With hundreds of thousands of barrels’ worth of crude oil pipeline announced during recent weeks, the midstream sector proves it’s planned ahead for the Permian Basin’s production recovery. This is the third story in a series of Rigzone’s “A Primed Pump,” an analysis of the Permian Basin in 2017. To view the second story, click here . As rig rage drove up the U.S. count to a level not seen in years, production in the prolific Permian Basin entered 2017 under the shadow of a bottleneck that threatened to choke the flow of all that black gold. But as luck would have it, the midstream sector saw that coming. During January alone, midstream companies shared their expansion plans to increase capacity by more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), hauling hydrocarbons from the Permian Basin. Analysts had forecast production increases would fill incremental capacity, and create problems for producers […]