Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and several business leaders from around the state are traveling to Canada in hopes of strengthening and forging new trade opportunities. They’ll leave today and return a week from now.

Mead will tour a coal port in British Columbia and learn more about that province’s export strategy and its opportunities, challenges and limitations.

Another leg of the trip will take Mead to tour Alberta’s oil sands, which would provide the crude carried in the Keystone XL pipeline.

The governor will also meet with provincial leaders in British Columbia and Alberta, talk to coal and rail representatives, visit a company that builds LNG engines, tour the largest hydrocarbon processing center in Canada, and meet with Canadian companies that operate in Wyoming.