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What’s happening at Hardisty?
The town of Hardisty is a whirlwind of construction activity and a
steady hum of heavy machinery. At the TransCanada Keystone
Hardisty site, workers move purposefully about. Some are
fitting together mammoth oil tanks while others are laying an
infinite ream of colour-coded pipelines that occasionally weave
their way above ground before burrowing back underground
and out of sight.
“There are pipelines running underground and accidentally
damaging one of them could mean a multi-million dollar
lawsuit” says Andrew Foy, WorleyParsonsCord Project
Manager for both the Terminal A brownfield and Terminal B greenfield sites.
It’s not hard to understand Andrew’s caution. Running smack down the middle of the
TransCanada brown field site is a narrow strip of land owned by Husky Energy. Beneath the
surface are Husky pipelines. “We have to take extra precaution to safeguard against hitting one
of the pipelines,” Andrew says.
WorleyParsonsCord is managing the fabrication and field construction portions of the Hardisty
Terminal A brownfield work and Terminal B balance of plant construction at the TransCanada
Keystone Hardisty facility.
Andrew leads a team of 150 workers and subcontractors at both sites. The Greenfield site is
managed by Darcy Pearson and the Brownfield site by Paul Paschinski. The two contracts have
a total value of CAD58 million, and work is scheduled to be completed in June 2013.