Contract let for Bear Head LNG storage

Aug. 24, 2005
Bear Head LNG Corp., a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., signed a contract worth more than $100 million with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. for design and construction of storage tanks for an LNG import terminal in Canada.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 24 -- Bear Head LNG Corp., a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., signed a contract worth more than $100 million with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. for design and construction of storage tanks for an LNG import terminal in Canada.

The Bear Head LNG terminal, planned near Port Hawkesbury on Cape Breton, NS, will serve eastern Canada and the northeastern US.

The project involves a 7.5 million tonne/year LNG terminal with sendout capacity of 1 bcfd. First gas deliveries through the Bear Head terminal are targeted for late 2008 (OGJ, July 25, 2005, Newsletter).