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Transco is to close its gas distribution support office in Mansfield in July, with the loss of 180 jobs. 27-Jan-2005 Transco is to create 400 jobs in Northampton over the next six months, as part of a reorganisation that has also created new administration centres in Warwick and Hinckley. 13-Dec-2004 Transco has won permission to build a liquefied natural gas import facility at the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary, and the first shipments are expected to arrive in early 2005. 08-Apr-2003 Transco is to announce plans for a £200m investment in new gas pipelines in March, including a liquid nitrogen pipeline between Milford Haven and Aberdulais, with work starting in 2005. 28-Nov-2002 Alfred McAlpine has won a £350m contract from Transco to provide utility services in Scotland, Yorkshire and the North West. 30-Sep-2002 Amec has won a £48m contract from Transco to build a gas compression facility at Bathgate, near Edinburgh. 12-Sep-2002 Transco is said to be planning to build a 30km gas pipeline near Middlesbrough, and the £10m project is expected to be put out to tender in September. 04-Jul-2002 Lattice has announced plans to shed 2,400 of the 14,000 jobs in its Transco gas pipeline business, with most of the cuts being in administration and management. 08-Feb-2002 Transco has been ordered by the Health & Safety Executive to speed up plans for the replacement of more than 90,000km of iron gas mains located near buildings. 20-Sep-2001 Transco is planning to upgrade its nationwide gas mains network over the next four years, at a cost of up to £12bn. 19-Apr-2001 Transco is planning to upgrade a gas compressor station in Kings Lynn at a cost of £25m, and bids have been submitted by a number of contractors. 05-Apr-2001 Transco has awarded a contract to Lawrence of Bath to build a £7m 20km pipeline between Pontyates and Bancyfelin to boost gas supplies to West Wales, and work will start in April. 27-Feb-2001 Transco is to invest £60m over the next two years on five major pipeline projects to cope with rising gas demand in Wales. 27-Jul-2000 Transco is planning to create 200 fibre optic telecoms jobs at newly-refurbished offices in Queens Road, Reading, and is currently negotiating a lease on the building. 24-Jul-2000 Transco has awarded a contract to Murphy Pipeline for the construction of a £13m high-pressure pipeline from the Huntingdon compressor station to a gas installation near Bedford. 05-Jul-2000 Transco is investing £10m in a partnership with the government to improve energy efficiency in about 1m homes, which will involve the creation of about 3,000 jobs and training people to install new gas central heating systems and insulation. 09-Jun-2000 Transco is to build a £52m gas pipeline between St Fergus and Aberdeen with the creation of about 450 construction jobs, and the contract has been awarded to a joint venture of Lawrence and Nacap. 25-May-2000 Transco has announced plans to spend £235m creating a national telecoms network that will initially link 12 cities, and the fibre optic cable will run through ducts next to its gas pipelines. 10-May-2000 Transco is forming a £260m telecoms joint venture with SpectraSite of the US, in order to offer mobile phone masts and associated infrastructure to the winners of the third generation mobile phone licenses. 14-Apr-2000 Transco is considering bids from eight teams of contractors to build a £12m gas pipeline between Huntingdon and Bedford. 16-Mar-2000 Morrison Construction has won contracts worth £150m to replace and maintain Transco gas pipelines in the south of England. 23-Feb-2000 Transco has submitted proposals to Aberdeenshire Council for the development of a £50m pipeline between two gas stations at St Fergus and Garlogie, which could create up to 400 jobs. 18-Feb-2000 Transco has awarded a £26m contract to Murphy to build a 25km gas pipeline between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. 28-Jan-2000 Transco is to award three contracts worth up to £72m for the upgrade of its gas pipeline network, including a £40m project to build a 70km pipeline from Aberdeen to St Fergus. 08-Jan-2000 Transco is planning to build a new gas pipeline from Drointon, near Uttoxeter, to Sutton-on the-Hill, north of Tutbury, in order to meet rising demand in the East Midlands. 02-Oct-1999 Transco has awarded a £30m contract to Alfred McAlpine for the construction of a gas pipeline between Mawdesley in Lancashire and Warrington in Cheshire. 02-Sep-1999 Transco has announced a £12m investment in its gas pipeline network in Yorkshire, which will involve laying 133 miles of plastic pipes. 02-Jul-1999 Transco has shortlisted four companies for a £30m gas pipeline project in north London, which will include metering, mains laying, emergency work and other services. 01-Jul-1999 Transco has shortlisted four contractors for a £40m gas pipeline project between Mawdesley in Lancashire and Warrington in Cheshire. 03-Jun-1999 Transco has shortlisted seven companies to operate a new independent UK gas trading market, designed to improve the balance of supply and demand and prevent price manipulation. 04-Mar-1999 Transco has been ordered to change the way it handles applications for connections to its pipeline network, following allegations of anti-competitive practices and a subsequent investigation by the industry regulator. 09-Jan-1999 Transco, the gas pipeline concern, has opened a regional headquarters for the north-west in Bolton, employing about 300 staff. 16-Oct-1998 Transco has awarded a £45m contract to Kennedy to replace gas mains in Scotland's Central Belt. 10-Sep-1998 Transco is to increase gas transport prices by an average 1.3% for domestic users and 2.9% for industrial users in October, prompting criticism from industrial users that the industry regulator is unfairly favouring domestic users. 31-Jul-1998 Transco is to hold gas prices below that allowed by its price control formula, despite the fall in volumes through its pipelines caused by the mild winter. 28-Apr-1998 The gas industry regulator has outlined plans to further reform the market over the next few months, with priorities being to unbundle Transco's gas metering monopoly and to introduce a gas spot market. 04-Mar-1998 Transco, the gas pipeline operator, is planning to cut 2,500 jobs by the end of 1998, partly blaming the tough new price controls demanded by Ofgas. 06-Sep-1997 BG's Transco subsidiary is to cut its gas pipeline transmission prices, resulting in an average price cut for consumers of £29 per year, following a decision by the Monopolies & Mergers Commission to endorse a demand by Ofgas. 19-Jun-1997 Northern Electric has agreed a £1m deal with Transco, the British Gas pipeline business, in which it will read the gas meters of about 11,000 commercial and industrial customers. 27-Nov-1996 British Gas is trying to resist tough price controls on Transco, the pipeline business which is to be demerged, by offering to share future profits with customers. 22-Mar-1996
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