In 2008, U.S. Natural Gas Industry Saw 'Greatest' Amount of Pipeline Construction Activity in Ten Years

摘要

The need for access to growing natural gas supplies in the U.S. continued to drive the high level of pipeline construction in 2008, resulting in the most annual capacity added - 44.6 Bcf/d - during the last decade, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) declared in a recent report, Expansion of the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network: Additions in 2008 and Projects through 2011. The capacity has been added in both relatively undeveloped production regions such as the Rocky Mountains and in established transportation corridors such as in Northeast Texas where the industry is exploiting unconventional resources. "Substantial" infrastructure was added to underground storage and importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations.