More than 20 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas pipeline capacity is under construction, partly completed or approved to deliver natural gas to five U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals currently under construction. According to the latest Natural Gas Pipeline Tracker from U.S. Energy Information Administration, some of the new pipeline capacity is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and some is under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas. About 13.5 Bcf/d of pipeline capacity is currently under construction, and each new LNG terminal – Golden Pass, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi Stage III and Rio Grande in Texas and Plaquemines in Louisiana – has one or more pipelines being developed.
Golden Pass Pipeline is expanding an existing 69-mile pipeline that originates near Starks, La., to enable deliveries of 2.5 Bcfd of natural gas to the Golden Pass LNG terminal in Jefferson County. WhiteWater Midstream is constructing a 39-mile pipeline with capacity of 1.7 Bcfd to deliver natural gas to Corpus Christi Stage III project. It originates in Eagle Ford near the Agua Dulce hub in Nueces County.
Cheniere Corpus Christi Pipeline is constructing a 21-mile pipeline with 1.5 Bcfd co-located with an existing 2.8 Bcfd pipeline for deliveries to CC Stage III. And Rio Bravo Pipeline is constructing two 138-mile pipelines with combined capacity of 4.5 Bcfd to deliver natural gas from Agua Dulce to Rio Grande LNG terminal in Brownsville.