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Crestwood, BlueStone Ink Barnett Gas Processing Deal

Crestwood Equity Partners LP announced it has entered into new, long-term commercial agreements with BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC to gather and process natural gas across its Alliance, Lake Arlington and Cowtown systems in the Barnett Shale.
Under the terms of the agreement, Crestwood will provide services to BlueStone for a period of 10 years under a fixed-fee and percent of proceeds fee structure. As part of the agreement, BlueStone has provided production assurance to Crestwood whereby across all systems BlueStone will return currently shut-in wells to production by July 1, 2016 and will not shut-in or choke back production for economic purposes through the end of 2018.
On April 6, 2016, BlueStone closed the acquisition of Quicksilver Resources Inc. Barnett Shale assets. In…
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