Williams delivered its third quarter update last week. The company is working overtime to expand its extensive network of natural gas pipelines. Quick fact: Did you know that Williams’ pipeline network handles about one-third of U.S. natural gas? Massive! And it’s only going to grow, according to CEO Alan Armstrong, who said: “Not only do…
Read More...Williams’ Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project expands the mighty Transco pipeline in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to deliver an extra 829 MMcf/d of Marcellus gas to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. About 450,000 MMcf/d of the total capacity went online in late 2023 along Transco’s Leidy Line in Pennsylvania. Another 160 MMcf/d went…
Read More...Last November, MDN brought you the news that pipeline giant Williams planned to proceed with a new Transco pipeline expansion project called the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (see Transco Expansion to Add 1.4 Bcf/d Capacity to Flow M-U Gas South). The project was estimated to flow an extra 1.43 Bcf/d (billion cubic feet per day)…
Read More...Alan Armstrong Alan Armstrong, CEO of Williams, had some interesting things to say during a recent webinar hosted by the Global Listed Infrastructure Organization (GLIO). Among Armstrong’s comments: “Across the board, I’ve never seen a time like this. I’ve been with Williams for 38 years and in the gas pipeline and gathering business for that…
Read More...While there are a number of interstate pipelines that crisscross the Marcellus/Utica, there is one pipeline system that is key to moving molecules out of our region to other markets, particularly in the southeast and the Gulf Coast: Transcontinental Gas Pipeline LLC (Transco), owned by Williams. Transco stretches from the Gulf Coast to New York…
Read More...Willie Phillips The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in late July vacating (nullifying) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of Transco’s Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project to bring gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and Maryland (see DC Circuit Libs Reverse FERC Approval of Transco Northeast Expansion). At a FERC open…
Read More...On July 12, Williams asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to bring the final pieces of the Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project online by the end of July (see Williams Asks FERC to Place Balance of Transco REAE Online Early). On July 26, FERC granted Williams’s request to bring online the…
Read More...The CEO of midstream giant Williams, Alan Armstrong, spoke at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference yesterday. He gave conference attendees an update on the many (many!) projects Williams has recently completed, is currently completing, and is likely to complete in the future. The company is on track, said Armstrong, to add 12 new pipeline projects…
Read More...In 2015, a group of nearly 60 landowners in northeastern Pennsylvania who had leased their land for fracking filed a lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy, Anadarko, Statoil (now Equinor), Mitsui E&P, and Access Midstream (later bought by Williams), alleging the companies had improperly deducted post-production costs (e.g., gas gathering and transportation expenses) from royalties owed to…
Read More...Recently, we’ve told you about the coming demand for natural gas to generate electricity that data centers and artificial intelligence will need (see Big Midstream Companies Eye Data Center/AI Market for New Pipes). The left’s answer for increased power demand is to kill new data centers and ban AI (see Leftists Argue for Ban on…
Read More...Williams Nudges Aside Coterra? Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Coterra Energy … … [Editor’s Note: Fish for the Fallen provides recreation and retreats for veterans and first responders who live with PTSD and other injuries. Williams and Coterra support it.] Patriots Cove staff and volunteers near Noxen in Wyoming County continued their Memorial Day
Read More...NESE Still Lives in the Deep Waters of NJ and NY Politics Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: NESE, the pipeline, not the monster, is still alive but trapped below the deep waters of New Jersey and New York politics, which subservient to elitist causes.] It’s time to
Read More...Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance: The UN Corporatist Adventure Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The United Nation’s Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance illustrates the corruption of the UN and the entire corporatist adventure that is the global warming scam.] The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) is
Read More...Transco Gets FERC Approval for Critical Pipeline Project Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Transco is going for another pipeline project to serve New Jersey and the metro area. FERC has approved the Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project.] In March 2019, MDN told you about a new
Read More...Natural Gas A Driving Economic Force in Northeast Pennsylvania Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Coterra Energy … … Natural gas is a major force in the economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania, especially in the Endless Mountains counties of Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming! The phrase “in these uncertain times” has shifted this year from the mysteries surrounding
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