Brazos to Grow Midland Gas Processing Capacity to 1.1 Bcfd

Brazos Midstream said Monday it plans to build a cryogenic natural gas processing plant with a capacity of 300 million cubic feet a day (MMcfd) in Glasscock County, Texas.

Expected to begin operation in the summer next year, Cassidy 2 will raise the Fort Worth-based midstream gas company's nameplate processing capacity in the Midland Basin to about 1.1 billion cfd, it said in a press release.

"The expansion is supported by long-term acreage dedications covering approximately 575,000 acres from top-tier private and publicly-traded producer customers currently in full-scale development", Brazos said.

"With the recent addition of a new long-term contract with a supermajor, Brazos's system volumes currently exceed 700 MMcfd", it added, without naming the customer.

Chief commercial officer Stephen Luskey said, "Our producer customers are accelerating development in deeper formations like the Barnett, with higher gas-to-oil ratios, dramatically increasing natural gas production across the Brazos system. This growth coupled with our continued commercial success unlocks the next phase of our buildout".

Earlier this year Brazos said it had started construction for Cassidy I, also with a 300-MMcfd capacity, at the same site. It expects to complete this project by yearend.

"In anticipation of additional processing demand driven by producer customers' drilling programs, Brazos has secured grid power and other related infrastructure to execute on timely and capital-efficient expansion opportunities at the Cassidy processing complex", Brazos said February 18.

Brazos also announced at the time it had completed its biggest cryogenic plant, the 300-MMcfd Sundance II in Martin County, Texas. Sundance I, with a capacity of 200 MMcfd, went online mid-2024.

"Brazos is also extending its gathering system with over 70 miles of high-pressure 20-inch and 24-in natural gas gathering pipeline currently under construction, providing incremental capacity to constrained areas in Reagan, Glasscock, Midland and Upton counties", the February announcement added.

"Upon completion in mid-2026, Brazos' Midland footprint will include approximately 525 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines and 16 compressor stations".

In June Brazos completed the sale of its footprint in the Delaware Basin to Western Midstream Partners LP for around $1.6 billion.

The offloaded assets consisted of 910 miles of gas, crude oil and produced water gathering pipelines; 460 MMcfd of gas processing capacity; over 125,000 horsepower of compression; and approximately 75,000 barrels of crude oil storage, according to Brazos.

"The platform served more than 25 producer customers across Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Ward and Winkler counties and was supported by more than 540,000 dedicated acres under long-term agreements", Brazos says on its website.

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