Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. added approximately 4.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of new natural gas pipeline capacity from November 2020 through January, as four projects entered service, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Meanwhile, Industrial Info is tracking about $5 billion in U.S. natural gas »

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--As coal-fired power plants continue to close their doors, proper maintenance is only becoming more important for those staying open. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), 2.7 gigawatts (GW) of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2021, following 48 GW of retirements over the »

Williams Companies Incorporated (NYSE:WMB) (Tulsa, Oklahoma) plans to keep its growth capital expenditures (capex) in the range of $1 billion to $1.2 billion this year, roughly in line with what it spent last year, executives with the natural gas processing and transmission firm said Tuesday. Citing headwinds such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the collapse in oil prices and »

And just like that, it was warm again. As of Monday, all power power units in Texas that were impacted by last week's big freeze were up and running again, according to Industrial Info's outage event database. This is a far cry from last week, when Industrial Info was tracking outages at more than 100 power units across the Lone »

Temperatures have remained near or below freezing for several days in the southern U.S., idling production operations for much of the oil, gas, petrochemical and petroleum refining industries in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana. The extreme cold has caused instrumentation failures and ice formation has made valves and safety equipment inoperable. On Monday, there were an estimated 28 billion »