A half dozen large midstream companies provide the full gamut of “wellhead-to-water” services for Permian-sourced natural gas and/or NGLs, and a couple of those offer the same for crude oil as well. For Enbridge and Plains All American, the clear focus has been on crude — pipelines, storage and marine terminals — though Enbridge has been rapidly expanding its portfolio of Permian-to-Gulf gas assets too. In today’s RBN blog, we look at what Enbridge and Plains have and what they are planning.
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This is the fourth and final blog in our series on the handful of companies that offer soup-to-nuts midstream services and thereby reap the benefits of operating with extraordinary efficiency, collecting fees from shippers each step of the way and feeding pipelines, fractionators, storage and export terminals along the network’s value chain. In Part 1, we detailed the assets and plans of Enterprise Products Partners and Energy Transfer; Part 2 discussed what Targa Resources and Phillips 66 are up to; and Part 3 focused on ONEOK and MPLX.
In today’s blog, we turn our attention to Enbridge and Plains All American, both of which have extensive crude-oil-focused infrastructure between the Permian and the Gulf Coast — and, as we noted earlier, Enbridge has been expanding into natural gas infrastructure. We’ll start with the crude oil side of Enbridge, the core of which involves the company’s 30% ownership interest in the 670-Mb/d Cactus II Pipeline (light-orange line in Figure 1) from West Texas to Ingleside, TX; its 68.5% stake in the 900-Mb/d Gray Oak Pipeline (dark-orange line) from West Texas to Ingleside and Freeport; and its fully owned Enbridge Ingleside Energy Center (EIEC; red tank icon), the U.S.’s largest crude oil export facility. Enbridge also owns the 350-Mbbl Taft Terminal (just inland from Ingleside; purple tank icon) and the 300-Mb/d Viola Pipeline (not shown), which runs from the Corpus Christi terminus of Plains and Enterprise’s 600-Mb/d Eagle Ford JV Pipeline to Taft and from Taft to EIEC.
Figure 1. Enbridge’s Permian-to-Gulf Assets. Source: RBN
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About the song
“Don’t Stop” was written by Christine McVie and appears as the fourth cut on side one of Fleetwood Mac’s 11th studio album, Rumours. The song was written about staying strong and positive after McVie’s separation from husband and Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie. It was released as a single in March 1977 and went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Fleetwood Mac performed “Don't Stop” at President Bill Clinton's inaugural ball in 1993. Clinton had used the song extensively during his election campaign. Personnel on the record were: Christine McVie (piano, lead vocals), Lindsey Buckingham (guitar, lead vocals), Stevie Nicks (tambourine, backing vocals), Mick Fleetwood (drums) and John McVie (bass).
Rumours was recorded during 1976 at The Record Plant in Sausalito, CA, and Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles. It was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. The LP was released in February 1977 and went to #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Four Top 10 singles were released from the album. It won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. Rumours has been certified 2x Diamond (20 million in sales) by the Recording Industry Association of America. It has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Fleetwood Mc has released 18 studio albums, 10 live albums, 23 compilation albums, one EP, and 62 singles. The band has won four American Music Awards, two Brit Awards, three Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. It last toured on the band’s An Evening with Fleetwood Mac tour, which began in October 2018 and ended in November 2019. The tour featured long-time Fleetwood Mac members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks, joined by Neil Finn (Crowded House) and Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers). Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwin died in June 2018 at the age of 68. Former guitarist Peter Green died in July 2020 at 73. Singer, keyboardist, songwriter Christine McVie died in November 2022 at 79. In an interview with Mojo magazine in September 2024, Mick Fleetwood said that he was open to re-forming the band.
