Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP acquires, owns, develops, and operates various midstream energy assets in North America. The company operates through three segments: Crude Oil Transportation & Logistics, Natural Gas Transportation & Logistics, and Processing & Logistics. The Crude Oil Transportation & Logistics segment engages in the ownership and operation of the Pony Express System, a crude oil pipeline serving the Bakken Shale and other nearby oil producing basins. The Natural Gas Transportation & Logistics segment owns and operates interstate natural gas pipelines and integrated natural gas storage facilities with approximately 4,655 miles of transportation pipelines in Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. This segment provides services primarily to third-party local distribution companies, industrial users, and other shippers. The Processing & Logistics segment owns and operates natural gas processing, treating, and fractionation facilities that produce natural gas liquids and residue gas for sale in local wholesale markets or delivers into pipelines for transportation to additional end markets, as well as provides water business services, principally to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP was founded in 2013 and is based in Leawood, Kansas.