Williams commissions two Transco expansion projects
Williams has commissioned two fully contracted expansion projects related to its Transco natural gas pipeline, namely the Southeast Energy Connector in Alabama, and the Texas to Louisiana Energy Pathway along the Gulf Coast.
The Texas to Louisiana Energy Pathway project expands Transco’s capacity in Texas and Louisiana by 364 MMcfd while the Southeast Energy Connector provides 150 MMcfd of natural gas capacity.
Williams owns and operates Transco, a 10,000-plus-mile natural gas transportation system extending from South Texas to New York City. The nation’s largest-volume natural gas pipeline system, Transco moves about 20% of the natural gas produced in the US, according to Williams.
With these expansions, the Transco pipeline’s system-design capacity has increased to over 20 bcfd.
Demand for natural gas continues to grow across US markets, “driven by increasing electric power generation, reshoring of energy-intensive manufacturing, data center load growth, and LNG exports,” said Alan Armstrong, president and chief executive officer for Williams. He said the company is committed to meeting the demand “with 12 high-return transmission projects currently in execution, which will add more than 3.25 billion cubic feet per day to our transmission systems over the next several years.”
