How do you fit 14 months of construction into nine? Not with a time machine, but with hard work, ingenuity and innovation like recently seen on the 2021 NGTL System Expansion Project. The project will add a significant amount of pipeline to the NGTL system in Alberta and three 30-megawatt compressor station unit additions at Beiseker, Nordegg and Didsbury.

On May 31, 1940, more than a year before the U.S. entered World War II, Manufacturers Light and Heat Company purchased nine acres of land along Connoquenessing Creek in Ellwood City, Pa., around 40 miles north of its Pittsburgh headquarters.  The plan was to build a 1,000-hp compressor station to support the expansion of two nearby natural gas pipelines. Market demand in the region was growing fast, and the company needed to keep up. As it turned out, the project couldn’t have come at a better time: By the end of 1945, the station’s horsepower had doubled, and a post-war economic boom was on the horizon.

Brandy Bruckner, Associate, U.S. Natural Gas Project Technical Services team, does just that and thrives on being involved with her community. It allows her to express her compassion and love for giving back to others. For Brandy, volunteering has opened her eyes to how fortunate she is.