New Pipelines Needed to Bring Appalachia Shales Natural Gas to Gulf Coast LNG Facilities, Study Shows
1/21/2021
The Appalachia Basin, made up of the Marcellus formations and the Utica Shale, accounted for more than 40% of the natural gas produced in the U.S. in 2020. Unlike many of the oil plays in the U.S. Lower 48, natural gas plays, including the Appalachia Basin, saw a less drastic change in production and drilling activity during the economic contraction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to GlobalData. Click to enlarge GlobalData’s latest market analysis report, Marcellus and Utica Shales in the U.S., 2020, reveals that the Appalachia region averaged 32.19 billion cubic of natural gas per day (bcfd) and 33.44bcfd in 2019 and 2020, respectively. While major oil-producing operators s
