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FERC has given Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) permission to launch part of its Ohio Pipeline Energy Network (OPEN) project into service early, after the company sent federal regulators several photos, including an aerial shot, to illustrate that it had started restoration activities at one of its compressor stations.

TransCanada Corp. is digging in for a fight with its natural gas customers, calling their protest against costs that they blame on its Energy East plan to switch part of its Mainline into oil service a “patent and extreme” attack on its ability to manage the system.

Investigators with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Spectra Energy are trying to determine how part of the company's Texas Eastern natural gas pipeline under the Arkansas River near Little Rock ruptured, leaving a two-mile stretch of the river closed to commercial traffic.

Investigators with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Spectra Energy are trying to determine how part of the company’s Texas Eastern natural gas pipeline under the Arkansas River near Little Rock ruptured, leaving a two-mile stretch of the river closed to commercial traffic.

TransCanada Corp. has been directed to submit to a safety checkup before regulatory review begins on its Energy East proposal to switch part of its natural gas Mainline over to 1.1 million b/d of oil deliveries.

TransCanada Corp. has set out to obtain a speedy verdict on plans to overhaul and enlarge its pipeline network by brushing aside objections from natural gas distribution companies in Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern United States.

A 28-year-old trade alliance is breaking up over TransCanada Corp.’s program for increasing imports of natural gas from the United States into Ontario and Quebec by raising capacity on eastern legs of its Mainline.

Canada’s top natural gas transmission and distribution companies have completed a deal that calls for three cooperative pipeline expansions to improve Ontario and Quebec access to U.S. shale gas flowing north through border crossings from Michigan and New York State near Sarnia and Niagara Falls in Ontario over at least the next 16 years.

TransCanada Corp. set out Friday to keep a promise to Ontario, Quebec and American exporters by maintaining full firm natural gas service while converting part of its Mainline to oil deliveries.