Bechtel Corp. has been recruited as a candidate to build the delayed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia.

Project sponsor Pieridae Energy Ltd. said Wednesday that Bechtel accepted an assignment to review the eight-year-old export proposal and present an execution plan by March 31.

The agreement also requests a lump-sum price proposal for a complete engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract by May 31.

If an agreement is reached, Bechtel would replace KBR Inc., which dropped out of LNG facility work as the Covid-19 virus pandemic and soft commodity prices depressed the oil and gas industry earlier this year.

The pandemic also inflicted the latest in a series of setbacks on Goldboro LNG.  In April,...