Tailwater Capital

Tailwater Capital is a Dallas-based private equity firm focused on midstream and upstream oil and gas companies. Tailwater's principals have a wealth of experience providing growth equity capital across all domestic energy sectors, having invested over $1 billion in equity capital in the space over the past 14 years. Tailwater manages a portfolio that includes BlackBrush Oil & Gas, TexStar Midstream Services Petro Waste Environmental Partners, Align Midstream Partners and Pivotal Petroleum Partners.
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Brian Blakeman

CFO and Chief Compliance Officer

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Alec Bucshon

Associate

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Brady Burgin

Associate

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David Cecere

Partner

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William DeArman

Principal

Jason Downie

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Joel Fry

Partner

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Lindsay Grider

Head of Investor Relations

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Trey Hatcher

VP

Edward Herring

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Clark Hudnall

Associate

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Stephen Lipscomb

Partner

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Mark Lutz

Senior Associate

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Davis Moore

Associate

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Reed Namnoum

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Tanner Newton

VP

Scott Peters

Principal

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James Pyle

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John Spradling

Principal

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Drew Winston

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Alec Woodmansee

Associate

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Michael Zincone

Associate

Past deals in New Mexico

Southcross Energy is an oil and energy company that provides natural gas gathering, processing, treating, compression and transportation services and NGL fractionation and transportation services. It also sources, purchases, transports, and sells natural gas and NGLs. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Texstar Midstream Logistics

Private Equity Round in 2014
Texstar Midstream Logistics is a midstream company that builds and operates various midstream assets, focusing on oil and gas gathering, transportation, and processing. Texstar's focus lies in providing services to oil and gas producers in South Texas, alongside owning and operating a 20,000 BPD capacity, 56-mile crude oil pipeline system that supplies Eagle Ford crude to the Calumet San Antonio, Texas refinery.

NorTex Midstream Partners

Acquisition in 2021
NorTex Midstream Partners, LLC owns and operates natural gas storage facilities in Texas. NorTex Midstream Partners, LLC was formerly known as NorTex Gas Storage Company, LLC and changed its name to NorTex Midstream Partners, LLC in March 2012. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Houston, Texas. As of May 24, 2018, NorTex Midstream Partners, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC. It has storage facilitates in Texas.

Regency Energy Partners

Private Equity Round in 2004
Regency Energy Partners LP (the Partnership) is engaged in the gathering and processing, contract compression, treating and transportation of natural gas and the transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Partnership operates in five business segments: Gathering and Processing, Joint Ventures, Contract Compression, Contract Treating, and Corporate and Others. Its assets are primarily located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia and the mid-continent region of the United States, which includes Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. In March 2014, the Company acquired PVR Partners, L.P.

Elevate Midstream Partners

Private Equity Round in 2017
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Elevate Midstream Partners LLC is a private midstream service company focused on providing responsive, scalable, value enhancing midstream solutions to exploration and production customers across the US onshore oil and gas production basins. Elevate Midstream's services include natural gas gathering, compression, treating, processing and transportation; crude oil and condensate gathering, stabilization, transportation and storage; produced water gathering and disposal, and related marketing services. Elevate Midstream is backed by Tailwater Capital LLC with an equity commitment of up to $100 million.

Align Midstream

Private Equity Round in 2017
Align Midstream Partners is a Dallas-based midstream company focused on serving producers’ needs in emerging and established basins within the US. Align is concentrated on building greenfield midstream assets including gas, crude oil and water gathering pipelines, treating and gas processing plants, and salt water disposal wells in emerging basins. Align is also focused on acquiring midstream assets in established basins and on creating opportunities through repurposing facilities as appropriate. Align Midstream Partner’s seasoned management team has a proven track record of providing their customers meaningful midstream solutions.

Petro Waste Environmental

Private Equity Round in 2014
Petro Waste Environmental provides oilfield environmental services and solid waste disposal. It serves the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale Play, which are the most economically active oil and gas producing regions in the U.S. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Cureton Midstream

Private Equity Round in 2017
Cureton Midstream develops and operates infrastructures to transport and process natural gas products from oil and gas wells. Cureton's services involve the transportation, storage, and wholesale marketing of crude or refined petroleum products.

