Western Midstream Partners, LP, together with its subsidiaries, acquires, owns, develops, and operates midstream assets. Western Midstream Holdings, LLC serves as the general partner of the company.
The company engages in the gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing, and transporting condensate, NGLs, and crude oil; and gathering and disposing of produced water. In its capacity as a natural-gas processor, the company also buys and sells...
Western Midstream Partners, LP, together with its subsidiaries, acquires, owns, develops, and operates midstream assets. Western Midstream Holdings, LLC serves as the general partner of the company.
The company engages in the gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing, and transporting condensate, NGLs, and crude oil; and gathering and disposing of produced water. In its capacity as a natural-gas processor, the company also buys and sells natural gas, NGLs, and condensate on behalf of itself and its customers under certain contracts.
The company's gathering systems transport raw, or untreated, natural gas from its customers' wellheads or production facilities to a central location for treating and processing. The company's crude-oil assets gather raw, high and low vapor-pressure oil at the well site to be processed at oil stabilization facilities before being delivered to crude-oil terminals, storage facilities, long-haul crude-oil pipelines, and refineries. In addition, the company's produced-water gathering and disposal systems provide the link between well sites or nearby collection points and disposal facilities that remove hydrocarbon products and other sediments from the produced water and re-inject the produced water utilizing permitted disposal wells in compliance with applicable regulations or sell the produced water to third parties to be treated and recycled.
Assets and Areas of Operation
These assets and investments are located in Texas, New Mexico, and the Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming).
The company's operations are organized into a single operating segment that engages in gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing, and transporting condensate, NGLs, and crude oil; and gathering and disposing of produced water.
Acquisitions and Divestitures
Marcellus Interest systems: During the second quarter of 2024, the company closed on the sale of its 33.75% interest in the Marcellus Interest systems.
Mont Belvieu JV, Whitethorn LLC, Panola, and Saddlehorn: During the first quarter of 2024, the company closed on the sale of the following equity investments to third parties: the 25.00% interest in Mont Belvieu JV, the 20.00% interest in Whitethorn LLC, the 15.00% interest in Panola, and the 20.00% interest in Saddlehorn.
Strategy
The company intends to grow certain of its systems organically over time by meeting its customers' midstream service needs that arise from drilling activity in its areas of operation. The company continually pursues economically attractive organic business development and expansion opportunities in existing or new areas of operation that allow it to leverage its infrastructure, operating expertise, and customer relationships, to meet new or increased demand of its services.
Properties
Gathering, Processing, Treating, and Disposal
Texas and New Mexico
West Texas and New Mexico
West Texas gathering, processing, and treating complex
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Occidental’s production represented 43% of the West Texas complex throughput, and the two largest third-party customers provided 28% of the throughput.
Supply: Supply of gas and NGLs for the complex comes from production from the Delaware Sands, Avalon Shale, Bone Spring, Wolfcamp, and Penn formations in the Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin.
Delivery points: Gas is dehydrated, compressed, and delivered to the Mi Vida plant and within the West Texas complex for processing, while lean gas is delivered into Enterprise GC, L.P.’s pipeline for ultimate delivery into Energy Transfer LP’s (ET) Oasis pipeline (the Oasis pipeline). Residue gas from the West Texas complex is delivered to the Red Bluff Express pipeline, Whitewater Midstream, LLC’s Agua Blanca pipeline, Oasis pipeline, Transwestern Pipeline Company LLC’s pipeline (Transwestern pipeline), and Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s interstate pipeline system. NGLs production is primarily delivered into the Sand Hills pipeline and Lone Star NGL LLC’s pipeline (Lone Star pipeline).
North Loving Plant: The company is constructing a new cryogenic processing plant in the North Loving area of its West Texas complex. The North Loving Plant will have a capacity of 250 MMcf/d and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2025. Upon completion, the West Texas complex will have a total processing capacity of 2,190 MMcf/d.
