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The team at Tank News International has come to the end of its first full year of producing printed editions for the tank storage and logistics industries, and what an exciting year it has been. The publication and its supporting website have gone from strength to strength and we have seen our readership grow by thousands over the past 12 months. We have also seen the number of events we attend hit the double figures with our anticipated event attendance being more
than 30 in 2018: GasTech and IP Week being just two of the new events we will be taking our advertisers and editorial submitters news and information to. When it comes to news and features, we have seen that grow accordingly. In this edition we feature even more exclusive interviews with industry leaders such as the Tank Storage Association’s Executive Director, Peter Davidson; Brenntag’s President of UK & Ireland, Russel Argo & COO, Brenntag UK & Ireland, Richard Ward and Contanda’s President and CEO, G.R. (Jerry) Cardillo. We are also delighted that our Market Focus feature has been submitted by Ellen Ruhotas of the Ratio Group. Also new to this edition are two regular columns from S&P Global Platts and Reynolds Training Services – we are honoured to have them both join us and look forward to quarterly columns featuring in Tank News International. News in this edition includes: In the Storage terminal industry we cover
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news of Inter Terminals Seal Sands expansion and Shell selling a major stake in Woodside. In the Tank Container section, we feature an exclusive interview with the team behind TankContainerFinder.com. In Road Tankers, we cover Abbey Logistics’ new business focus. In Shipping we cover CRYO Shipping’s LNG transport service. In Ports we learn about plans to widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and in Rail we cover SAVVY’s work to equip 6,000 wagons. All this and much more sits alongside our regular features on New Products & Technologies, Roles & Responsibilities, Event Previews & Reviews and Company Profiles. We hope you enjoy the Winter edition of Tank News International.
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Contents MA R K E T F O C U S
S tor ag e T er m in a l s
Ta nk Conta iners
16 & 18 IMO 2020: What does this mean for the storage industry?
25 CLH Aviación… / GTT Provides… 26 Odfjell Singapore… 28 & 30 Listening to member feedback… 33 First import for Kock and Vopak… 34 Inter Terminals’ Seal… 35 CST Industries acquired… 36 New LNG… / KOGAS to… / Nearly 30… 37 AGL announces… 39 & 40 Saving millions… 40 Philippine National Oil… 41 Saudi Aramco and SABIC 42 CB&I’s storage project… 43 Mobil to restore Lyttelton… 45 Shell to deliver LNG… 46 & 47 Multi-million Euro investments… 48 Setting sites on… 50 Implico’s IFLEXX… 51 Jacobs awarded… / Saudi Aramco to buy… 52 Eight LNG tanks… / Valero Energy… 54 & 55 Fujairah: continued growth… 56 Rosneft acquires… 58 Madesta diversifies… 60 VTTI Energy partners… / Major corporations… 62 & 63 Brenntag Blending Solutions’… 64 Ichthys LNG Project’s… 65 INEOS acquires pipeline… 66 IndiaOil to acquire… 68 Wison granted AIP… 69 Wärtsilä achieves mechanical… 70 ExxonMobil acquires… / National Oil Corporation… 73 Tarsco Mexico… / Shell sells major share… 74 & 77 Well on the way… 78 Bechtel and Tellurian… 80 Pin Oak Corpus Christi acquires… 82 & 83 Emerson Global Users… 84 Houston Fuel Oil Terminal… 86 ArcLight Capital and BP… 89 & 90 Fourchon LNG kicks off… 92 & 94 A Better Insulation Solution… 94 CRV Refining… 96 Trafigura to receive… / CB&I wins… 98 Peninsula Petroleum… / Tarsco wins… 100 Husky Energy… / Blackline Partners… 101 Blueknight Energy Partners… 102 Cameron LNG… /Texas International… / Veresen applies… 103 Contada growth…
107 JOPM and Flaxfield… 108 Kerry Logistics wins… 109 DEPOT software… 110 & 111 TankContainerFinder.com… 112 HCCE and CONDACO… / Sasol equips… 114 Bertschi sends 30,000th… / Eurotainer and Bureau… 115 GEM growth… 116 WEW launches… 117 Odyssey Logistics… / New tanks for… 118 Bayer chooses HOYER… 121 Quala acquires… 122 Albatross working with Slay…
new tec h no lo g y
20 & 22 Emerson, MFE, Rotork, United Electric Controls, WABCO
S h i p p in g
136 137 138 140 141
Safe and easier LNG transfer… INPEX-operated Ichtys… / Wärtsilä to supply… CRYO Shipping’s solution… Stena Bulk names… Philly Shipyard… / Nordic American…
Ports
142 143 144 145 146
Associated British Ports… Gazpromneft-Lubricants… / Duqm Port… MAN Cryo to supply… Port of Corpus Chrsti… LNG Bunkering at…
co m pa n y p rofi l es
158 Varac / EKATO 159 Implico / MESA
R o l es a nd R es p onsi b i l ities
156 & 157 The latest appointments and promotions in the industry
TAL E S F R O M A T R A D E S H O W
44 API Expo
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R oa d Ta nkers
123 Certas Energy uses… 124 Fluxys LNG… / Liquid Concept… 125 TCL Tanker Rental… 126 NWF Lincolnshire… 127 Phillips 66 scoops… 129 Abbey Logistics to focus… 130 Greenergy’s major… 131 NTTC emphasises… 132 Dupré selected… / Crowley opens… 134 Andeavor merges with… / Wabash National…
RAIL
148 VTG Quarter two… / DB Cargo U.K.’s… 149 SAVVY equips 6,000… 150 SLSI’s PHMSA grant… / Port Freeport celebrates… 151 S&S solution to growing… / Genesee & Wyoming… 152 Unified Cargo Processing… / TYR Energy Logistics…
EVENT REVIEW
153 Tank Storage Asia… EVENT PREVIEWS
154 10th annual NISTM… 155 European Oil Storage… /International Petroleum…
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MA R K E T F o C U S
IMO 2020 What does this mean for the Storage Industry?
In October 2016, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) announced a cut to sulphur limits for marine fuels worldwide from 3.5% to 0.5% starting from January 1, 2020.
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his follows their drive, commenced in 2008, to limit global marine sulphur emissions in a stepwise approach after research was published which showed that particulate matter emitted from ships was responsible for 60,000 cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths annually. Here Ellen Ruhotas from the Ratio Group discusses just how these changes are set to affect the storage industry. From the early 19th century until the third quarter of the 20th century, steamships gradually eliminated sailing ships from
steamships, both in terms of numbers and gross tonnage. With the oil shock of the 1970s high sulphur fuel oil become the most economical, marine fuel standard, and by the start of the 21st century, motor ships accounted for 98% of the world’s fleet.
What is a Marine Fuel? commercial shipping. Coal dominated as a Fuel used by shipping vessels, generally shipping fuel until 1920, when marine oils referred to as bunker fuels, all start their started to take over. By the end of World life as components of the refining War II, 25% of the world’s ocean-going of crude oil which are blended fleets were engine driven, but into two broad categories of using lower sulphur marine fuels – distillate marine fuels fuels. Combustion of high Sulphur and residual fuel oils. These sulphur marine fuels resulted cuts from grades are further divided in high acidity damaging the 3.5% to 0.5% based on their density piston engines. It wasn’t until and viscosity, and 14 other the mid 1950s that innovations specifications which are defined in engine design and lubricants by the International Standard for allowed the effective use of high Marine Fuels (ISO 8217). sulphur marine fuels. By the second half of the 1960s, motor ships overtook Continued on page 18 TA NK NE WSI NTE R N ATION A L .C OM
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