By Gary Kruse As the Mountain Valley Pipeline struggles to reach completion and New York continues to block all paths north, many are saying that if MVP ever is completed, it may be the last pipe out of the Marcellus/Utica. If that were to happen, current egress capacity for the region would become a permanent limit on annual production from the largest natural gas basin in the country. And only 600 miles away, its neighbors in New England would continue to rely heavily on liquefied natural gas imports to heat homes. Transcontinental Pipeline's Regional Energy Access (REA) project may offer a path for other pipeline developers to follow. By limiting new construction to welcoming states and otherwise using compression, it may have found a way out of the region-with one caveat. NOVEMBER 2022 61