TC Energy Corp. has awarded six U.S. union contractors $1.6 billion in contracts to build the long-delayed and controversial Keystone XL Pipeline in 2021, to move up to 830,000 barrels per day from the tar sands of Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Neb., where it would connect to pipelines to Illinois and the Gulf Coast.
The companies awarded contracts in late October for the $8-billion pipeline, the focal point of a contentious environmental battle since first proposed in 2008, are Barnard Pipeline of Bozeman, Mont.; Associated Pipeline and U.S. Pipeline, both of Houston; Michels of Brownsville, Wis.; Precision Pipeline of Eau Claire, Wis.; and Price Gregory International of Katy, Texas.