Who owns Northwest Pipeline?
Northwest Pipeline is owned by Williams (the United States, NYSE: WMB).[1]
Evidence: The Williams Companies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Williams Companies, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Tulsa
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Energy › Oil & gas › Pipelines & midstream
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: WMB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Northwest Pipeline
Northwest Pipeline LLC owns and operates an approximately 3,900-mile natural gas pipeline from the San Juan basin to the Canadian border near Sumas, Washington, according to Williams' 2025 10-K. It is FERC-regulated and is one of Williams' interstate transmission businesses.
What Williams's annual report says about Northwest Pipeline
Sentences about Northwest Pipeline from Williams's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC None Northwest Pipeline LLC None Both Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC and Northwest Pipeline LLC meet the conditions set forth in General Instructions I(1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-K and is therefore filing this Form 10-K with the reduced disclosure format specified in General Instructions I(2) of Form 10-K.
How often Williams names Northwest Pipeline in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Northwest Pipeline
Where Northwest Pipeline sits in Williams
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Williams
Williams controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in energy.
Also in energy
Other brands in pipelines & midstream, and who owns them
The 35 brands in pipelines & midstream on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is Energy Transfer, with 4; Williams has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Dakota Access Pipeline | Energy Transfer | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dixie Pipeline | Enterprise Products | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Basin Pipeline | Plains All American | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Corpus Christi LNG | Cheniere | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cenit | Ecopetrol | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| Enbridge Mainline System | Enbridge | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Columbia Pipeline Group | TC Energy | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Aris Water Solutions | Western Midstream | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Williams
Williams is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tulsa, United States, founded in 1908. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: WMB.
Williams says in its 2025 Form 10-K that it was founded in 1908, is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and owns an interest in and operates over 32,000 miles of pipelines. The filing describes Transco, Northwest Pipeline and MountainWest as its interstate natural gas transmission businesses, alongside gathering and processing and NGL operations.
🇺🇸 Northwest Pipeline and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Northwest Pipeline is not one of them.
- AES Ohio — AES 🇺🇸
- Agway Energy Services — Suburban Propane 🇺🇸
- Alabama Power — Southern Company 🇺🇸
- AmeriGas — UGI 🇺🇸
- American Transmission Company — WEC Energy Group 🇺🇸
- Arch Resources — Core Natural Resources 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Northwest Pipeline?
The parent company of Northwest Pipeline is Williams, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Northwest Pipeline American?
Yes. Northwest Pipeline originated in the United States and its owner, Williams, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Northwest Pipeline still owned by Williams?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Northwest Pipeline is still owned by Williams. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Williams Companies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 24 February 2026; retrieved 5 October 2026.
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