Pivotal Petroleum Partners

Private Equity Round in 2013
Pivotal Petroleum Partners is an oil and gas company that acquires and leases non-operated working interests and leasehold positions alongside exploration and production companies in premier resource plays and leasehold positions. The company targets opportunities that allow it to be an active participant in areas where the pace of drilling is increasing and full-field development is a priority to the operator.

Frontier Carbon Solutions

Private Equity Round in 2021
Frontier Carbon Solutions provides carbon sequestration services to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions.

Nueces Midstream, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2019
Established in 2019 and based in San Antonio, Texas, Nueces Midstream, LLC (“Nueces”) was founded by the former executives of TexStar Midstream Logistics, BlackBrush Oil & Gas and SemGas to focus on infrastructure development in south Texas and surrounding basins. Management has decades of experience in the development, commercialization, construction and operation of strategic midstream assets in key producing basins.

E2 Energy Services

Private Equity Round in 2017
E2 Energy Services is a midstream company providing midstream and energy services and solutions to the natural gas industry. E2 Energy Services develops, acquires, and operates midstream energy assets to handle and deliver customers' natural gas and liquids to market. E2’s assets include numerous facilities located in the Utica and Marcellus shale plays of Ohio and West Virginia with a total combined capacity of nearly 800 MMSCFD compressions and dehydration and 40,000 BPD stabilization with options for truck and pipeline takeaway.

Goodnight Midstream, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2016
Goodnight Midstream, LLC provides professional fluids management services to oil and gas producers in North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico. It owns and operates an extensive network of water gathering pipelines and salt water disposal wells focused on gathering and disposing of produced saltwater. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Triten Energy Partners

Private Equity Round in 2019
Triten Energy Partners invests in downstream infrastructures through asset acquisitions and development projects that deliver valuable end-products for the global refined products, renewable fuels, and petrochemical industries. Triten Energy Partners is committed to the downstream sector and seeks to establish a diverse set of assets that offer a competitive advantage to its commercial partners.

Elevate Midstream Partners

Private Equity Round in 2019
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Elevate Midstream Partners LLC is a private midstream service company focused on providing responsive, scalable, value enhancing midstream solutions to exploration and production customers across the US onshore oil and gas production basins. Elevate Midstream's services include natural gas gathering, compression, treating, processing and transportation; crude oil and condensate gathering, stabilization, transportation and storage; produced water gathering and disposal, and related marketing services. Elevate Midstream is backed by Tailwater Capital LLC with an equity commitment of up to $100 million.

Copperbeck Energy Partners

Private Equity Round in 2017
Copperbeck Energy Partners provides strategic midstream and downstream-adjacent infrastructure and services for refineries, petrochemical, and industrial concerns. The company uses an innovative approach to strategic asset and corporate development opportunities by structuring, management, and operational flexibility.

Valiant Midstream, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2017
Based in Oklahoma City, Connect Midstream was created out of our shared vision for what a midstream company can be, built on the foundation of their collective midstream and upstream experience. They are producer-focused, results-driven, full-service midstream provider, centered around rapid response to midstream infrastructure demands. They listen to our customers to create custom, forward-thinking solutions to support their needs, rooted in integrity, efficiency and transparency.

TopSail Energy

Private Equity Round in 2016
TopSail Energy, LP engages in recycling, processing, storage, transmission, and transportation for natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, fuel oil, crude oil, and waste oil. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas.

Goodnight Midstream, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2019
Goodnight Midstream, LLC provides professional fluids management services to oil and gas producers in North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico. It owns and operates an extensive network of water gathering pipelines and salt water disposal wells focused on gathering and disposing of produced saltwater. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Silver Creek Midstream

Private Equity Round in 2017
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Silver Creek Midstream is a private midstream energy company focused on providing crude and liquid petroleum gathering, storage, and terminalling services in the Permian Basin and Powder River Basin. Silver Creek Midstream is backed by a $150 million funding commitment from Tailwater and Silver Creek Midstream management.

Producers Midstream

Private Equity Round in 2016
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Producers is a newly-formed portfolio company that will focus primarily on greenfield and strategic acquisition opportunities in high growth basins across the United States.

Valiant Midstream, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2018
Based in Oklahoma City, Connect Midstream was created out of our shared vision for what a midstream company can be, built on the foundation of their collective midstream and upstream experience. They are producer-focused, results-driven, full-service midstream provider, centered around rapid response to midstream infrastructure demands. They listen to our customers to create custom, forward-thinking solutions to support their needs, rooted in integrity, efficiency and transparency.