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Welcome to the second of four exciting Tank News International editions of 2018, and one of our biggest to date. Summer is here and not only brings with it an abundance of green and (hopefully) some holidays but also a balancing oil market.
This edition will see input from experts throughout the industry across all six sectors - Storage Terminals, Road Tankers, Tank Containers, Ports, Shipping and Rail.
We are proud to have a presence at, and be media partners with, a range of highprofile storage & logistics conferences and trade shows - all of which are previewed in this edition. As our magazine continues to grow and develop, so has our team, with the addition of Katerina Kerr, our new Editor, who by now has officially taken the reigns. Katerina joins us with over a decade of experience in the industry as both a Journalist and from a technical background in logistics and operations at companies including APM Terminals and Glencore Agriculture. Our strategy for growth in 2018 remains unchanged - we are working hard to build partnerships with industry exhibitions and conferences and focussing on various communication channels to share news as and when it breaks.
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This issue is full of articles and case studies we hope you enjoy. The Storage Terminals section covers exciting developments from ALS and CEA Systems, Varo, Genscape, ADNOC, Saudi Aramco, Renish Group, and Buckeye to name just a few. In Tank Containers you will find the latest developments in technology and learn how the market is evolving. Road Tankers brings you news from Newson Gale, Suttons, Shell, and CIG Logistics. Meanwhile, Shipping, Ports, and Rail cover topics such as insurance, expansions, exports, new technologies and market developments. We hope you enjoy reading the issue on the beach in the sun, as much as we have enjoyed putting it together. We wish you a wonderful rest of the year, and see you in Autumn.
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Contents MARKET FOCUS
S TO R AG E T E R M I N A L S
TA N K CO N TA I N E R S
15 & 17 ARA Tank Terminal Market Review
22 & 24 Fuelling China’s growth 26 Global oil and production to… 29 & 31 Unique & innovative services… 33 & 35 Point Loma: effective secondary… 37 & 38 HES International bought… 41 Fujairah: The Middle East’s… 42 & 43 Preventing tank fires using… 44 Approval given for Anadarko… 46 HES Botlek… / PK government… 49 What’s your response to emergency… 51 Medical expert praises crushed. 52 Petrobras to sell four oil refineries… 55 Turkish-Qatari firms… / Blastco opens… 57 IBIA’s best practice for suppliers… 59 Jask Port mega oil tanks… 61 SPI and Mitsubishi… / Pengerang deepwater… 63 VARO announces acquisition… 64 Chinese oil companies call for… 67 & 69 Easily installed durable armouring… 71 & 72 Methods for armouring containments… 74 New photo measurement software… 77 - 81 Backwardation and bottlenecks… 83 Gulf of Mexico… / First LNG exported… 85 SemGroup continues… / DTN acquires… 87 Klaipedos Nafta signs… / Vopak to construct… 89 Aramco and Indian consortium to develop… 91 & 93 Samsung Engineering awarded… 93 IEnova to develop a marine… 95 LNG producers authorised… 97 & 99 Petronas & Saudi Aramco form… 99 Petrofac expands activity… 101 Pakistan’s largest… / Mitsubishi Corp… 103 Earth Wealth Energy to construct… 105 New gauging method drives down… 107 Renish Petrochem to enlarge activities… 108 & 110 Opportunities for PDP’s versus… 110 New remotely-operated tank crawler… 112 U.S. underground natural gas… 114 Buckeye forms JV to develop… 116 Buckeye Texas Terminal loads… 118 Hands-on approach to MFL… 121 What to consider when selecting… 123 & 124 Cleaning up on DEF… 127 ETP and Satellite form Orbit… 128 Marathon Petroleum Corp to become…
130 Bertschi head honoured with… 131 HOYER takes on further range… 133 Europe LNG Tank… / ITCO reminds… 134 Brenntag acquires Raj Petro… 135 New mobile app for tank operators… 136 Major platform… / Bruhn Spedition… 138 H.Essers takes over container… 139 New quick-connect overfill… 141 Brenntag reports a broad-based… 143 APC holds tank container summit… 145 Industry dominated by a small… 146 Crowley loads first LNG for Eagle…
SHIPPING
163 LNG-fuelled bulk carrier R&D… 164 Delivery of world’s first LNG-fuelled… 165 Panama Canal growing LNG… 167 ABB to equip two next-generation… 168 & 169 Hull, cargo & offshore…
PORTS