DBM Oil-Gathering System, Treating Facilities, and Storage
Customers: As of December 31, 2024, DBM oil system throughput was from Occidental and one third-party producer. For the year ended December 31, 2024, Occidental’s production represented 99% of the total DBM oil system throughput and is subject to the Texas Railroad Commission tariff.
Supply: The DBM oil system is supplied from production from the Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin.
Delivery points: Crude oil treated at the DBM oil system is delivered into Plains All American Pipeline.
DBM Produced-Water Disposal Systems
Customers: As of December 31, 2024, DBM water systems throughput was from Occidental and numerous third-party producers, with Occidental’s production representing 78% of the throughput.
Supply: Supply of produced water for the systems comes from crude-oil production from the Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin.
Disposal: The DBM water systems gather and dispose of produced water via subsurface injection or offload to third-party service providers. The systems’ injection wells are located in Loving, Reeves, and Ward Counties in Texas.
In January 2025, the company sanctioned the construction of a 42-mile, 30-inch pipeline with the capacity to transport over 800 MBbls/day of produced water to additional disposal facilities in eastern Loving County within the Delaware Basin, several regional produced-water gathering facilities and export terminals with total incremental capacity of approximately 280 MBbls/d, and nine incremental produced-water disposal facilities located in eastern Loving County with effective disposal capacity of approximately 220 MBbls/d. Construction is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2027.
Mi Vida Processing Plant
Customers: As of December 31, 2024, Mi Vida plant throughput was from Occidental and one third-party customer.
Supply and Delivery Points: The Mi Vida plant receives volumes from the West Texas complex and ET’s gathering system. Residue gas from the Mi Vida plant is delivered to the Oasis pipeline or Transwestern pipeline. NGLs production is delivered to the Lone Star pipeline.
During the fourth quarter of 2024, the company executed agreements to realign the commercial structure of Mi Vida, which will provide the company with 100 MMcf/d of dedicated natural-gas processing capacity in the Delaware Basin beginning in mid-2025.
South Texas
Brasada Gathering, Stabilization, Treating, and Processing Complex
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Brasada complex throughput was from two third-party customers.
Supply: Supply of gas and NGLs is sourced from throughput gathered by the Springfield system.
Delivery Points: The facility delivers residue gas to the Eagle Ford Midstream system operated by NET Midstream, LLC. Stabilized condensate is delivered to Plains All American Pipeline, and NGLs are delivered to the Enterprise-operated South Texas NGL Pipeline System.
Springfield Gathering System, Stabilization Facility, and Storage
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Springfield system throughput was from multiple third-party customers.
Supply: Supply of gas and oil is sourced from third-party production in the Eagle Ford Shale Play.
Delivery Points: The gas-gathering system has a delivery point to the company's Brasada complex, and other interruptible points, (the Raptor processing plant owned by Carnero G&P LLC and operated by Targa Resources Corp., and the Dos Hermanos plant owned and operated by ET). The oil-gathering system delivers oil to Plains All American Pipeline, Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s Double Eagle Pipeline, Hilcorp Energy Company’s Harvest Pipeline, and NuStar Energy L.P.’s Pipeline.
Rocky Mountains - Colorado and Utah
Colorado
DJ Basin Gathering, Treating, and Processing Complex
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Occidental’s production represented 54% of the DJ Basin complex throughput, and the two largest third-party customers provided 32% of the throughput.
Supply: The DJ Basin complex is supplied primarily by the Wattenberg field.
Delivery points: As of December 31, 2024, the DJ Basin complex had various delivery-point interconnections with DCP Midstream LP’s (DCP) gathering and processing system for gas not processed within the DJ Basin complex. The DJ Basin complex is connected to the Colorado Interstate Gas Company LLC’s pipeline (CIG pipeline), Tallgrass Energy’s Cheyenne Connector pipeline, and Xcel Energy’s residue pipelines for natural-gas residue takeaway and to Overland Pass Pipeline Company LLC’s pipeline, FRP’s pipeline, and DCP’s Wattenberg NGL pipeline for NGLs takeaway. In addition, the NGLs fractionators and associated truck-loading facility at the Platte Valley and Wattenberg plants provides access to local NGLs markets.
