Houston-based Crestwood Equity Partners last year made two strategic moves that saw the company exit its gathering and processing operations in the Marcellus and muscle up its midstream presence in the Permian’s Delaware and the Bakken. Both have paid off handsomely. ...

One could describe Dallas-based Energy Transfer as a Swiss Army Knife of midstream services, and they wouldn’t be wrong. With 120,000 miles of pipeline systems and operations that span 41 states, ET is the largest of the nation’s energy infrastructure machines with tentacles in crude oil, refined products, natural gas, and NGLs. ...