Edwards Gas Plant, Texas

The Edwards gas plant is part of the West Texas Gathering System, operated by Targa Resources. Natural gas collection uses a network of pipelines and plants known as field gathering and processing. Targa, one of around a dozen companies with extensive gathering and processing in the Permian Basin, has more than 6,000 miles of gathering pipelines and around a dozen processing plants here. Targa has a total of 26,000 miles of gas and crude pipelines, and 30 processing plants, throughout the country. There are dozens of gas plants and distribution hubs like these in West Texas.