The corporate constructing the Trans Mountain pipeline growth continues to be working to discover a resolution for its newest sudden development problem in B.C.
Crown company Trans Mountain Corp. is presently eradicating the part of pipe it had been trying to drag into the outlet drilled for it within the Fraser Valley between Hope and Chilliwack.
The corporate had been utilizing an engineering method referred to as horizontal directional drilling for that part, however introduced on Monday it had encountered what it referred to as “technical points.”
On Wednesday, an organization spokesperson stated the issues had been associated to an obstruction found whereas trying to drag the pipe into the outlet, and that it’s now assessing choices to take away it.
The Trans Mountain pipeline is Canada’s solely oil pipeline to the West Coast and its growth will improve the pipeline’s capability to 890,000 barrels per day from 300,000 bpd presently.
However the firm has been racing in opposition to the clock because it offers with a wide range of difficulties associated to onerous rock and difficult terrain. The most recent challenges are anticipated to push the pipeline’s anticipated in-service date again from the primary quarter to the second quarter of this yr.
