TC Energy Corp. expects to complete construction of the 886 MMcf/d Tula-Villa de Reyes pipeline in Mexico during 2021.

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The construction timetable is subject to the “timely reopening of government agencies,” executives said last Thursday during a fourth quarter earnings call. Executives cited the coronavirus as impacting the project.

Upon completion, TC plans to phase-in service. The 261-mile line would connect to TC’s operating Tamazunchale pipeline, and to the Tuxpan-Tula pipeline, whose construction has been held up by a pending indigenous consultation process by Mexican Energy Ministry Sener.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said in the past he would ask TC to seek an alternative route for the 56-mile middle section of Tuxpan-Tula because of local...