ABJ - January 12 - TransCanada Corporation has released further details highlighting the thousands of jobs Keystone XL would create for Americans.

The $7 billion oil pipeline is the largest infrastructure project on the books in the U.S. right now. It would create 20,000 jobs, with 13,000 in construction and 7,000 in manufacturing.

Construction of the 1,600 mile pipeline is broken down into 17 U.S. pipeline spreads or segments, with 500 workers per spread, for 8,500 jobs.

Keystone XL also needs 30 pump stations worth tens of millions of dollars. Each station requires 100 workers, for 3,000 jobs. Add another 600 jobs that would be needed for the six construction camps and tank construction at Cushing, Okla.

A project of such magnitude needs construction, management, and inspection oversight, which would create 1,000 jobs, bringing the overall Keystone XL total to 13,000 direct, on-site jobs.

"These are new, real U.S. jobs. 13,000 Americans would be put to work constructing our Keystone XL project," said Russ Girling, President and CEO, TransCanada. "7,000 more jobs would be created in the U.S. manufacturing sector, making the materials needed to build Keystone XL."

Keystone XL would require hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of materials and related services for items such as the steel pipe, the thousands of fittings, hundreds of large valves, fabrication of piping assemblies and structural steel for supports, and thousands of other pieces of equipment used to build such things as transformers for pumping stations, metres to measure the amount of oil delivered, large electric motors for operating pumps and cabling and electrical equipment to connect the vast pipeline monitoring systems.

Construction of Keystone XL is expected to create 7,000 manufacturing jobs. Key support companies include: Welspun (pipe from Arkansas), Cameron (valves from Louisiana), Siemens (pumps, motors and related control equipment manufactured in Oregon, Ohio, and Indiana) and dozens of other companies manufacturing everything from nuts and bolts to complex electrical control equipment.