Enterprise Products Says US Set to Deny Its China Ethane Export License

A gas processing facility operated by Enterprise Products Partners LP in Yscloskey, Louisiana.

Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg

Enterprise Products Partners LP received a notice saying the US intends to deny licenses for three proposed cargoes of ethane heading to China as the Trump administration doubles down on security for exports to the country.

The Houston-based midstream energy company has up to 20 days to issue a rebuttal to the notice from the Bureau of Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce, Enterprise said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Wednesday. The cargoes contain about 2.2 million barrels of ethane.