Our Henderson natural gas processing plant, located in Henderson, Texas, is part of our East Texas System. Both a cryogenic processing plant and a propane refrigeration plant are components of the facility.

Natural Gas Business

Other Natural Gas Businesses

The Partnership's natural gas business also includes trucking, rail and liquids marketing operations through our subsidiary Dufour Petroleum that we use to enhance the value of NGLs produced at our processing plants. Dufour's operations include the transportation of NGLs, crude oil and other products from wellheads and treating, processing and fractionation facilities to wholesale customers, such as distributors, refiners and chemical facilities. Dufour operates a fleet of 210 trucks, 351 trailers and 110 railcars.

The Partnership's natural gas marketing business, Enbridge Marketing, provides natural gas supply, transportation, balancing, storage and sales services to producers and wholesale customers. Our marketing business's primary objectives are to maximize the value of the natural gas purchased by our gathering systems and the throughput on our gathering and intrastate wholesale customer pipelines and to mitigate financial risk. Due to increased volumes from our gathering assets, our marketing business leases third-party pipeline capacity downstream from our natural gas assets under firm transportation contracts for various lengths and at rates that allow our marketing business to diversify its customer base by expanding its service territory. This transportation capacity also provides assurance that our natural gas will not be shut in, which can result from capacity constraints on downstream pipelines.