The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that the National Energy Board will push for a shift in standards for pipeline parts after TransCanada and Enbridge discovered some that they were using had been substandard. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe says that the NEB's changes must pass external standards committees which include the pipeline industry and would change the way manufacturers have been designing parts, making production more complicated, NEB chief engineer Iain Colquhoun said. The NEB will set out precise measures after a multiparty workshop in June. "They're big changes in philosophy because the standards that we are [currently] using evolved over many decades," Mr. Colquhoun told Reuters. The changes are unlikely to significantly impact pipeline operators, although parts manufacturers may see some increased costs as they try to meet new requirements. The NEB in April warned about parts from Tecnoforge, a subsidiary of Italy's Valvitalia SpA, and South Korea's TK Corp., but did not name the companies using them. An internal NEB memo, however, named TransCanada as the company using Tecnoforge fittings, while Enbridge was the company using TK Corp. fittings.