HOUSTON, March 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TransCanada Corporation (TSX: TRP) (NYSE: TRP) (TransCanada) today announced the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the full in-service of its Mountaineer XPress (MXP) project, allowing the company to increase the flow of gas on MXP and begin operating its Gulf XPress (GXP) project. The projects are a vital link between Appalachian natural gas supplies and growing markets in the U.S. and beyond.

How do you fit 14 months of construction into nine? Not with a time machine, but with hard work, ingenuity and innovation like recently seen on the 2021 NGTL System Expansion Project. The project will add a significant amount of pipeline to the NGTL system in Alberta and three 30-megawatt compressor station unit additions at Beiseker, Nordegg and Didsbury.

In recognition of International Women’s Day, we’re having discussions about unconscious biases in the workplace across the company this week. Wendy Straatmann, vice-president, Technical Services, U.S. Gas Operations, is one leader who understands how our unconscious biases can inadvertently affect our behaviours in the workplace and is an advocate for becoming more aware of the unconscious biases we all hold.

TC Energy’s Edson Gas Storage holds up to 50 bcf (billion cubic feet) of natural gas for delivery throughout Alberta. This facility is located 32 km (20 miles) NW of Edson, Alta.