Antero Midstream Partners is a growth-oriented limited partnership that focuses on developing midstream infrastructure in the Marcellus and Utica Shales. Their assets include gathering pipelines, compressor stations, processing plants, and water handling facilities. They provide midstream services to Antero Resources under a long-term contract. Antero Midstream Partners operates in the rapidly developing liquids-rich core of the Marcellus Shale in northwest West Virginia and the Utica Shale in southern Ohio. They own an integrated system of natural gas gathering pipelines, compression stations, processing and fractionation plants, and freshwater pipelines and storage facilities.