DJ Basin Oil-Gathering System, Stabilization Facility, and Storage
Customers: As of December 31, 2024, DJ Basin oil system throughput was from Occidental and one third-party producer. For the year ended December 31, 2024, Occidental’s production represented 99% of the total DJ Basin oil system throughput.
Supply: The DJ Basin oil system, which is supplied primarily by the Wattenberg field, gathers high-vapor-pressure crude oil and delivers it to the centralized oil stabilization facility (COSF). The COSF includes two 250,000 barrel crude-oil storage tanks.
Delivery Points: The COSF has market access to the White Cliffs pipeline, Saddlehorn pipeline, Tallgrass Energy’s Pony Express pipeline and rail-loading facilities in Tampa, Colorado, and local markets.
Utah
Chipeta Processing Complex
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Chipeta complex throughput was from numerous third-party customers, with the four largest customers providing 88% of the throughput.
Supply: Chipeta’s inlet is connected to Caerus Uinta LLC’s gathering system, the MountainWest Pipeline, LLC system (MountainWest Pipeline), and Three Rivers Gathering, LLC’s system, which is owned by MPLX LP (MPLX).
Delivery Points: The Chipeta plant delivers NGLs via the GNB NGL pipeline to Enterprise’s Mid-America Pipeline Company pipeline (MAPL pipeline), which provides transportation through Enterprise’s Seminole pipeline (Seminole pipeline) and TEP’s pipeline in West Texas, and ultimately to the NGLs fractionation and storage facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The Chipeta plant has residue gas delivery points through the CIG pipeline, MountainWest Pipeline, and Wyoming Interstate Company’s pipeline (WIC pipeline) that deliver residue gas to markets throughout the Rockies and Western United States.
Expansion Activity: In July 2024, additional compression installation was completed at the Chipeta complex, enabling the complex to receive up to 100 MMcf/d of incremental inlet gas via MountainWest Pipeline. The company is in the process of installing new interconnect facilities at the Chipeta complex inlet, which will accommodate up to 150 MMcf/d of incremental gas and associated liquids via Kinder Morgan’s newly constructed Altamont Green River Pipeline, which is expected to be in service mid-2025.
Rocky Mountains – Wyoming
Northeast Wyoming
Powder River Basin Gathering, Processing, and Treating Complex
The Powder River Basin complex includes the assets acquired with the closing of the Meritage acquisition in October 2023, in addition to its legacy Hilight system.
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, the three largest third-party customers provided 67% of the throughput and Occidental’s production represented 4% of the Powder River Basin complex throughput.
Supply: The Powder River Basin complex serves the gas-gathering needs of several conventional and unconventional producing fields in Converse, Campbell, Johnson, and Natrona Counties, Wyoming.
Delivery Points: The Hilight plant delivers residue gas to the company’s MIGC transmission line. Hilight is not connected to an active NGLs pipeline, resulting in all fractionated NGLs being sold locally through truck and rail loading facilities. The Steamboat and 50 Buttes gas-processing plants deliver natural gas to the Thunder Creek and Chalk Buttes delivery points owned by Wyoming Interstate Company (WIC), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The NGLs from the Steamboat and 50 Buttes gas-processing plants, as well as EOG’s Jewell gas-processing plant, are delivered via its Thunder Creek NGL pipeline to ONEOK, Inc.’s Well Draw delivery point.
Southwest Wyoming
Granger Gathering System
The Granger processing plant was shut down in December 2023. The gathering system continues to be operational, and gas gathered by the system is delivered to a third party for processing.
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Granger complex throughput was from numerous third-party customers, with the three largest customers providing 81% of the throughput.
Supply: The Granger complex is supplied by the Moxa Arch and the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields.
Delivery points: Residue gas from the Granger complex is delivered to a third party for processing and can then be delivered to the CIG pipeline; The Williams Companies, Inc.’s MountainWest Pipeline, Overthrust Pipeline, and Northwest Pipeline (NWPL); its OTTCO pipeline; and the company’s Mountain Gas Transportation LLC pipeline. The NGLs have market access to the MAPL pipeline, which terminates at Mont Belvieu, Texas, and other local markets.