171 The west coast of Canada… 172 British Ports Association calls… 173 Deepening of Nieuwe Waterweg… 174 Port of Gothenburg enhances… 175 Investment in Africa’s ports… 176 German ports join movement… 177 Construction of… / Fluxys to add… 178 Port of Rotterdam Authority invests…
CO M PA N Y P R O F I L E S
194 Newson Gale / NACE International 195 Crane CPE/Crane Co. / EMP Defense
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
185 Roles and Responsibilities
TA L E S F R O M A T R A D E S H O W
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N E W T E C H N O LO G Y
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R OA D TA N K E R S
147 & 148 Static grounding protection… 150 Suttons tankers… / Abbey Logistics… 151 WABCO extends cooperation… 152 TINE boosts logistics performance… 154 Kerry Logistics… / The 202 vision for… 157 Dakota Mobile launch dedicated… 158 Hatz wastes no time in providing… 159 CIG buys transload terminals… 161 Shell, Toyota move forward with…
RAIL
180 DB Schenker… / UWC operational… 181 VTG posts positive 2017 revenues… 182 Union Pacific chosen to handle… 184 Trig Sensor certified by AAR
EVENT REVIEW
186 & 187 FPS Expo 2018… 188 20th NISTM… / StocExpo Europe…
EVENT PREVIEWS
189 38th ILTA… / Tankbank 2018 190 FECC… / Gas Indonesia Summit… 191 Gastech 2018… 192 Argus Mediterranean… / Global Petroleum… 193 Tank Storage Asia…
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ARA TANK TERMINAL MARKET review
not move, this objective is hard to achieve and business activity will be low. The other factor mentioned above is the shape of the forward curve. In this respect a contango and backwardation can be distinguished. In a contango spot prices are lower than forward prices. In this situation a profit can be made by buying on the spot market at the low price and selling on the forward market at the higher price. The product When analysing tank terminal however needs to be stored during the markets one needs to keep in mind that period between delivery date of the this business is tied closely to the trading spot transaction and delivery date of business. Traders need tank terminals to the forward transaction. As a result in a facilitate their physical operations. So in contango there is more demand for tank order to gauge the tank terminal market storage capacity and inventory levels one can best look at trader’s business will be high. A backwardation is exactly model and behaviour. The central the other way around. In this situation it question here is: what circumstances is profitable to sell as much inventory as make having access terminal capacity a possible in order to take advantage of profitable position? high spot prices. Inventory levels will In oil product trading markets be low and there is less need for two important drivers of profits tank capacity. are price volatility and the Both volatility and the shape of the forward curve. TIED shape of the forward curve Price volatility refers to how CLOSELY were advantageous for the much oil prices move up and TO TRADING terminal market in the period down on a daily basis. When between the end of 2014 volatility is high, prices change and the end of 2016. However, more rapidly and more profits after OPEC and Russia coordinated can be made in such a situation. efforts to reduce overproduction of Profits are made by ‘buying at a low price and selling at a high price’. If prices do Continued on page 17
The ARA (Amsterdam – Rotterdam – Antwerp) region is one of the main global commodity trading hubs. Its central location within Northwest Europe and its excellent connectivity to local and global markets have attributed to this position.
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hen we zoom into liquid bulk markets the above statements certainly apply: ARA plays a central part in global petroleum, chemicals and vegetable oil markets. There are very few international commodity traders that do not have a presence in ARA. In order to support liquid bulk traders a massive amount of tank storage capacity is located in ARA. A lot of that capacity is managed by independent terminal operators. These terminal operators rent out tank capacity to third parties, the majority to traders and the biggest market segment is the petroleum products tank storage market. Here, Patrick Kulsen, Managing Director of PJK International, examines recent developments and outlook for the ARA tank terminals market for storing oil products.
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