After withdrawing a permit application to build a new plant that would convert natural gas to chemicals needed to make plastics, pipeline company Energy Transfer has applied to expand an adjacent terminal used to store and load shipments of oil and natural gas liquids.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is accepting comments until June 20 on an application by Energy Transfer to expand its Nederland Terminal in Jefferson County, located on the Neches River between Beaumont and Port Arthur. The permit would allow impacts to an additional 307 acres of wetlands to build new docks, reconfigure existing docks, and build new parking lots and access roads, among other changes.

The terminal receives, stores, and distributes crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other fuels and chemical products. The company calls it the “largest, singularly owned above-ground crude oil storage facility in the U.S. and the second largest natural gas liquids export facility in the world.”

The terminal is located next to land where Energy Transfer had planned a huge new ethane “cracker” that would have turned components of natural gas into ethylene and propylene, used as raw ingredients of plastics. The company withdrew its application to build the facility on May 6.