Stated capacity and stated dates for pipeline projects, each traced to FERC, the sponsor or EIA.
New Capacity lists U.S. natural gas pipeline projects of 0.2 Bcf/d or more: new pipelines, expansions, laterals and reversals, interstate and intrastate, including the pipelines built to feed LNG terminals. Each has a status, a stated capacity, the sponsor’s stated in-service timing, a list of dated milestones and a change log.
Everything is stated by someone else. Enercast does not estimate when a pipeline will start or how much it will carry. The page reports what FERC, the sponsor or EIA has said, shows which of them said it, and records each time it changes.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Announced | The sponsor has named the project. No regulatory filing and no final investment decision. |
| Pre-filing | In FERC’s pre-filing process: a docket exists, but no certificate application yet. |
| Applied | Certificate application filed with FERC and not yet decided. |
| Approved | FERC certificate issued, or, for a project that needs none, a final investment decision taken. |
| Under construction | Construction has started. |
| Partial service | Some of the project’s capacity is in service. |
| In service | The whole project is in service. |
| On hold | The sponsor has paused or delayed it without a new date. |
| Cancelled | The sponsor has withdrawn it. |
Every night Enercast re-reads EIA’s tracker, FERC’s approved-projects list, the FERC docket of every open project and a list of sponsor pages. Anything that changed becomes a proposed update with the sentence it came from. A person approves or rejects each one before it appears on these pages, which are rebuilt weekly, on Sunday. A change that Enercast itself got wrong and reversed the same day is left out of the public change log.
From three sources: FERC (dockets and orders), the sponsor (project pages, earnings material, press releases) and EIA’s natural gas pipeline project tracker. Every row on a project page links the source that value came from.
It is the design capacity the sponsor, FERC or EIA states for the project. Enercast does not measure it. Sponsors often quote dekatherms per day; those are shown one-for-one as Bcf/d, the way EIA lists them.
That is the source’s own wording. The page does not turn it into a calendar date, because that would imply more precision than the sponsor gave. Where a project has phases, the date shown is for the final phase.
The project’s only source so far is EIA’s tracker. EIA lists a year, not a date, and its rows can lag by months. Nothing on that project has yet been checked against a FERC filing or the sponsor.
These pages are updated weekly, on Sunday. The sources are checked every night, and a change appears here only after a person at Enercast has approved it. “Verified” moves forward only when every source for that project was fetched successfully.
No. It adds up the stated capacity of approved and under-construction projects by the year their sponsors say they will enter service. Projects slip, phase in, and some feed one another, so it overstates net new takeaway.
The tracker covers projects of 0.2 Bcf/d or more that add U.S. gas transmission capacity. LNG terminals themselves, storage fields, gathering systems and smaller projects are left out. If something that qualifies is missing, email [email protected].
More questions? See the general FAQ or email [email protected].
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