美国天然气市场正处于巨变之中。

经过通货膨胀调整后，价格已降至过去 30 年来最低水平。然而，能源公司仍在继续斥资数十亿美元建设新基础设施，希望在 2020 年前实现大规模需求增长。

然而，大部分开发都发生在墨西哥湾沿岸，通过德克萨斯州的管道和路易斯安那州的液化天然气工厂进行。美国东部最大的天然气田马塞勒斯页岩几乎没有经历墨西哥湾沿岸工业的变革。

The U.S. natural gas market is in the midst of a sea change.

Prices, adjusted for inflation, are as low as they’ve been in the last 30 years. Energy companies, however, continue to spend billions on new infrastructure in the hopes of a massive demand increase expected to hit before the end of the decade.

Yet most of that development is happening on the Gulf Coast, via pipelines in Texas and LNG plants in Louisiana. The nation’s largest gas field on the eastern side of the U.S., the Marcellus Shale, has seen little of the transformations shaking the industry along the Gulf Coast.