Red Desert Gathering System
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Red Desert complex throughput was from numerous third-party customers, with the three largest customers providing 59% of the throughput.
Supply and Delivery Points: The Red Desert complex gathers and compresses natural gas produced from the eastern portion of the Greater Green River Basin and delivers to a third party for processing.
Rendezvous Gathering System
Customers: For the year ended December 31, 2024, Rendezvous system throughput primarily was from two shippers that have dedicated acreage to the system.
Supply and Delivery Points: The Rendezvous system provides high-pressure gathering service for gas from the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields and delivers to MPLX’s Blacks Fork gas-processing plant, which connects to the MountainWest Pipeline, NWPL, and the Kern River pipeline via the Rendezvous pipeline.
Transportation
Rocky Mountains – Colorado
White Cliffs Pipeline: The White Cliffs dual pipeline system had multiple committed shippers, including Occidental, as of December 31, 2024. Other parties may also ship on the White Cliffs pipeline at FERC-based rates. The pipeline provides crude-oil and NGLs takeaway capacity from Platteville, Colorado, to ET’s storage facility in Cushing, Oklahoma, which ultimately delivers to Gulf Coast and mid-continent refineries. It is supplied by production from the DJ Basin. At the point of origin, there is a storage facility adjacent to a truck-unloading facility.
Rocky Mountains – Utah
GNB NGL Pipeline: There were three primary shippers on the GNB NGL pipeline as of December 31, 2024. The GNB NGL pipeline provides capacity at the posted FERC-based rates and has the ability to receive NGLs from Chipeta’s gas-processing facility and MPLX’s Stagecoach/Iron Horse gas-processing complex. The GNB NGL pipeline delivers NGLs to the MAPL pipeline, which provides transportation through the Seminole pipeline and TEP’s pipeline, and ultimately to NGLs fractionation and storage facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
Rocky Mountains – Wyoming
MIGC Transportation System: For the year ended December 31, 2024, throughput on the MIGC system was from numerous third-party customers, with the three largest customers providing 83% of the system throughput. All parties on the MIGC system ship pursuant to a tariff on file with FERC. The system receives gas from the Hilight system, EOG’s Jewell plant, and from WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. MIGC volumes can be redelivered to the hub in Glenrock, Wyoming, which has access to interstate pipelines, including the CIG pipeline, Tallgrass Interstate Gas Transmission pipeline, and WIC pipeline. Volumes can also be delivered to Black Hills Corporation’s Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power and several industrial users.
OTTCO Transportation System: For the year ended December 31, 2024, throughput on the OTTCO transportation system was from three third-party shippers. Revenues on the system are generated from contracts that contain minimum-volume commitments and volumetric fees paid by shippers under firm and interruptible gas-transportation agreements. Supply points include the Granger complex, and ExxonMobil Corporation’s Shute Creek plant, which are supplied by the eastern portion of the Greater Green River Basin, the Moxa Arch, and the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields. Primary delivery points include two third-party industrial facilities.
Texas
Front Range Pipeline: FRP provides NGLs takeaway capacity from the DJ Basin in Northeast Colorado. FRP has receipt points at gas plants in Weld and Adams Counties, Colorado (including the DJ Basin complex) (see Rocky Mountains—Colorado and Utah within these Items 1 and 2). FRP connects to TEP near Skellytown, Texas. As of December 31, 2024, the pipeline had multiple committed shippers, including Occidental. FRP provides capacity to other shippers at the posted FERC tariff rate.
Texas Express Gathering: TEG consists of two NGLs gathering systems that provide plants in North Texas and the Texas panhandle with access to NGLs takeaway capacity on TEP. TEG had one committed shipper as of December 31, 2024.
Texas Express Pipeline: TEP delivers to Enterprise’s NGLs fractionation and storage facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas. TEP is supplied with NGLs from other pipelines or systems including FRP, the MAPL pipeline, and TEG. As of December 31, 2024, the pipeline had multiple committed shippers, including Occidental. TEP provides capacity to other shippers at the posted FERC tariff rates.
