The United States is on track to launch no less than 46 new natural gas pipelines per day in 2019, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on November 17. The new links will have a combined capacity of 16-17 billion cubic feet per day (165-175 billion cubic metres per year), the agency said.
More than half of this new capacity, or nearly 10 bcf per day (103 bcm per year), will serve the South Central region of the country, which includes Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Most of the new pipelines in this region will allow Permian Basin producers to pump gas to the Gulf of Mexico or transfer it to interstate pipelines.
The second most active region of the country is the Northeast, which includes the Mid-Atlantic states and New England as well as Ohio and West Virginia. The Northeast will add about 4.5 bcf per day (46.5 bcm per year) of capacity, most of which will serve gas producers in the Appalachian Basin.