The Plains Story — From Plains Resources to Pure-Play Crude Midstream Leader

This module gives candidates the full historical and structural story of Plains All American — how a 1981 E&P subsidiary became one of North America's largest midstream operators with 18,370 miles of pipeline. Understanding this arc helps candidates speak credibly about Plains' identity, its founders' fingerprints on culture, and why "midstream" is a different world from upstream and downstream energy.