Tuesday, August 12, 2025

EPD is using some of their 2025 and 2026 capex budget to expand their footprint in the Midland Basin region.

Happy Tuesday!

Did anyone happen to read The Houston Chronicle’s Fuel Fix Newsletter on August 11, 2025, they republished an article from Midland Reporter-Telegram titled, “Enterprise buys Oxy’s Midland Basin gas assets, plan new plant”?  In the article, it speaks on how a subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD) picked up natural gas gathering assets from a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum’s (Oxy) in the Midland Basin for $580 million cash only deal, and included in the deal they will be providing long-term natural gas gathering and processing services to Oxy.  In addition, Enterprise will be getting around 200 miles of natural gas gathering pipeline which moves unprocessed natural gas from production in the Midland Basin to a natural gas gathering facility.  In addition, they will be getting around 73,000 acres which extends into four counties in the Midland Basin.  We wish them luck acquiring speedy approvals for their purchase!          

In the same article, Enterprise published they will build another natural gas processing plant which they plan to name Athena in Midland County; it will be there ninth in the area.   The Athena facility in expected to be able to process up to 300 million cubic feet of natural gas a day and separate out around 40,000 barrels a day of natural gas liquids (NGL).  The plant is expected to be commissioned by end of 2026.  The purchase from Oxy and the plans to build the Athena facility fall in line with Enterprise’s capex goals for this year and next.  We wish them luck getting the new plant in service!  If you would like to read more of the article reprinted from Midland Reporter-Telegram on MSN, please click the link: Enterprise buys Oxy’s Midland Basin gas assets, plans new plant.

If you would like help in looking into how to transport your product efficiently, safely, and with less of a carbon footprint or just find out what is underneath your feet to help with your emission reduction goals, contact us via email in the Blog and check out our ESC website!

We hope you have a wonderful evening!

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