TC Energy, the Canadian pipeline company building feed-gas links to LNG projects in North America, is planning huge investments to transport more Appalachian shale gas and constructing the Coastal Gaslink in British Colombia as well as the natural gas “infrastructure backbone” of Mexico.
The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) has decided to consider a jurisdiction claim by environmentalists that pipeline company TransCanada Corp. needs more than British Columbian provincial permits to build the Coastal GasLink feed-gas supply line for the Royal Dutch Shell-led LNG Canada project.
TransCanada Corp., the North American pipeline company with plans for LNG plant connections in British Columbia and elsewhere in the region, said it had placed into service a key Mexican pipeline across the border from the US states of Texas and New Mexico.
TransCanada Corp. said the National Energy Board had recommended government approval of a variance to the previously issued North Montney Mainline Project certificate, allowing construction to start on the $1.4 billion project originally linked to a cancelled LNG venture.
TransCanada Corp., the North American pipeline company, said its Cameron Access project has been placed into service in southwest Louisiana, securing deliveries of natural gas to the Cameron LNG export plant being developed by Sempra Energy of the US and partners.
TransCanada Corp., the Canadian and North American pipeline and infrastructure operator, has launched a new open season on its Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) system expansion for binding capacity commitments at the Empress-McNeill export delivery point onward to the US border for volumes formerly expected to be shipped as LNG from British Columbia to Asia.
Canada will import more shale gas from the US by the eastern route, potentially straight to the federal capital Ottawa, from where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has led the regulatory onslaught against the hydrocarbon industry.
The Canadian Province of British Columbia has issued an environmental assessment certificate for the North Montney Mainline Pipeline project to connect the shale-gas plays of northeast BC to existing and new natural gas markets, notably any LNG projects that eventually reach development on the coast.
The Canadian National Energy Board has added to the uncertainty in the natural gas market by declining a request by the largest pipeline company, TransCanada, to amend its tariff for storage transportation on the Canadian Mainline Gas system amid LNG project postponements and plunging prices.
TransCanada Corp. is advancing plans to be a key US LNG project feed-gas transporter and is selling its power business to help finance expansion into resource areas such as the Marcellus Shale, the US Gulf Coast and pipeline exports to Mexico to offset the hold-ups in Canadian LNG and other energy projects.