About Us

Caiman Energy is an independent midstream energy company that provides the infrastructure and services necessary to move natural gas products from the wellhead to market. Our senior management team has more than 120 years of experience in designing, building, owning, operating and acquiring midstream assets in shale plays including the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus plays. We have developed a strong reputation for superior producer service, the ability to quickly design and build midstream infrastructure and operate it safely and reliably. Caiman's mission is to leverage its partners' deep industry experience to become a premier provider of midstream services to oil and gas producers and end users.

We are focused on meeting the needs of our dedicated producer base by aligning with its drilling schedules and staying ahead of its infrastructure requirements. Our objective is to ensure that our customers have the right facilities in place at the right time to rapidly and efficiently get their gas to high-value markets. Caiman is currently pursuing projects in unconventional resource plays across the United States including the emerging Marcellus, Eagle Ford and Haynesville shale plays. We are driven by superior execution and customer service.

We pride ourselves on the ability to act quickly and decisively. We initiated business development activities in the rich gas area of the Marcellus in May 2009 (map of initial assets in the Marcellus). By July of that year we had funded a major TET interconnect in Marshall County, West Virginia. Construction of our gathering and processing system began in November, and we began flowing gas in March 2010, bringing our first cryogenic processing plant online at Fort Beeler, West Virginia, in January 2011. We are continuing to expand our footprint in the Marcellus with the construction of additional gathering lines and processing plants, an NGL pipeline and a fractionation facility on the Ohio River with truck, barge and pipeline access. Caiman's strategic alliances with TETCO and Inergy provide producers on the Caiman system with dependable take-away service. We partner with Inergy to distribute our customers' NGLs to wholesale and retail markets. Inergy is one of the largest propane marketers in the country.

Founded in 2009 by partners Jack Lafield, Danny Thompson and Rick Moncrief, our company serves producers by providing a full complement of midstream services including natural gas gathering to well pads, compression, dehydration, transportation, measurement, treating and conditioning, processing and fractionation services. Caiman also works with the nation's leading regional marketers to ensure that producers have flexible transportation options and receive the best possible value for their products. Additional services that complement our core services include water gathering, crude oil gathering and handling, carbon dioxide sequestration, lease and facility fuel gas supply, as well as "back office" services such as gas marketing for producers and gas supply for end users.

Caiman is a privately held company supported by the EnCap Energy Infrastructure Fund, a private equity fund managed by EnCap Flatrock Midstream of San Antonio, Texas. EnCap Flatrock has more than $1.2 billion in midstream equity under management and 66 prestigious institutional investors.