Piñon Midstream LLC is undertaking another expansion project to increase the capacity of its Lea County, NM, sour natural gas facility, and may be looking to add interconnects on its natural gas processing delivery pipeline. 

Piñon is increasing the treating capacity of its Dark Horse Facility, which treats and sequesters sour gas (H2S), as well as carbon dioxide (CO2), for oil and gas players in the Permian’s Delaware sub-basin. Piñon also redelivers natural gas to third-party midstream processors within the region.

“The expansion is not in response to a current or anticipated increase in gross upstream oil/natural gas production in the region,” Piñon CEO Steven Green told NGI, “but rather, growing producer demand for a sour natural gas treating solution as...