There’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on in the Southeast U.S. these days with the buildout of the region’s natural gas pipeline network. You’ve heard this song before. The need for more infrastructure and capacity to meet power demand from planned gas-fired plants and data centers, and more pipe connections between basins and export terminals is seriously real. But the Southeast region is also in competition for natural gas supplies to feed those demands, driving pipeline operators to get ahead of what lies ahead.

Reese Energy Consulting today spotlights the latest from the Southeast whose core states include Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., and S.C. Gas production across this region is a combined 400 MMCFD versus consumption of 11 BCFD. Gas supplies come primarily from the Appalachian Basin and the Haynesville.

Among the numerous Southeastern projects getting greenlights here, the FERC this week approved two natural gas pipeline expansions that together will add 1.8 BCFD of delivery capacity to supply the region’s industrial customers and an LNG export dock in the New Orleans area. The projects include Venture Global’s 26.8-mile Gator Express Pipeline, which will feed an additional 627 MMCFD of gas to the company’s Plaquemines LNG export terminal in La., and Boardwalk Pipeline’s 111-mile expansion of the 1.2 BCFD Kosci Junction pipeline project, which will flow gas across nine counties in Miss.

The FERC at the end of July approved Kinder Morgan’s $3.5 billion South System 4 and its $1.7 billion Mississippi Crossing project, which together will flow 2.1 BCFD of gas from Miss., to Ga.