Red Bluff Express pipeline: As of December 31, 2024, the Red Bluff Express pipeline had multiple committed shippers, including Occidental. The pipeline also provides capacity to other shippers at the posted FERC-based rates. In December 2020, the company entered into a five-year transportation contract, which became effective on January 1, 2021, with a volume commitment on the Red Bluff Express pipeline. The pipeline is supplied by production from the company’s West Texas complex and other third-party plants. The Red Bluff Express pipeline transports natural gas from Reeves and Loving Counties, Texas, to the WAHA hub in Pecos County, Texas.
Regulation of Operations
Many of the pipelines the company uses to gather and transport oil, natural gas, and NGLs are subject to regulation by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), an agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
The operations of the company’s MIGC pipeline and the West Texas complex residue lines (exiting its Ramsey and Ranch Westex processing plants) are subject to regulation by FERC under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 (the NGA).
The company’s GNB NGL and Thunder Creek NGL pipelines provide interstate service as a FERC-regulated common carrier under the Interstate Commerce Act, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and related rules and orders. he company also owns interests in FRP, TEP, Saddlehorn, Panola, and White Cliffs, each of which provides interstate services as a FERC-regulated common carrier under the same statues and regulations.
The company owns an interest in Red Bluff Express, which offers natural-gas transportation services under Section 311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.
Environmental Matters and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations
The company's business operations are subject to numerous federal, regional, state, tribal, and local environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations. The more significant of these existing environmental laws and regulations include the following legal standards that exist in the United States, as amended from time to time:
The Clean Air Act, which restricts the emission of air pollutants from many sources and imposes various pre-construction, operational, monitoring, and reporting requirements for new, reconstructed, modified, and existing sources, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) has relied on as the authority for adopting climate-change regulatory initiatives relating to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions;
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, which regulates discharges of pollutants from facilities to state and federal waters and establishes the extent to which waterways are subject to federal jurisdiction and rulemaking as protected waters of the United States;
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which subjects, among others, owners and operators of onshore facilities and pipelines to liability for removal costs and damages arising from an oil spill in waters of the United States;
Regulations imposed by the Bureau of Land Management (the BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, agencies under the authority of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which govern and restrict aspects of oil and natural-gas operations on federal and Native American lands, including the imposition of liabilities for pollution damages and pollution clean-up costs resulting from such operations;
Regulations imposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) that govern and restrict activities that may affect federally regulated waters and wetlands;
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, which imposes liability on generators, transporters, and arrangers of hazardous substances at sites where hazardous substance releases have occurred or are threatening to occur;
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which governs the generation, treatment, storage, transport, and disposal of solid wastes, including hazardous wastes;
The Safe Drinking Water Act, which regulates the quality of the nation's public drinking water through adoption of drinking-water standards and control over the injection of waste fluids into non-producing geologic formations that may adversely affect drinking water sources;
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which requires facilities to implement a safety-hazard communication program and disseminate information to employees, local emergency planning committees, and response departments on toxic chemical uses and inventories;
The Occupational Safety and Health Act, which establishes workplace standards for the protection of the health and safety of employees, including the implementation of hazard communications programs designed to inform employees about hazardous substances in the workplace, potentially harmful effects of these substances, and appropriate control measures;
The Endangered Species Act, which restricts activities that may affect federally identified endangered and threatened species or their habitats through the implementation of operating restrictions or a temporary, seasonal, or permanent ban in affected areas, and similar protections for migratory birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act;
The National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies to evaluate major agency actions having the potential to impact the environment and that may require the preparation of environmental assessments and more detailed environmental impact statements that may be made available for public review and comment; and
The U.S. Department of Transportation regulations, which relate to advancing the safe transportation of hazardous materials, pipeline safety, and emergency response preparedness.
History
The company was founded in 2007. The company was incorporated in 2007. The company was formerly known as Western Gas Equity Partners, LP and changed its name to Western Midstream Partners, LP in 2019.
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