TransCanada Corp. (TRP) may be able to win approval of its Keystone XL pipeline in six to nine months as the company negotiates with Nebraska and U.S. officials over a new route, Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling said.  More »

Enbridge Inc. agreed to pay $1.15 billion for ConocoPhillip’s 50 percent share in the Seaway pipeline and will reverse the flow on the line to carry crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Texas coast.  More »

TransCanada may begin construction of a portion of Keystone XL pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast by early next year after discussing the option with the State Department, a company executive said to Reuters.  More »

A segment of El Paso Corp.’s Tennessee Gas natural gas pipeline caught fire in southeastern Ohio, said Jill Harris, director of the Athens County Emergency Management Agency.  More »

ConocoPhillips says it plans to sell its interests in two pipeline companies for a total of $2 billion.  More »

Federal safety regulators disclosed problems Tuesday with oil and other hazardous liquid pipelines at seven major river crossings and hundreds of smaller crossings in Montana and northern Wyoming — problems that could put the lines at increased risk of failure.  More »

Sugar Land Rep. Pete Olson and other Republican lawmakers are urging the Obama administration to reverse course on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and swiftly approve the controversial project that would carry oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast. Some lawmakers are also considering legislation that would force the State Department to swiftly review a new route for the project, with the goal of a final permitting decision before the end of 2012.  More »

The Keystone XL pipeline has enemies and friends in the United States, but in Canada, it seems the sentiments might be a bit different.  More »

Canada has stepped up its lobbying after the Obama administration delayed a decision on an oil pipeline critical to the country’s economic future.  More »

The officials said TransCanada would agree to the new route, a move the company previously said wasn’t possible, as part of an effort to push through the proposed $7 billion project.  More »

The Keystone XL pipeline may be the first shovel-ready project buried by foot-dragging.  More »

The White House plan to seek alternate routes for a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline presents a tangle of new problems for the project’s backers, and any of those obstacles could still sink the proposal before the first spade of dirt is turned.  More »