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WorleyParsons Limited has been awarded the detailed engineering, commissioning and construction support for the facilities of the Keystone Pipeline System expansion for TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP. The expansion is complementary to the first phase of the Keystone Pipeline System and, once completed, will serve existing refineries and markets on the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas.
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline System Expansion
“We are delighted that TransCanada has chosen WorleyParsons for the detailed engineering, commissioning and construction support for this major North American pipeline project” said John Grill, Chief Executive Officer of WorleyParsons. “This award reinforces our commitment to Alberta as a major centre for our pipeline business. It allows us to deliver our expertise in crude oil transmission and storage facilities developed over the past thirty-five years.”
The WorleyParsons Edmonton scope includes detailed design for 38 pump stations, 61 remote block valve sites, a one million barrel terminal, a one million barrel expansion to an existing terminal and modifications to a third terminal. Detailed engineering is currently underway and will continue through the various phases of the project until March 2011. The scope also includes construction and commissioning support leading up to the proposed in-service date of December 2012.
The expansion is an approximate 3,200 kilometre (1,980 mile), 36 inch crude oil pipeline that will originate at Hardisty, Alberta and extend southeast through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. It will incorporate a portion of the Keystone Pipeline System to be constructed through Kansas to Cushing, Oklahoma, before continuing through Oklahoma to a delivery point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas to serve the Port Arthur, Texas marketplace.
