Midstream Operations

Midstream operations are the gathering lines, booster compressors, treating, processing plants, and pipelines that take gas and liquids away from the lease. They sit between upstream production and downstream refining or end-use. A wellhead compressor is upstream of that system; a plant inlet compressor is midstream.

In the Permian, midstream constraints show up on the lease as high line pressure, flaring, and curtailed wells. That is why wellhead compression, measurement, and vapor control on the production side still have to match whatever the gatherer can take. The two sides share pipe even when they do not share a company name.

Redhead Services supplies production-side equipment that interfaces with midstream takeaway—wellhead compressors, meter runs, VRUs, and flare stacks—from Odessa. We are a field supplier, not a gathering company.