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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.