The Bish Forest Service Road will reopen to the public on March 1, 2015. With the upgrades created by the Chevron-led Kitimat LNG project, the single lane logging rough logging is now a high quality gravel “resource road.” The first 12 kilometres of the road will be open “to provide public access to connecting roads, recreational […]
A job for a "construction area superintendent" for both the Kitimat LNG plant and the Clio Bay restoration appeared on job sites in the world wide web on October 1. The posting expires on December 31. The job was originally posted by Brunel Energy, a consulting firm that describes itself as a company that "provides […]
District of Kitimat Council tonight (March 4, 2013) approved building permits for the KMLNG work camp at the old West Fraser Eurocan paper mill site. The first phase of the camp, called 1A will have 155 beds, followed by a second camp, called 1B with 145 beds. Council also approved a second phase, Camp […]
The Apache Corporation website has a posting for a construction manager for the Kitimat LNG project. The posting says the job will initially based in Houston, Texas, with the manager coming to Kitimat sometime in the future. The posting calls for the manager to provide an overall construction plan, co-ordinate and control the construction project […]
AluminumRio Tinto Alcan president primary metals, Jean Simon, announces the go-ahead for the Kitimat Modernization Project at ceremony at the plant in Kitimat, Dec. 1, 2011. (Robin Rowland/Northwest Coast Energy News) "It's a go." The "go" meant that the Rio Tinto Alcan board had finally approved spending $2.7 billion for the long awaited Kitimat modernization […]
Kitimat Updated Nov. 15, with Shell statementThe Chinese company that bought the plant and equipment at the Methanex site in Kitimat has cancelled the dismantling contract according to the company that was doing the work. Blue Horizon Industries of Red Deer, issued a news release early Monday, Nov, 14, saying that Ko Yo Development had […]
Editorial In the past few days there has been a lot of comment from politicians, pundits, columnists and business analysts about "fast tracking" the Northern Gateway pipeline project now that the United States has postponed approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. If anyone wanted proof that these people are completely out of touch with reality, […]
Energy The Hart Energy E&P (exploration and production) newsletter is reporting that an Overland, Kansas based company, Black & Veatch, a multi-billion dollar, employee-owned engineering firm founded in 1915, is beginning front end engineering (FEED) for the second proposed Kitimat liquified natural gas facility, BC LNG. Although no information appears on the Black & Veatch […]
Daily Commercial News and Construction Record Liquid natural gas exports will need infrastructure push A growing number of energy industry players are looking to connect plentiful supplies of natural gas on this side of the Pacific with ravenous demand on the other. It will be costly and complicated to link production from northeastern British Columbia's […]