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Completed Pipelines Boost U.S. LNG Takeaway Capacity
Natural gas pipelines that were completed in 2024 have increased U.S. takeaway capacity by 17.8 billion cubic feet per day (U.S. Energy Information Administration).
What’s going on: Five of the projects that contributed to the increased takeaway capacity—the maximum amount of gas a pipeline can transport from a production or storage site every day—are in the natural gas-producing Appalachia, Permian, Haynesville and Eagle Ford regions. Five others are in the Gulf states of Texas and Louisiana.
- They include EQT Corporation’s Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia, the Matterhorn Express Pipeline in Texas, the Regional Energy Access Project in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and both phases of the Gator Express Pipeline in Louisiana.
Why it’s important: Demand for energy is growing—and the U.S. needs plentiful, affordable, homegrown power sources to meet it.
- “The U.S. produced a record 103.2 bcfd of gas and consumed a record 90.4 bcfd of the fuel in 2024, according to U.S. EIA data” (Reuters, subscription).