13 December 2018
North American capacity boost
The region experienced decisive additions to oil and gas capacity in 2018, with soaring natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica basins outpacing the infrastructure required to move it to market
Operators responded to the soaring production in North America in 2018 with a flurry of pipeline projects, and one of the most important of them commenced full operations in October—Williams' $3bn Atlantic Sunrise project began full operations October, adding 1.7bn cf/d of long-awaited pipeline takeaway capacity from the Marcellus Basin and boosting design capacity of the nation's largest-volume natural gas pipeline system by 12pc. An expansion of Williams' Transco system, Atlantic Sunrise, included the construction of 300km of greenfield pipe within Pennsylvania, directly connecting Marcellus gas supplies in the northern part of the state with markets as far south as Alabama via the Transco
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