Williams (NYSE: WMB) is one of the leading energy infrastructure companies in North America, with 15,000 miles of interstate gas pipelines, 1,000 miles of natural gas liquid (NGL) transportation pipelines, and more than 10,000 miles of oil and gas gathering pipelines. Our facilities have daily gas processing capacities of 6.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas, and NGL production of more than 200,000 barrels per day. Williams owns the general-partner interest and majority of the limited-partner interest in Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ), one of the largest diversified energy master limited partnerships.
Because of its natural environmental advantages, natural gas fuels one-third of electric power generation and heats half of all U.S. homes. The Atlantic Sunrise Project is designed to help solve the lack of sufficient pipeline infrastructure currently preventing U.S. consumers from realizing the full economic advantages of natural gas.