Executive Q&A Viewpoint

In late 2013, MarkWest Energy Partners LP began operations at its second cryogenic processing complex in Ohio’s Utica shale play. The Seneca plant will process up to 600 million cubic feet per day (MMcfd) of natural gas by the middle of 2014. The new complex is the company’s seventh, located in the rich gas areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Going forward, the company has 22 major processing and fractionation facilities under construction to serve producers in the northeastern and southwestern US. Gas Processing talks with Randy Nickerson, executive vice president and chief commercial officer for MarkWest, about taking the lead in the massive buildout of gas processing facilitie