Share this Story: Woodfibre takes step closer to West Coast LNG export project with hire of engineers McDermottWoodfibre takes step closer to West Coast LNG export project with hire of engineers McDermott If the project goes ahead it will be just the second in Canada to start work on an LNG export facility Photo by BEN NELMS/National Post filesArticle content CALGARY — Woodfibre LNG took a step closer to building Canada’s second liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project Tuesday as it picked a Houston-based engineering group to build a plant near Squamish, B.C. Article content McDermott has developed what it calls “NetZero Modular LNG strategy” with the goal of cutting emissions substantially at Woodfibre LNG. Keane said the project’s CO2 emissions would have a lower intensity than any LNG project shipping the super-cooled gas off the U.S. Gulf Coast. Article content Wet’suwet’en Nation hereditary chiefs have opposed the under-construction, $6.7-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline connecting the LNG Canada project with upstream gas fields. LNG Canada is still committed to delivering its first LNG cargo to overseas markets by the middle of this decade, a company spokesperson said in a release.

Source: National Post November 23, 2021 14:21 UTC