Trans Mountain

Canadian oil and gas producers, service firms and financers predict a “moderate growth” year in 2024 as new overseas export outlets surface on the Pacific coast of British Columbia (BC), according to ATB Capital Markets Inc. The optimism emerged in a survey held from Sept. 18 to Oct. 2 of 26 producers, 30 oilfield service…

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) has reportedly reached “a major milestone” by passing its halfway mark to completion. The oil pipeline system reported that since August 2019, about 20,000 workers cleared 344 miles of right-of-way, laid 247 miles of pipe and made 32 trenchless river and stream crossings. “The way we are constructing this…

Alberta oilsands specialist Meg Energy Corp. reported that it has retained a 20,000 b/d oil shipping contract on the incomplete expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Management confirmed its plans for capacity on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX), whose estimated construction cost has ballooned 70%, while reporting fourth quarter and full-year 2021 earnings. TMX…

Oil and refined products flows resumed Sunday through Trans Mountain Pipeline after a three-week suspension of deliveries as a safety precaution during floods in southern British Columbia. “The restart comes following completion of all necessary assessments, repairs, and construction of protective earthworks needed for the pipeline to be returned to service,” said the Calgary firm.…

Oil and refined products flows resumed Sunday through Trans Mountain Pipeline after a three-week suspension of deliveries as a safety precaution during floods in southern British Columbia. “The restart comes following completion of all necessary assessments, repairs, and construction of protective earthworks needed for the pipeline to be returned to service,” said the Calgary firm.…

Trans Mountain Corp. has won approval from Canadian federal authorities for a route detour to end a prolonged Indigenous territorial and environmental dispute that threatened to delay its C$12.6 billion ($10 billion) Trans Mountain Expansion crude pipeline project (TMX). The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) on Monday authorized the construction change, observing that no opposition had…

Route and construction changes have ended the second British Columbia (BC) native rights dispute that threatened to delay the C$12.6 billion ($10 billion) Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX). Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation dropped years-long opposition after TMX re-engineered the project leg across tribal territory near the U.S. border in the Fraser Valley at Abbotsford, 50…

Work has resumed on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion after a planned two-week pause stretched into a 52-day safety procedure overhaul on the 1,150-kilometer (690-mile) oil conduit across Alberta and British Columbia. “A staged remobilization of the 7,000-strong workforce will begin this week,” the Canadian government-owned pipeline said earlier this month. “The restart process will…

A seven-year dispute has ended in an agreement by Trans Mountain Pipeline to reroute its expansion project by building a bypass around a native rights sore spot in southern British Columbia (BC). The deal, filed late Friday with the Canada Energy Regulator (CER), charts the new course to avoid risking contamination of a subterranean aquifer…