TransCanada is expected to build, own and operate a new C$4 billion (US$3.8 billion) natural gas pipeline in British Columbia that will provide feedstock to Shell’s proposed LNG Canada project in Kitimat.

A definitive agreement is still being negotiated.

The 700-kilometre, 1.7 billion cubic feet per day Coastal GasLink, which is expected to be in service ­towards the end of the decade, will also provide options for shippers to access supplies through an interconnection on its Nova Gas Transmission system.