Meritage Midstream Services II LLC, Denver, has started up a natural gas processing plant in Campbell Country, Wyo., to handle production from the Powder River basin.
The 50 Buttes gas plant has initial capacity of 70 MMcfd, but the company said it expects to add 70 MMcfd more in capacity by late 2015. The plant is large enough to accommodate as much as 300 MMcfd and is supported by “long-term acreage dedications by some of the basin’s top producers.”
50 Buttes is part of Meritage Midstream’s Thunder Creek system, which includes more than 700 miles of high and low-pressure gas pipelines, compression, NGL and liquids handling, and gas treating and processing, including the 450-MMcfd Buckshot treating plant in Converse County, Wyo., and the 34-MMcfd 4-43 processing plant in Campbell.
Meritage Midstream acquired the Thunder Creek system in August 2013 and is expanding it County (OGJ Online, Aug. 20, 2013). By yearend the company will complete construction of another 100 miles of gathering and have connected more than 110 wells to the Thunder Creek system.