Mont Belvieu

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In the early morning hours of August 26th, 2017, a 44-year-old man named Steve McDowell frantically rode his bike through the rain down a flooded road in Mont Bellevue, which is a suburb of Houston, Texas.

Steve was racing to get home as fast as he could because he was trying to outrun a huge hurricane.

Now, Steve had known this hurricane was coming, it had been all over the news, but he didn't think it was supposed to get this bad until later in the day, so he thought he'd have time to run a quick errand before sheltering at home.

Yes, thank you so much.

I had, uh, moved to Mount Bellevue, Texas, over there east, close to where you're originally from, about 15, 16 years ago, from Panama City, so small.

I was really concerned this weekend.

I was reading some things on Facebook pages like Moms of Mount Bellevue.

Well, I go in, been political my entire life from, from an uncle that was in the House of Representatives of Florida.

We were all raised as Democrats, but we were conservatives.

ways.

Meet Brian Winningham, city manager of Mont Belvieu, Texas.

After 28 years in the U.S. Army and a career in city administration, Brian is now helping guide a rapidly growing community at the center of world-class industry while working to preserve the hometown residents.

Mont Belvieu is situated

on U.S. largest geological salt dome.

We don't have all the big storage tanks.

And one of those things that they can see is that people really love to live in Mount Bellevue.

And that's why we have the campaign Love MBTX.

Don't take my game

... at Eagle Stadium at Mont Belvieu, Texas.

No, we're good.

[laughs]

Now, it is worth noting that this audit was called for by the governor back in August, who instructed Comptroller Dunha Fines to select four school districts, which he's now done, to do an audit into their spending, how they're looking at money, ahead of the next legislative session.

And so, just now this week, we have those four school districts and I think the findings which should be out by the end of the year, uh should be pretty interesting you know it's worth noting that uh none of these schools were picked uh at random you know these weren't randomly selected uh these were selected by the comptroller uh some of them have have made news like actually all of them to some extent have made news um for uh potential mismanagement uh be it you know the obvious examples like austin isd and el paso isd or even places like Barbers Hill, which is Mont Bellevue, so just east of Houston, a school district that has come under fire for some questions around the financials around its Barbers Hill School Foundation.

They were grilled by lawmakers, I think, back in August over that.

And now they're going to be finding themselves under the microscope of Comptroller Don Huffines.

Net, the Seminole switch and the Bahia startup added four hundred fifty thousand barrels per day of new takeaway capacity.

Bahia moves NGLs from the Midland and Delaware Basins to Mont Belvieu, where they can enter Enterprise's Gulf Coast Fractionation system, reducing the need for Seminole to remain in NGL service.

In Q3 2024, Targa Resources four hundred thousand barrels per day Daytona Pipeline entered service, linking the Permian Basin to the company's Grand Prix NGL system, which carries Y-grade onto Mont Belvieu.

Grand Prix also reaches into parts of Oklahoma, including the scoop stack, but this expansion focused on the pipeline leg that receives Y-grade from the Permian.

During 2025, ONEOK continued phased expansions of its West Texas NGL system, increasing its capacity from roughly five hundred fifteen thousand barrels per day to seven hundred forty thousand barrels per day by adding pump stations.

Phillips sixty-six completed an initial expansion to two hundred twenty-five thousand barrels per day and brought a second phase online in twenty twenty-six, boosting total throughput to three hundred fifty thousand barrels per day.

The acquisition built on Phillips sixty-six's twenty twenty-three expansion into the upstream end of the NGL value chain through its acquisition of DCP Midstream, whose assets include gas gathering and processing operations and interests in major NGL takeaway systems.

Among them is the Sandhills Pipeline, which transports Permian and Eagle Ford NGLs to fractionation and market centers at Sweeny and Mont Belvieu.

Douglas Elliman, proudly leading you home to Houston.

Well, Dr. Callender, Memorial Hermann has been pushing farther into fast-growing communities such as Mount Bellevue, Waller.

How do you decide when a market outside of Houston has reached the point where Memorial Hermann needs to be there?

Yeah, you know, we have a pretty detailed process for evaluating population demand for clinical and health services.

I'll tell you more about it as time goes on.

We're going to run straight out to the phones now and head to Mount Bellevue to talk with Liz.

Hello, Liz.

Welcome to Garden Life.