Where is all the new Natural Gas Pipeline Construction?

U.S. natural gas pipeline capacity investment slowed in 2012 after several years of robust growth. Limited capacity additions were concentrated in the northeast United States, mainly focused on removing bottlenecks for fast growing Marcellus shale gas production. More than half of new pipeline projects that entered commercial service in 2012 were in the Northeast (see map below). Excluding gathering, storage, and distribution lines, project sponsors in the United States added 4.5 billion cubic feet per day of new pipeline capacity and 367 miles of pipe totaling $1.8 billion in capital expenditures in 2012.




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