— TransCanada announced Monday it will build the Keystone XL pipeline segment connecting the crude oil supply hub in Cushing to the Texas Gulf Coast, as the company reapplies for a federal cross-border permit to move oil from Alberta, Canada, into the United States.

The company said the $2.3 billion segment from Cushing to Texas will be built as the Gulf Coast Project and should be in service by the middle of next year if federal approvals are granted.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that the administration will make sure federal permitting is acted on “very quickly.” Gov. Mary Fallin said she spoke Monday with a TransCanada official who told her that the project was ready to begin in Oklahoma as soon as the permits are obtained.

“They told me they are shovel-ready,” Fallin said in an interview. She said the construction work would employ more than 1,000 people and that most are expected to be Oklahomans.