Louisiana stands as the country’s number-two state for new natural gas pipeline capacity arriving in 2026 and 2027, federal data shows. The Energy Information Administration’s pipeline tracker credits the state with 8.4 Bcf/d of planned additions—roughly a fifth of the national figure, but a distant second to Texas.
As Energies Media reports, two projects anchor Louisiana’s share. The Port Arthur Pipeline Louisiana Connector should enter service in late 2026, carrying 2.0 Bcf/d, while the Pelican Pipeline is slated to follow by the close of 2027. Together they account for the state’s full 8.4 Bcf/d.
Across the country, developers expect to add about 44.9 Bcf/d over the two years. Some 31.6 Bcf/d of that—close to 70%—has already broken ground, suggesting the bulk of these projects should reach completion as scheduled.
Texas towers over every other state, claiming better than two-thirds of the national total at 29.7 Bcf/d. Most of its projects aim to move gas out of the Permian Basin, the nation’s top-producing field, and to ease bottlenecks at West Texas’s Waha Hub, where prices have swung sharply—occasionally below zero—when output overwhelmed available pipe. The new lines will also feed Gulf Coast LNG terminals and serve homes, power plants, and industrial users across the region.
Virginia takes third at 1.6 Bcf/d, all expected in 2027 via Williams’s Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, which extends the Transcontinental Pipeline down toward Alabama.
Driving the whole cycle are demand pressures with little relief in sight, Energies Media reports. Rising LNG exports along the Gulf Coast top the list, with domestic heating, electricity, and manufacturing needs piling on—all while producers race to get growing Permian volumes to buyers.
