A joint venture between Fluor and Yokohama, Japan-based JGC was selected in April as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for LNG Canada’s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.
A New York company and two utilities have a cost-effective solution to the nation’s aging underground infrastructure: a robot that crawls through cast-iron natural-gas pipelines and replaces their deteriorating joints, effectively renewing the pipes for up to 50 years.
The cold weather that swept across the Eastern Seaboard in early January is heating up the debate over the need for a more robust infrastructure to deliver natural gas to New England.