Pipelines adjusting to Marcellus Shale Nat Gas Growth

The Marcellus Shale natural gas formation remains at the center of fundamental changes to pipeline infrastructure east of the Mississippi River, as operators send more domestic gas to East Coast markets. Three of the region s major interstate gas pipelines — Williams Cos. Transcontinental Pipeline, Kinder Morgan s Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Spectra Energy s Texas Eastern Transmission — have been debottlenecking their networks in the East as gas production has increased. The Marcellus is producing about 15 billion cubic feet a day, a lightning increase since 2007 when the shale formation produced about 1.2 bcf a day. Consequently, these eastern pipelines enjoy the best organic growth opportunities in North America, according to Moody s Investors Service, as they develop the next round of projects that will take Marcellus gas to new markets further afield to the North, West, and South — a reversal of how gas has traditionally flowed east of the Mississippi. Thank you Energy Wire.
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