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A Houston-based midstreamer is looking to squeeze in another oil export project on the Texas coast between the massive Houston and Corpus Christi ports that would move Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin supply overseas.

Max Midstream announced the ambitious plan designed around the Seahawk Pipeline and Terminal in Port Comfort in Calhoun County. The system, purchased from Oaktree Capital, terminates under the purview of the Calhoun Port Authority (CPA). 

Point Comfort, with around 750 residents, is on the east side of Lavaca Bay in the Victoria metropolitan area, about 92 miles north of Corpus, the country’s leading oil export destination, and 145 miles south of the massive Houston Ship Channel. 

The CPA is served by the Matagorda Ship Channel and the Gulf Intracoastal...