Williams Announces Major Expansion Of Its Natural Gas Pipeline In Southeast US

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Williams Partners announces a major expansion of its Transco natural gas pipeline was completed and brought into service:

Co announced today a major expansion of its Transco natural gas pipeline was completed and brought into service, providing an additional 225,000 dekatherms of incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to growing markets in the Southeast United States. The Mid-South Expansion project provides service to power generators in North Carolina and Alabama as well as a local distribution company in Georgia. 

Transco is a 10,200-mile pipeline system that transports natural gas to markets throughout the northeastern and southeastern United States. Transco's major customers are primarily power generators, local distribution companies and producers. 

In the last decade, the company has placed into service 16 Transco growth projects totaling in excess of $1.2 billion of capital investment, and growing system capacity to 9.9 MMdth/d.