Workforce grows on Canadian pipeline project
The workforce on the Coastal GasLink project in BC, the 670-km pipeline that will deliver natural gas to the Anglo-Dutch Shell-led LNG Canada terminal at Kitimat, grew to more than 4,500 at the end of July, CGL said in an August 20 construction update.
That surpasses the previous peak of 4,016 workers in October 2020, and the number is expected to continue growing into September and October.
|
Advertisement: The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) NGC’s HSSE strategy is reflective and supportive of the organisational vision to become a leader in the global energy business. |
With its workforce peaking, CGL has opened the last of its 12 accommodation centres and is ramping up its community workforce advisor programme, which is designed to ensure smooth relations between pipeline workers and the local communities near where they work.
Construction is nearly a third complete and all stages of construction are now underway, CGL said. Overall progress – including engineering, procurement and construction activities – is nearly 48% complete.
Still, progress is uneven across the route’s eight construction sections. Section 1, which extends 92 kilometres west from the Wilde Lake compressor station north of Groundbirch to south of Chetwynd, shows 88% of pipe in the ground, while Section 4, covering 93 km between north of Prince George to northwest of Vanderhoof, in BC’s north-central Interior, shows 90% of pipe in the ground.
But Section 7, the site two winters ago of confrontations between Wet’suwet’en First Nation supporters and CGL workers, has yet to see any right-of-way graded or pipe laid. Section 7 covers 78 km, from south of Houston to north of Morice Lake.