There’s nothing better than winding down the week with a success story still in the making, one that started small like they often do and plump with big ideas. Reese Energy Consulting today is following one of those stories with the latest news from Fort Worth-based Brazos Midstream. What began in 2015 with four guys in a truck on the hunt for a Permian deal and backing from PE firm Old Ironsides Energy, has launched this company and their big ideas into the Permian’s largest, privately held midstream company.

Those big ideas initially included building grander gathering and processing systems in the Delaware, starting with the acquisition of a crude oil gathering system Brazos would later describe as “a perfect midstream starter kit.” Two years later, the company acquired Callon Petroleum’s natural gas gathering system in the Delaware. By 2021, Brazos had become one of the sub-basin’s largest privately-owned natural gas and crude oil midstreamers, operating 800 miles of oil and gas gathering pipe, a gas processing complex with 460 MMCF capacity, and 75 MBbls of crude storage.

Then a fortuitous opportunity happened along in the form of Diamondback’s Rattler Midstream and a “Hello, lover” with assets for sale in the Midland. Since then, Brazos has plied its craft building grander gathering and processing systems, now reporting completion on a new gas 200 MMCFD gas plant in the Midland’s Martin County set for service in October. Construction is near completion on 175 miles of gas gathering pipe that will give Brazos 260 miles of gathering pipeline and 10 compressor stations in its Midland system. The company also plans to build a second processing plant slated for startup late next year which will expand its Midland capacity to 500 MMCFD.