Builders

Natural gas producers and pipeline developers stand warned to make community relations a priority if they advance, as planned this year, a proposal to connect Arctic supplies with a project traversing the native-dominated Mackenzie Valley.

Driven in recent years by a surge of electric power plant construction that is only now subsiding, the accompanying boom in new natural gas pipeline projects and expansions is showing signs of exhaustion, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

Driven in recent years by a surge of electric power plant construction that is only now subsiding, the accompanying boom in new natural gas pipeline projects and expansions is showing signs of exhaustion, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

Canadian pipeline builders and regulators are pointing to the way producers need to go to sustain natural gas reserves and productivity, but the direction is easier to give than follow.

Canadian pipeline builders and regulators are pointing to the way producers need to go to sustain natural gas reserves and productivity, but the direction is easier to give than follow.