CHARLESTON, W.Va. — MarkWest, a natural gas company with operations in several states, is planning to build a trucking facility for natural gas liquids near Clendenin.
The company filed for a building permit for the proposed project with Kanawha County late last week.
According to the permit application, the loading facility will cost $2 million, and will be constructed just east of Clendenin, near the existing Cobb compressor station.
Officials with Marathon Petroleum — which took over MarkWest in a $15 billion deal last year — said the new truck-loading facility will help the company move natural gas liquids, such as ethane, propane and butane, to the Siloam fractionation plant that is just north of Ashland, Kentucky…