Energy Transfer Announces Natural Gas Pipeline Project to Serve Growing Southwestern U.S. Markets

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 6, 2025--

Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) today announced it has reached a positive financial investment decision (FID) for the expansion of its Transwestern Pipeline to increase the supply of natural gas to markets throughout Arizona and New Mexico from Energy Transfer’s premier asset base in the prolific Permian Basin. Transwestern’s Desert Southwest pipeline expansion will provide reliable economic supplies of natural gas to support the long-term energy needs for utilities and energy providers in the region driven by population growth, high-tech industry demand and data center expansion.

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The Desert Southwest pipeline expansion project consists of 516 miles of 42-inch pipeline and nine compressor stations in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The design capacity of the pipeline is 1.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). The strategic system expansion extends Transwestern’s natural gas pipeline network, enhancing system reliability and providing additional optionality serving rapidly growing demand in the Southwestern U.S. region. The project is expected to be in-service by the fourth quarter of 2029 and builds on Transwestern Pipeline’s long history of serving the region since it started operations in 1960.

The project is expected to cost approximately $5.3 billion including $0.6 billion of Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (AFUDC), and is supported by significant long-term commitments from investment-grade customers. Energy Transfer will launch an open season later this quarter and expects the remaining capacity to be fully subscribed upon completion of the open season. Depending on the final results of the open season, the project could be efficiently expanded to accommodate additional demand.

The project promotes American industry by prioritizing U.S. steel pipe manufacturers as well as the expectation to utilize up to 5,000 local workers and union labor construction jobs during the construction period.

Energy Transfer has assets across all major U.S. supply basins and operates an extensive natural gas pipeline network that connects to energy providers in most major markets, including nearly 200 natural gas-fired power plants nationwide. This broad supply reach and deep market access provide the partnership with unique benefits, enabling it to capitalize on opportunities to increase earnings and efficiently expand its industry-leading pipeline network.

Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) owns and operates one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the United States, with approximately 140,000 miles of pipeline and associated energy infrastructure. Energy Transfer’s strategic network spans 44 states with assets in all of the major U.S. production basins. Energy Transfer is a publicly traded limited partnership with core operations that include complementary natural gas midstream, intrastate and interstate transportation and storage assets; crude oil, natural gas liquids (“NGL”) and refined product transportation and terminalling assets; and NGL fractionation. Energy Transfer also owns Lake Charles LNG Company, as well as the general partner interests, the incentive distribution rights and approximately 21% of the outstanding common units of Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN), and the general partner interests and approximately 38% of the outstanding common units of USA Compression Partners, LP (NYSE: USAC). For more information, visit the Energy Transfer LP website at www.energytransfer.com.

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Vote counting was underway Friday in Uganda’s tense presidential election, which was held a day earlier amid an internet shutdown, voting delays and complaints by an opposition leader who said some of his polling agents had been detained by the authorities.

Opposition leader Bobi Wine said Thursday he was unable to leave his house and that his polling agents in rural areas were abducted before voting started, undermining his efforts to prevent electoral offenses such as ballot stuffing.

Wine is hoping to end President Yoweri Museveni's four-decade rule in an election during which the military was deployed and heavy security was posted outside his house near Kampala, the Ugandan capital, after the vote.

The musician-turned-politician wrote on X on Thursday that a senior party official in charge of the western region had been arrested, adding there was “massive ballot stuffing everywhere.”

Rural Uganda, especially the western part of the country, is a ruling-party stronghold, and the opposition would be disadvantaged by not having polling agents present during vote counting.

To try to improve his chances of winning, Wine had urged his supporters to “protect the vote” by having witnesses document alleged offenses at polling stations, in addition to deploying official polling agents.

Wine faced similar setbacks when he first ran for president five years ago. Museveni took 58% of the vote, while Wine got 35%, according to official results. Wine said at the time that the election had been rigged in favor of Museveni, who has spoken disparagingly of his rival.

Museveni, after voting on Thursday, said the opposition had infiltrated the 2021 election and defended the use of biometric machines as a way of securing the vote in this election.

Museveni has served the third-longest tenure of any African leader and is seeking to extend his rule into a fifth decade. The aging president’s authority has become increasingly dependent on the military, which is led by his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Uganda has not witnessed a peaceful transfer of presidential power since independence from British colonial rule six decades ago.

Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station, during the presidential election, in the capital, Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Election officials count ballots after the polls closed for the presidential election at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

An election official holds up unmarked ballots during the vote count after polls closed for the presidential election, at a polling center in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A political representative speaks as he works to observe and verify the counting of ballots after polls closed in the presidential election at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A supporter of leading opposition candidate Bobi Wine cheers while watching election officials count ballots, after polls closed at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)