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MIDLAND, Texas — The midstream sector has brought in a lot of cash in 2023, but so far, its windfall is being used to pay down debt rather than capex or M&A. That may change soon, particularly as companies look…

DALLAS, October 3, 2023 — Tailwater Capital LLC (“Tailwater”), an energy and growth infrastructure private equity firm, today released its Annual Responsible Investment Report highlighting Tailwater’s approach to responsible investment, achievements tied to the firm’s environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”)…

DALLAS, August 1, 2023 — Tailwater Capital (“Tailwater”), in a partnership with The Foundation for the Women’s Energy Network (WEN Foundation), announced two scholarship recipients for the 2023-24 academic school year. Bailey Kaybah Nez, an environmental and geology major at…

In 2016, TopSail Energy, an environmental company whose original focus was on producing vacuum gas oil from reclaimed used motor oil, purchased 44 undeveloped acres in Baytown for its plant. The company’s plans shifted in July 2021 as Tailwater, a…

By some estimates, the United States will be producing 55 million barrels a day of produced water by 2025, with the Permian Basin—the epicenter of development and production activity—accounting for the lion’s share. That is obviously a tremendous volume of…

Private equity firm Tailwater Capital is deepening its roots in U.S. shale basins through an equity raise and several royalty acquisitions in prominent shale plays. Tailwater Royalties Fund LP, an affiliate of the Dallas-based private equity firm, closed its fund…

DALLAS – April 11, 2023 – Silver Creek Midstream, LLC (“Silver Creek”), a private midstream company that operates crude oil gathering, transportation and storage assets in Wyoming, today announced the promotion of two senior leaders. Chris Storey, who previously served…

Few sectors have experienced as much change in the past few years as energy. Most recently, investors in the sector have navigated forces that include the war in Ukraine, a rebound in oil and gas prices and a steady push…

Like conjoined twins, the fates of upstream and midstream oil and gas companies have historically been intertwined. But they are siblings with much different personalities. Upstreamers want to describe themselves as wildcatters that take big risks and generate big rewards….

Massive stimulus, in the amount of $400bn, has given the renewable energy movement a spark, but energy transition is challenged as inflationary pressures have brought investors back to oil and gas. by Obey Martin Manayati, Private Equity International The Inflation…

DALLAS, September 14, 2022 — Tailwater Capital LLC (“Tailwater”), a private equity firm that takes a full immersion approach to investing in energy and growth infrastructure solutions, today published its inaugural ESG Annual Report highlighting Tailwater’s environmental, social, and governance…

A newly formed asset development company backed by private equity wants to sell treated produced water to municipalities in arid regions of the United States. It believes it can do so at a price point comparable to what its prospective…

Edward Herring, a co-founder and managing partner at Tailwater Capital, said the Russia-Ukraine war reinforces the private-equity firm’s conviction on the importance of natural gas in the transition to clean-energy sources Private-equity firm Tailwater Capital is a big believer that…

Jason Downie, co-founder and managing partner at Tailwater Capital, shares his thoughts on what lies ahead for the energy-infrastructure sector Real-assets investments have attracted growing interest among institutional investors in recent years, thanks partly to concerns over inflation risk, low…

Today’s featured 25 Influential Women in Energy honoree is Lindsay Grider, head of investor relations at Tailwater Capital based in Dallas. Lindsay Grider moved around the U.S. as a child and then ultimately her family relocated to Singapore when she was…

Tailwater Capital’s premise is that demand for affordable, reliable energy isn’t going anywhere. The private equity firm’s deals are designed to help supply it. Jason Downie, co-founder and managing partner of Dallas-based Tailwater Capital LLC, has a take on the…

Last year was a turbulent one for the upstream sector, with companies reacting to lower commodity prices by slashing capital expenditure and in some cases cutting shareholder pay-outs. That assessment from the February 2021 Energy Council Outlook Survey Report will…

Tailwater Capital announced three acquisitions in the last month, and the firm’s co-founders and managing partners said there will be more to come in 2021. The Dallas-based private equity firm, which focuses on middle market infrastructure associated with energy, expects…

The Dallas private-equity firm looks to benefit from the role gas-fired electricity generation plays as a supplement to renewable power

The Dallas energy-infrastructure investor will combine one of the acquired businesses with an existing portfolio company in Oklahoma’s Arkoma Basin By Luis GarciaJan. 27, 2021 7:00 am ET Tailwater Capital agreed to acquire two pipeline operators from private-equity peer EnCap…