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News Power & Industrial Companies Government Project delivery Risk Coastal GasLink crew executes work this summer along steep mountain route in British Columbia in push to complete the 670-km gas pipeline. Owners of Canada’s two major energy pipeline projects recently announced key completion milestones in their long-running construction sagas, but bumps loom. TC Energy said Oct. 30 it has finished construction on the 670-kilometer Coastal Gaslink in British Columbia—spanning two mountain ranges and 800 water crossings, including including all 10 that involved major trenchless technology efforts—to carry natural gas to the giant LNG Canada export terminal now being built in Kitimat. The installation "is the last step before mechanical completion which is well on track for our year-end target," the firm said. System testing is also set to finish by then before pressurized gas is introduced in pipeline sections, with reclamation and other environmental steps to continue into 2024. But delays and cost hikes on the now five-year, $10.6-billion project have strained relations between TC Energy and Shell-managed LNG Canada. TC Energy has blamed the project’s cost doubling since 2018 on a skilled labor shortage, soil erosion and performance issues of some subcontractors. Coastal GasLink has been praised for […]
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