- TransCanada (NYSE:TRP) wins certificate approval from the FERC for the 170-mile Mountaineer XPress project in West Virginia, the second largest natural gas expansion project in the U.S. northeast.
- Like the Rover Pipeline, the 2.7B cf/day Mountaineer XPress is producer-backed and expected to increase production in the Marcellus shale and raise deliveries from the northeast to neighboring regions including the U.S. Gulf area.
- The FERC also granted certificate approval to TRP's 860M cf/day Gulf XPress project, adding seven new compressor stations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.