Highlights Pipeline buildout slowed dramatically Potential constraint on production growth, outflows Denver — The Appalachian basin has effectively become “de-bottlenecked” following a wave of pipeline project start-ups. But with virtually no new production-takeaway capacity expected to come online in the next year, the Northeast could be on a path to becoming “re-bottlenecked” as rising production fills existing capacity. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now In 2018 roughly 8 Bcf/d of producer-backed pipeline capacity was added to the Northeast region as a handful of high-volume expansion projects that had been years in the making finally came online. Last year saw the full start-up of the greenfield Rover Pipeline and Nexus Gas Transmission systems, as well as expansions on existing pipelines including the Atlantic Sunrise project on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line, and the WB XPress and Leach XPress projects on Columbia Gas Transmission. This wave […]