Keep This Party Going - The Expansion of Permian Gas Infrastructure Is Far From Over

RBN Energy Blogcast

The build-out of natural gas processing plants in the Permian continues unabated. In just the past few days, four of the largest midstream players in the U.S.’s premier hydrocarbon production area have unveiled plans for a combined 1.3 Bcf/d of new processing capacity, most of it in the gassier Delaware Basin portion of the crude-oil-focused play. And that’s on top of the 11.7 Bcf/d of processing that’s already been added in the Permian over the past four-and-a-half years — and the 2.6 Bcf/d of soon-to-be-finished projects announced previously. That’s quite a run, and still more processing plants may be in the cards — if midstreamers build more takeaway-pipeline capacity. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss recent processing-plant and pipeline developments in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.