Carthage Gas Plant, Texas

A major natural gas gathering station in eastern Texas, where gas from the region's gas fields is collected, processed, chilled, compressed, and routed out to customers and other processing stations through the network of 145,000 miles of gas pipline in the state of Texas, and to the larger lines that connect to customers in the northeastern United States. This station was constructed in the early 1950s, part of a pipeline system owned by Union Pacific, and later by Duke Energy. There are five plants on the site, totaling 780 million cubic feet per day capacity. It is operated primarily by the MarkWest company, and by DCP Midstream, as the East Texas Gas Plant.