When four young oil and gas bucks launched a small midstream startup in 2014, all eight eyeballs were focused on setting up camp in the Permian Delaware. To say a lot has changed since then, especially in the last five years, would be a gross understatement when describing Fort Worth-based Brazos Midstream. ...

Less than a month ago, Dallas-based San Mateo Midstream, a joint venture between Matador Resources (51%) and Five Point Infrastructure (49%), inked a $752 million deal to make Cardinal Midstream Partners its own. A slick move indeed for Matador, which happens to be the anchor customer of San Mateo and—at the time—also happened to have other Delaware plans in store....

It’s already a beautiful week in the neighborhood with news of fresh midstream acquisitions and an announced plan to build a pipeline dedicated to flowing fuel to power rocket ships. ...

Some small-town Texas boys working as farmhands on family land have dreams of something bigger or altogether different for their future. Mike Howard was one of those back in his childhood....