July 11, 2024--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Longtime energy-producing regions such as the Haynesville in Louisiana and Texas, and the Permian Basin in Texas, are interlaced with pipeline systems old and new. And with production increasing since the advent of the shale revolution, more pipelines are needed. Just as with new highways and roads, it is inevitable that new lines will cross existing ones.