Thursday, December 21, 2017

Active rigs:

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RBN Energy: EnLink builds out STACK, Permian infrastructure to offset Barnett declines.

EnLink Midstream Partners LP, seeking to offset declining natural gas production in the Barnett Shale — where the master limited partnership (MLP) has extensive midstream holdings — has been implementing a strategic plan focused on acquisitions and expansions in the burgeoning STACK play in central Oklahoma and in the Permian’s Midland and Delaware basins in West Texas. The level of investment the plan requires has prevented increases in the MLP’s distributions to unit holders for nine consecutive quarters, which in turn has left EnLink’s share price languishing at about half of its 2014 high. The MLP has reported promising signs of growth in Oklahoma and the Permian as well as increased utilization of its southern Louisiana infrastructure, which it says could lead to a higher distribution to unit holders in 2018.

• Texas: EnLink has natural gas gathering pipelines and a transmission pipeline, natural gas processing facilities, NGL fractionators and other midstream infrastructure assets serving the Barnett Shale in North Texas and the Permian’s Midland and Delaware basins in West Texas.
• Oklahoma: The MLP has natural gas gathering and processing systems primarily serving the STACK play.
• Louisiana: EnLink has natural gas gathering, processing, and transmission assets. It also owns liquids transportation pipelines, storage facilities and fractionation units.
• Crude and Condensate: The company owns crude oil and condensate pipelines, storage assets, a trucking transportation fleet, condensate stabilization units and natural gas compression stations. These assets are located in Louisiana, the Ohio River Valley, the Permian Basin, and along Texas’s Gulf Coast.