Permian natural gas producers and three interstate pipeline operators are starting to wipe the sweat and feel the love with the startup of the Matterhorn Express. The 490-mile, 2.5 BCFD capacity pipeline, is now ready-set-go to transport orphan gas supplies from the Waha Hub to the Katy area outside of Houston, and on to Gulf Coast markets and LNG export plants....

It goes without saying, there’s no fast, easy, or cheap way to get a new LNG export plant off the ground. These are humongous, crazy-expensive projects to send volumes of prolific U.S. natural gas to world destinations hungry for them, and they require a whole lotta tap-dancing to ever see the light of day....