Sindara Steel Co., Ltd has supplied ERW Steel Pipe / Seamless steel pipe to this gas pipeline project with link the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast.

A shortage of crude oil and natural gas pipeline capacity is squeezing Permian Basin drillers. Kinder Morgan's $1.75 billion Gulf Coast Express natural gas pipeline — seen here in June 2018 in Midland County — is under construction and will link the Permian Basin with the Texas Gulf Coast.

The developer of the private equity-backed EPIC natural gas liquids pipeline will temporarily convert the conduit to carry crude oil as bottlenecks in America's hottest shale play threaten to curtail production.

Oil service on the third and final phase of EPIC Midstream Holdings LP's NGL pipeline is expected to start in the third quarter of next year, the company said in a statement Friday. That would offer interim relief to producers in the prolific Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, a region facing a dearth of pipeline capacity until late 2019, when new projects are expected to enter service.