Catalyst Midstream Partners LLC, a joint venture of Howard Midstream Energy Partners LLC and WPX Energy Inc., is seeking long-term shipper contracts for a new crude oil gathering system serving the Delaware Basin.
The binding open season is being carried out by a subsidiary of the joint venture. The gathering system consists of about 50 miles of crude oil gathering and transportation pipelines with a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day, with a 50,000-bbl terminal in Loving County, Texas.
The system, which would stretch across Eddy County, N.M., and Reeves and Loving counties in Texas, is expected to start full operations by the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a Dec. 8 news release.
The open season is expected to close Jan. 8, 2018.
Howard Midstream Energy Partners, doing business as Howard Energy Partners, owns and operates natural gas gathering, transportation, NGL processing, liquid storage terminals and other midstream assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. WPX's operations are focused in the Delaware, Williston and San Juan basins. Catalyst Midstream is supported by long-term contracts with WPX that include an area of mutual interest of over 600 square miles, with 50,000 net acres dedicated by WPX.
