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Twenty archaeologists are urgently needed to speed the progress of the $554 million natural gas pipeline being built across what is known as the Huasteca region in Central Mexico.

A routine toll renewal application has triggered an avalanche of demands for rate cuts on TransCanada Corp.’s cross-country Mainline from natural gas shippers plagued by surpluses and poor prices.

Natural gas demand by Alberta thermal oilsands plants is propelling the latest entry in serial additions to TransCanada Corp.’s Western Canada gas supply collection network, Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL).

Western Canada producers are selling off a surplus of steeply discounted natural gas that piled up during a prolonged pipeline service interruption last year.

Alberta industry will take over exports to the United States as the engine of growth in Western Canadian natural gas production for the next 10 years, according to a new forecast by TransCanada Corp., the country’s main pipeline operator.

FERC has issued certificates of public convenience and necessity for the Mountaineer XPress and Gulf XPress projects, a pair of TransCanada Corp. efforts to increase natural gas pipeline capacity out of the Appalachian Basin by expanding the company’s Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s system.

A new eastern path will open for Canadian imports of shale gas from the United States — potentially straight to the national capital, Ottawa — as a result of a pipeline direction switch approved by the National Energy Board (NEB).

Flows resume Monday into the United States from Alberta on the Keystone oil pipeline after an 11-day interruptionto repair a leak and start cleaning up a 5,000 bbl oil spill in northeastern South Dakota.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s WB XPress Project was issued a FERC certificate Friday to allow a 1.3 Bcf/d expansion in West Virginia and Virginia to move forward.