Construction

Construction workers in the energy sector view oil and natural gas jobs as more plentiful and longer lasting, as well as providing better pay, health and pension benefits, than similar jobs in the renewables segment, according to two surveys commissioned by North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). Through the surveys, one quantitative and one qualitative,…

More workers are back at Royal Dutch Shell plc’s ethane cracker site in Western Pennsylvania this week after the state said they were exempt from an order last month shutting down nonessential businesses to curb the spread of Covid-19.

TC Energy Corp. and the Alberta government on Tuesday announced a C$7.5 billion ($5.3 billion) financing agreement and immediate start on construction for the Keystone XL oil export pipeline into the United States.

TC Energy Corp. and the Alberta government on Tuesday announced a C$7.5 billion ($5.3 billion) financing agreement and immediate start on construction for the Keystone XL oil export pipeline into the United States.

High risk of Covid-19 infection in crowded places has led Husky Energy to suspend construction of a C$2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) expansion at its White Rose ocean oil production site, 350 kilometers offshore of Newfoundland.

Energy Transfer LP (ET) said Tuesday Pennsylvania has granted a waiver allowing it to conduct limited work on the Mariner East (ME) pipeline project during broader economic restrictions imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf to mitigate the spread of coronavirus.

Canada’s C$40 billion ($30 billion) inaugural natural gas export project on the west coast has remained on schedule despite the global Covid-19 outbreak, project managers said in an update.

Opponents of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s 2 Bcf/d Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) to move natural gas supply to the Gulf Coast failed to show a level of harm to require a restraining order to halt construction, a U.S. district court judge said Friday.

Native pipeline opponents vowed this week to keep fighting TC Energy Corp.’s Coastal GasLink project across northern British Columbia (BC) despite a permanent court injunction and police enforcement order granted Dec. 31 against interference with construction.