Pipelines at night

As America produces record-breaking amounts of energy, keeping prices affordable for families across the country, pipeline infrastructure constraints are now preventing additional supplies of oil and natural gas from reaching homes, businesses, and power plants.

Bottlenecks have become a problem in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico at the center of the shale boom. Drillers are pumping so much oil and gas that pipelines considered more than adequate just a few years ago now are overwhelmed.

Read more – The Wall Street Journal