- Business
- The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) operates as a premier North American energy infrastructure company, primarily engaged in natural gas gathering, processing, transportation, and storage; it owns and operates extensive interstate natural gas pipeline systems including Transco and Northwest Pipeline, gathering and processing facilities, natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation and storage assets; the company handles approximately one third of U.S. daily natural gas consumption used for heating homes, cooking food, generating electricity, and fueling industrial and power sector demands. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where it relocated in 1919 after founding as Williams Brothers in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1908, Williams maintains operations across key U.S. regions such as the Permian, Haynesville, Marcellus, and Eagle Ford basins, as well as the U.S. Gulf Coast and Pacific Northwest, serving utilities, power generators, industrial customers, and LNG exporters with reliable midstream solutions. Recent developments include a March 2025 $1.6 billion agreement to finance and develop onsite natural gas and power generation infrastructure for an investment-grade counterparty under a 10-year fixed-price power purchase agreement, completion of the Crowheart acquisition in December 2024 to bolster processing capabilities, announcement of transmission expansions like Wharton West on Transco and Green River West on MountainWest, divestiture of Haynesville upstream assets to JERA for $398 million in 2025 paired with a strategic LNG partnership with Woodside Energy to build and operate the fully permitted Line 200 pipeline (3.1 Bcf/d capacity with 20-year take-or-pay contracts), and upward revision of 2025 growth capital expenditures to $2.6-$2.9 billion to support power and LNG-driven demand.