Caliche Development Partners ("Caliche") is a Houston, Texas-based company focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of subsurface storage assets in North America, with a primary focus on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Caliche currently owns a 53-acre storage facility on the Spindletop salt dome near Beaumont, Texas with 59 million barrels of permitted cavern storage space. Caliche operates 5.0 million barrels of ethylene storage under a long term contract and is building a new 3.0 million barrel cavern for industrial gas storage under a long term storage agreement.