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Trans Mountain Corp will begin line fill in February on its long-delayed Canadian oil pipeline expansion and expects it to be in service in the second quarter, a company executive said on Wednesday.
The C$30.9-billion ($23.05 billion) expansion will nearly triple the flow of crude on Trans Mountain from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast but has been plagued by years of delays and cost overruns.
The start-up of the expanded pipeline is expected in early April and it will ramp up to full capacity by the end of the year, said Jason Balasch, a senior director at Trans Mountain, speaking at the Argus crude summit in Houston.
The main challenge remaining with the expansion is installing a section of the pipeline through a mountain, which the company expects to complete early next week.
A portion of the pipeline will be filled in February and the full pipeline will be filled with crude oil in March, Balasch added.
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