NJ Considers Permits to Expand LPG Storage Caverns in Gibbstown

Three years ago, in May 2022, MDN brought you the surprising news that ethane, propane, and butane (NGLs) were being exported from a facility in Gibbstown, NJ, located along the Delaware River, at a former DuPont dynamite factory site (see Former NJ DuPont Dynamite Factory Near Philly Exporting NGLs). It is the same site that tried to build a new dock to load LNG for export, a project which has (so far) failed. Now comes word that the owner, Delaware River Partners (a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy), is close to receiving a permit from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection that would allow the company to build two giant underground caverns to store propane and butane at the site.

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