Enterprise Products Partners has announced plans to expand its Permian Basin natural gas processing capacity with construction of a new plant in the Delaware Basin that will ultimately bring the company’s total net natural gas processing capacity to more than 11.6 Bcf/d. The Mentone West 2 plant (red star on the left of the map below), with capacity to process up to 300 MMcf/d of natural gas and extract more than 40,000 b/d of NGLs, is slated to come online in the second half of 2026.
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Don't Stop - Top-Tier Midstreamers Double Down on Expanding Permian-to-Gulf Infrastructure
In their first earnings calls of 2025, the handful of large midstream companies that provide the gamut of “wellhead-to-water” services in Texas laid out plans for yet another round of projects — everything from gas processing plants and takeaway pipelines to fractionators and export terminal expansions. At the same time, many of these same midstreamers expressed a degree of caution about overbuilding. They sought to reassure Wall Street that they were only approving plans underpinned by strong commercial support. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the latest capital spending plans of this select, upper tier of midstream service providers.
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A Horse With (New) Name - Enterprise To Buy Piñon Midstream and Its Dark Horse Sour-Gas System
Enterprise Products Partners, already a leading provider of “well-to-water” or “well-to-market” midstream services out of the Permian, recently announced a deal to acquire private-equity-backed Piñon Midstream for $950 million in cash. But this isn’t just another bolt-on. Over the past few years, Piñon has been building out its one-of-a-kind Dark Horse system, which gathers and treats “sour” associated gas in a highly prolific, crude-oil-saturated part of the northern Delaware Basin and permanently sequesters the resulting hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground. In today’s RBN blog, we’ll discuss the impending Enterprise/Piñon acquisition, what Dark Horse does and how it gives Enterprise access to what may be the next hot production area in the Permian.
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Get Ready - Enterprise's Multifaceted Plan for Dealing With the Coming Deluge of Permian NGLs
Crude-oil-focused production growth in the Permian is generating increasing volumes of associated gas that need to be processed and mixed NGLs that need to be piped to Mont Belvieu, fractionated and exported. All that suggests the need for still more infrastructure — processing plants, NGL pipelines, fractionators and export facilities — and Enterprise Products Partners, a top-tier NGL midstreamer, recently laid out a multibillion-dollar plan to help Permian producers keep pace. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the new set of projects Enterprise has in the works.
