After several leaner years, energy midstream companies have reached an inflection point. Many in the sector will start producing significant excess free cash flow after funding their dividends and expansion programs. That would give them even more money to return to investors via higher dividends and share repurchases. Those higher cash returns could fuel monster total returns.

Here's a look at some of the pipeline stocks poised to produce the most excess cash in the coming years.  

Citi analyst Spiro Dounis recently published a new report on the U.S. midstream sector. The analyst wrote that the industry has "entered a new period of elevated capital returns" as free cash flow should surge. 

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