Brazos Midstream Holdings III LLC, a subsidiary of Brazos Midstream Holdings LLC, has completed construction of a natural gas processing facility and is nearing completion of associated new gas gathering infrastructure as part of its operations expansion in the Midland Basin of the Permian region.
On August 15, Brazos Midstream achieved mechanical completion of the installation of its new 200 MMcfd Sundance I cryogenic gas processing plant in Martin County, Texas, which is scheduled to begin commercial operations in October 2024, the company said.
In addition, the operator confirmed that it has begun the final phase of construction on an approximately 175-mile-long, 16- to 24-inch-thick high-pressure gas gathering pipeline and associated midstream infrastructure spanning the heart of the Texas Midland Basin and covering Ector, Howard, Martin, Midland, Glasscock and Reagan counties.
Without providing a specific timeframe for completion, Brazos Midstream said that once completed and operational, this latest infrastructure will provide the company with approximately 260 miles of gas gathering pipelines and 10 compressor stations in its Midland Basin system.
In addition to announcing the construction milestones, the operator also revealed plans to build a second cryogenic gas plant in the region, which will have a processing capacity of 300 MMcfd and will be operational by the end of 2025. This will increase Brazos Midstream’s total processing capacity in the Midland Basin to 500 MMcfd to meet customers’ forecasted production growth.
Brazos Midstream was founded in 2014 and acquired its first gas gathering infrastructure in Martin County in 2021. According to the operator’s website, the company began construction of the Sundance I plant and associated midstream infrastructure in the Midland Basin in 2023.
Brazos Midstream’s current and planned assets in the Midland Basin – which include Ector, Howard, Martin, Midland, Glasscock and Reagan counties, as well as existing gathering infrastructure in Borden County, Texas – are supported by more than 125,000 acres of long-term acreage allocations being developed by its upstream producer customers, the website said.
Brazos Midstream Overview
The Permian infrastructure of the Fort Worth-based Brazos Midstream companies collectively represents the largest private midstream platform in the Permian Basin and includes a total of approximately 1,200 miles of high-pressure pipelines gathering natural gas, NGLs and crude oil through the Delaware and Midland Basins.
In the southern Delaware Basin, Brazos Midstream Holdings II LLC, with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners as majority investor, owns the multi-train 460 million kilowatt-hour Comanche natural gas processing complex in Reeves County, Texas (OGJ Online, December 17, 2020).
Other Delaware Basin assets include approximately 900 miles of natural gas, NGL and crude oil pipelines and 75,000 barrels of crude oil storage serving production from approximately 540,000 dedicated acres and over 25 upstream producer customers.
Brazos Midstream has a combined Permian Basin gas processing capacity of 660 million cubic feet per day – including the recently completed Comanche and Sundance operations. The company aims to expand its Permian Basin processing capacity to approximately 1 trillion cubic feet per day by 2025 with the newly proposed second gas plant in the midstream basin.
