Multi-basin exploration and production firm EOG Resources Inc. in the third quarter made steady progress toward completing a natural gas pipeline that would transport Eagle Ford Shale supply to Gulf Coast markets.

EOG completed construction on a natural gas treatment facility, as well as the first phase of a 36-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline from the Dorado field. The pipeline connects the natural gas play situated in the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford in South Texas to the Agua Dulce sales point near Corpus Christi, TX.

The pipeline “will be instrumental in expanding our gas sales options for the 21 Tcf of net resource potential we’ve captured in Dorado,” Senior Vice President for Marketing Lance Terveen said during the company’s third quarter earnings conference...