After years of battling special interest groups, environmentalists, and local and state officials, Tulsa-based midstream giant Williams in 2024 took a breather from all the drama set on snuffing out the company’s proposed Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline. The NESE is a $1 billion expansion of the company’s 10,500-mile Transco system—the nation’s largest by volume—flowing up to 4.5 BCFD of natural gas from Texas to N.Y., with a whole lotta connections along the way.

Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest news from Williams, which two years later now never aborted its plan to build the NESE, a 24-mile pipeline, most of which would be built underwater from N.J., to N.Y.. The extension would add 400,000 dekatherms per day of capacity to Pa., N.J., and NYC—enough energy to supply the equivalent of 2.3 million homes, while lowering costs and helping to meet growing energy demands. But when conditions and timing are as ripe as a Florida-kissed orange, a new door often opens.

And lo and behold, the NESE stepped right through that threshold with permits in hand to go forth and put shovel to dirt in an operation all but declared dead two years ago. The current administration, no doubt, has played a huge role in this project ensuring this little doggie doesn’t stay home. Whitehouse officials joined Williams and Transco on April 14 to break ground on the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline slated for completion next year.