Northeast Gathering
& Processing
Well-Positioned to Help Customers Capitalize
on New Markets, Increased Demand
Through steady and efficient capital
investment, Williams has purposefully
built the leading network of midstream
infrastructure in the northeast United
States, resulting in best-in-class
operational efficiency and speed-to-
market advantages for our customers.
Foundational assets now in place
With this strategic investment, our world-class assets now
span both the Marcellus and Utica basins, allowing us to
gather, process and transmit wet gas, and gather and deliver
dry gas.
In Northeast Pennsylvania, the heart of the highly productive
and low-cost Marcellus, our large-scale supply hubs currently
gather 5.7 Bcf/d and have extensive, reliable and robust
delivery point capabilities to markets in the Northeast,
Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Gulf Coast U.S. markets, as well
as Canada.
Since 2011, Williams has spent an average of about $1
billion in annual capital expenditures on our gathering and
processing network to expand and upgrade our existing
infrastructure; improve safety, reliability and operational
performance; and help producers connect new wells.
This doesn’t even count our significant investment in
transmission pipelines, such as Transco and our major
Atlantic Sunrise expansion.
In the Utica and Southwest Marcellus, we have and/or are
involved with a very powerful combination of premier assets.
Our Utica Supply Hub — which includes Cardinal Gathering,
Flint Gathering and Utica East Ohio — currently has
about 1.2 Bcf/d between rich and lean systems. It also
processes about 800 MMcf/d, and has a 135,000 bpd C2+
fractionation capacity.
Through this investment, we have:
More
than quadrupled our gathering and processing
pipeline mileage in the region, going from 1,000 to nearly
4,200 miles
Increased
gathering volume from slightly more than 110
million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) to nearly 7 Bcf/d.
All told, the natural gas volume Williams touches in the
Northeast United States is enough to meet energy demand
for the entire state of California or 17 other states and
Washington, D.C., combined.
Increased
horsepower from 25,000 in 2010 to about
800,000 today
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Our Ohio River Supply Hub includes Ohio Valley Midstream,
Laurel Mountain Midstream and Marcellus South. Together,
these assets have a gathering capacity of 1.5 Bcf/d of rich/
lean gas; up to 800 MMcf/d in processing capacity (with a
nameplate capacity of 720 MMcf/d); and about 80,000 bpd of
C2+ fractionation capacity.
Additionally, within this footprint, Williams has a more
than 29-percent ownership stake in and operates Blue Racer
Midstream. This includes 688 miles of gathering pipeline;
800 MMcf/d of nameplate processing capacity; residue
connections to DTI, DEO, TETCO and REX; 123,000 bpd
of C2+ fractionation; 153 miles of NGL and condensate
transport; truck, rail and barge facilities; and several NGL
connections (including WPZ, ATEX, Mariner West, Mariner
East and TEPPCO).
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