In an effort to better reflect the logistics in the midstream industry and identify the real players in this sector, Midstream Monitor altered its reporting criteria for our annual rankings of the top natural gas processors and natural gas liquids (NGL) producers. In the past, we have based our rankings on first-party processing and production volumes. While this helped to rank the largest producer/midstream operators, we found that it wasn’t an accurate record for the true midstream players.

To better reflect this field, we asked owners of processing plants and ...