Forging Ahead
into Winter Trans Mountain Expansion Project update By Deb Draper
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Ian Anderson, President & CEO, TransMountain Corporation.
he Trans Mountain Expansion Project involves installing approximately 980 kilometres of new
pipeline twinning the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. The project includes 12 new pump stations, 19 new tanks added to existing storage terminals, and three new berths at Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C. Once in service – expected by December 2022 – pipeline capacity will go from approximately 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. Two of the three berths at Westridge Marine Terminal will be complete by then, and the third will come into service after construction. In a press release for the third quarter 2020 financials, president and CEO of Trans Mountain Corporation, Ian Anderson, stated, “The end of August marked a full year of re-started construction on the Expansion Project, and we are on-track with
“The end of August marked a full year of re-started construction on the Expansion Project, and we are on-track with the budget and schedule.
the budget and schedule…Work continued in B.C. along the pipeline corridor in the North Thompson and B.C. Interior regions and at the Lower Mainland terminals with foreshore expansion at the Westridge Marine Terminal and preparation work for tunnel boring and installation of
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Resource Connector North 2021
