It was already a tough road back in 2018 for Dallas-based Navigator Energy Services and project partner Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream when they launched, then extended, an open season to attract transportation commitments for their proposed Voyager pipeline. Call it bad timing. The 500-mile Voyager, which would have originated deliveries of light crude oil and condensate from Cushing to Magellan’s Houston terminal, was finally mothballed in 2021.

But things turn around as they always do and the time couldn’t be better now for Navigator to expand its crude oil midstream business with a whip-smart decision to add natural gas infrastructure to its portfolio.

Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest news from Navigator Energy Services, which has brought on big dog James Yardley fresh from TC Energy to lead the company’s leap into natural gas opportunities in power generation and LNG exports. Navigator currently operates in the Anadarko Basin in Texas, Okla., and Kan. According to Hart Energy, the company’s Glass Mountain Pipeline System spans more than 700 miles of crude pipe with 4.4 MMbbl of storage and 400 MBBD of market deliverability.

Hello, natural gas.