One of the bigger engineering challenges is boring a 2.6-kilometre tunnel through Burnaby Mountain.
to work on the foreshore of Westridge Marine terminal.
Trans Mountain also brought in specialized marine barge-crane operators from the U.S. “So we brought in Kiewit Bonatti Group to help us get through the steep slopes on that piece of it.” “We’re running grades of 30 degrees up there,” said Dean Palin, head project director for the TMX project.
For that section, Trans Mountain has contracted Kiewit and an Italian company, Bonatti. Much of the work is being done by Canadian contractors, although there are a few points along the pipeline’s route that pose some engineering, geotechnical and construction challenges that require expertise not found in Canada.īurying a pipeline in the steep mountainous terrain between Hope and the Coquihalla Summit, for example, requires international technical expertise and specialized equipment. The pipeline-twinning project is broken into nine sections or “spreads.” Spread 1 out of Edmonton is 94 per cent complete, whereas work on the Fraser Valley – Spread 6 – hasn’t even started yet, as the company is still waiting for the Canadian Energy Regulator to issue permits from detailed route hearings. The completion rate really varies spread by spread.” We have 182 kilometres of pipe in the ground. “Overall, we’re at just over 30 per cent complete on the project, and that’s as of mid-June. manager of communications Ali Hounsell in a recent progress update. “The terminals are really some of the big meat of the work,” said Trans Mountain Corp. About 1,900 are concentrated in the Lower Mainland, with much of that manpower focused on expansions of the Burnaby tank farm and Westridge Marine Terminal. At the end of May, the project alone accounted for 9,000 workers in Alberta and B.C. It will add a second pipeline to the existing one, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, increasing its capacity to 890,000 barrels per day from 300,000.Ī total of 13,000 people have been hired since construction started. The $12.6 billion Trans Mountain pipeline twinning project is one of four major energy-related construction projects underway in B.C. Twinning a 1,150-kilometre long pipeline is no mean feat of engineering, especially considering that the last 2.6 kilometres pipe has to be threaded through a mountain. The NEB received comments from the City of Burnaby. The NEB asked for comments on the variance application from any interested person or group. The status of these conditions is available on the NEB’s interactive conditions tool. In May, 2016 the NEB recommended that the Federal government approve the Trans Mountain Expansion Project subject to 157 conditions. Trans Mountain has now fulfilled these conditions. Conditions #22 and #24 cover updated risk assessments and secondary containment at the Burnaby Terminal.Ĭondition #9 is related to the company’s Quality Management Plan as it applies to the entire project. The NEB also released two letter reports today for Conditions 22 & 24 and for Condition 9. While the company may now begin work at the Burnaby Terminal, the NEB is still assessing condition compliance and the company is not yet authorized to begin building the pipeline itself. The company will also increase the amount of space between the tanks and reconfigure the secondary containment system at the tank farm in order to reduce the risk of fire. On March 1, 2017, Trans Mountain applied to the NEB to reduce the diameters of five of the 14 new tanks and the overall capacity of the facilities by 50,880 m³ (320,000 bbls). The decision says that the changes will significantly improve safety at the terminal, which is the Trans Mountain Pipeline System end point.Īs part of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, the company will build 14 new oil storage tanks at its tank farm at the Burnaby Terminal. The three decisions allow Trans Mountain to begin construction at the Burnaby Terminal, subject to any other permits or authorizations which may be required. The National Energy Board (NEB) approved a variance application Friday from Trans Mountain ULC to change its expansion plans for the company’s Burnaby Terminal, according to a press release.
NEB still assessing condition compliance, company not yet authorized to begin construction on pipeline
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