19 at Robert A. “Bob” Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur, and again at 7 p.m. July 21 at the Bridge City Senior Citizen Hall, 103 Parkside Drive.
According to the group, the meetings serve to educate Southeast Texans about the Blue Marlin Pipeline, “and what landowners along the pipeline route can do to protect their property.”
In late 2020, Blue Marlin Offshore Port LLC applied to the Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard to construct the deepwater port 99 miles off the coast of Cameron Parish.
Blue Marlin’s parent company, Energy Transfer, operates the Nederland terminal.
The proposed crude oil pipeline would connect the Nederland terminal to the Cameron Parish port while also crossing through parts of Orange County.
For more information on the upcoming meetings, call 409-241-3881 or email patricia@pipelinecenter.org.
