Major players addressing multi-state natural gas needs.

The article reports on the joint venture formed by the four major U.S. energy companies, which include Duke Energy Corp., Piedmont Natural Gas and AGL Resources, to build and own the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline to address multi-state natural gas needs. It says that the pipeline would provide new route for direct access to the production in the Utica and Marcellus shale basing of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and deliver natural gas supplies to Virginia and North Carolina.