Permian gas wave sparks biggest pipeline buildout since the shale boom

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U.S. natural gas pipelines are seeing their biggest expansion since 2008, driven by surging LNG, data-center, and manufacturing.

Growing domestic and export demand for Permian’s natural gas is pushing pipeline developers to invest in new pipeline capacity in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Chemical and manufacturing industries and data centers looking for reliable energy supply drive increased domestic consumption, while the booming LNG exports from the Texas and Louisiana coasts, and at least half a dozen new export plants expected to start up by the end of the decade, are prompting new-built or expanded links to feed gas to the LNG facilities.

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