Recently formed midstream oil and gas company Cardinal Midstream Partners said late Nov. 2 it has agreed to acquire the Delaware Basin natural gas gathering and processing business of Medallion Midstream LLC.

The acquisition follows a one-step auction process primarily involving strategic bidders, The Deal has learned. Medallion’s assets were marketed on north of $30 million in projected 2023 Ebitda, industry sources with some knowledge of the process said.

Medallion’s gas gathering and processing system is located in Reeves and Loving counties in west Texas and includes 80 miles of gathering pipelines and a processing facility with 140 million cubic feet of gas per day in capacity.

Several gathering and processing businesses have traded hands in 2020, and while terms of Wednesday’s deal were not disclosed, the industry sources said that Medallion’s assets likely captured a value in line with recent deals, which have come in as high as 7 to 8 times projected Ebitda.

In June, Targa Resources Corp. (TRGP) said it agreed to acquire Delaware Basin-focused natural gas gathering, treating, and processing services provider Lucid Energy Delaware LLC from Riverstone Holdings LLC and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, for $3.55 billion, or about 7.5 times the target’s 2023 adjusted Ebitda. Lucid owns 1,050 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines and had about 1.4 billion cubic feet per day of gas processing capacity in service or under construction at the time of the sale.

The Nov. 2 deal marks Cardinal Midstream’s first transaction since picking up an equity commitment of up to $300 million from familiar investor EnCap Flatrock Midstream LP. Dallas-based Cardinal is led by Doug Dormer and is the first management team EnCap Flatrock backed when the fund was formed in 2008.