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2011 Pipeline Capacity Additions

Written by Greg Russell | Feb 29, 2012 12:22:10 PM

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has a new report on pipeline capacity additions last year:  "The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that U.S. natural gas pipeline companies added about 2,400 miles of new pipe to the grid as part of over 25 projects in 2011. New pipeline projects entered service in parts of the U.S. natural gas grid that can be congested: California, Florida, and parts of the Northeast ***. Only a portion of this capacity serves incremental natural gas use; most of these projects facilitate better linkages across the existing natural gas grid."