“Construction continues to advance on the Woodfibre LNG facility, including work on foundations for the LNG processing equipment and modules expected to arrive at the site in 2025,” Woodfibre LNG said in an update on Tuesday.
The company said that current work includes blasting and concrete pouring installation of rock anchors.
Blasting of the project site slopeside / rock wall continues to create space for the installation of the future permanent LNG export terminal.
Woodfire LNG said that all blasting had been and will continue to be, carried out during daylight hours.
The project has a noise exemption variance permit from the District of Squamish, as some works are required to continue past noise bylaw hours.
“Night work will continue throughout December, including marine pile installation using a vibratory hammer, formwork, concrete pours, and site maintenance, including erosion and sediment control,” the JV said.
Moreover, Woodfibre LNG is limited to conducting in-water works during the marine window of least risk under federal and Squamish Nation regulations.
This window opened on August 16, 2024, and will run until January 31, 2025.
“Throughout the remaining marine window, barges will be visible to support marine piling for both the marine offloading facility (MOF), which will accept the facility’s large modules; and the installation of the first permanent piles for the export terminal and floating storage tanks (FST),” Woodfibre LNG said.
Woodfibre LNG also said that pile driving is progressing on both the MOF and FST and is expected to continue to the close of the marine window.
According to Woodfibre LNG, all non-local project workers are housed on the floatel, and transportation to and from the floatel is from the lower mainland (Vancouver).
McDermott
Woodfibre LNG began construction of its LNG export facility in September 2023.
The facility, which will have a capacity of 2.1 mtpa and storage of about 250,000 cbm, is expected to be completed in 2027.
In November 2021, Woodfibre LNG awarded the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction (EPFC) contract to McDermott.
After that, the LNG terminal developer issued a notice to proceed to McDermott in April 2022 to start work on its LNG terminal.
Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan (QMW), a joint venture consisting of US contractor McDermott and China State Shipbuilding Corporation, started building the first module for Woodfibre LNG last year.
QMW will build 19 modules for Woodfibre LNG and plans to complete the project in the third quarter of 2025.
Besides McDermott, Woodfibre LNG previously also awarded a contract to Siemens Energy to work on the all-electric plant.
BP will take all of LNG volumes
In September last year, Woodfibre LNG signed the third supply deal with UK-based energy giant BP for volumes from its export plant in British Columbia.
With the additional contract to offtake 0.45 million tonnes of LNG per year (mtpa) for 15 years on a free on board (FOB) basis, all of the LNG production from the Woodfibre LNG export facility is committed for sale to BP.
BP said that firm offtake totals 1.95 mtpa of LNG, and the remainder are on a “flexible offtake basis.”
In addition to securing LNG offtake rights from the project, BP will provide transportation of gas to the Woodfibre LNG export facility during the 15-year contact term.
The facility will have a capacity of 2.1 mtpa.
