Supply preparations are accelerating for LNG deliveries overseas from British Columbia (BC) after TC Energy Corp. secured approval for a pipeline connection.

With exploration and production support, the Calgary-based midstream giant also has proposed a special export toll for liquefied natural gas.

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) finalized TC’s Willow Valley Interconnect, which would link Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) and the Coastal GasLink (CGL) conduit. Willow Valley, forecast to cost around $5.3 million, would traverse the Montney Shale, with supply destined for the Shell plc-led LNG Canada terminal nearing completion on the BC coast.

CER also was asked to approve a “firm transportation-linked export service,” devised in consultation by NGTL with its shippers....