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54 Sustainability: a long-term business perspective
Øistein Jensen, chief sustainability officer at Odfjell, looks at the business challenges and opportunities of climate change
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67 Vapour emissions from tank terminals can be avoided: guaranteed Tecam’s José Miguel González looks at the challenges and solutions for gas venting for the tank storage sector
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74 Diagnosing and repairing tank settlement
46 Enabling a hydrogen economy
52 The importance of large-scale storage for the hydrogen economy
86 OSHA’s top regulatory priorities… other than COVID-19
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Port of Amsterdam has focussed on getting all its businesses on board with its plans to become a climate-neutral, 100% sustainable port by 2050
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Floyd Baker from Antea USA explains how a digital twin improves maintenance, reliability, and asset integrity management for storage tanks and terminals
Joe Mentzer from the Steel Tank Institute considers the fundamentals
Salah Mahdy from Howden looks at the options for hydrogen storage and transportation and what needs to happen next
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Didier Wesoly and Louis Londe from Geostock explain the four options for storing hydrogen
78 A satellite solution to energy infrastructure monitoring
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48 Flow batteries boosting the energy transition
58 Force majeure, ESG, and the tank industry
82 A practical approach to liquid terminal design
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Linde Engineering is working on the first commercial hydrogen powered trains and the first hydrogen powered ferry in Norway, and in Belgium the Port of Antwerp-Bruges is almost ready to start using the first hydrogen powered tug boat.
There was much discussion over which hydrogen carrier would play the most significant role, with the consensus being a combination of all carriers, including ammonia and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs), would be needed.
The European Commission, in its new plan, REPowerEU, has doubled the EU hydrogen targets for 2030 to 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen produced annually in the EU by 2030, plus another 10 million tonnes in annual
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Within this issue, on page 46, we hear from the global leader of hydrogen compression solutions, Howden, about the options for hydrogen storage and what needs to happen next. We also speak to Storengy and Geostock about the importance of underground storage for the development of the hydrogen
What we found is that hydrogen is experiencing an unprecedented momentum. More than 30 countries so far have developed a hydrogen roadmap, many projects are already being realised and pipelines are already being built.
Earlier this month, the Port of Rotterdam and a consortium of companies, public agencies and governments pledged that they would be able to supply 4.6 million tpa of hydrogen to European markets by 2030.
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Terminal, Shell, Vopak and VTTI. The first hydrogen and derivatives imports in the Port of Rotterdam are expected to total at least 4 million tonnes as early as next year.
The hydrogen will be supplied through local production and imports, as Europe cannot produce enough hydrogen to meet the projected demands and climate targets by 2030 and 2050.
Thiseconomy.year’s ILTA conference in Houston covers the vital role that terminals will play in the energy transition in North America so I’m looking forward to hearing more from the US perspective.
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COLONIAL PIPELINE FACING FINE OVER HACKING DISRUPTION
The new facility will consist of four storage tanks, each with a capacity of 8,700 m3, two defuelling positions, two loading positions for apron into-plane fuelling units, advanced safety systems and a station for receipt and connection to a future dedicated pipeline designed to reduce local road tanker traffic. Exolum will supervise the design and the financing of a new hydrant system for the airport
The ransomware attack on 7 May 2021 by Russian-linked hacker group DarkSide shut the Colonial Pipeline completely, triggering panic buying and fuel shortages along the US east coast. Colonial Pipeline manually restarted Line 4 on 10 May 2021, before a full restart on
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Spanish liquids logistics company Exolum has won the contract to build an operate a new fuel supply system at Lima International Airport in Peru, to increase its capacity.
boarding piers. These will have 29 fuelling positions and will be connected to the existing system. The company will also introduce sustainable supply and auxiliary vehicles to reduce emissions, and will hire 100 staff.
The US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) may fine Colonial Pipeline Company US$986,400 (€934,280) over the shutdown of its US east coast pipeline in 2021 following a hack.
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The project is expected to cost US$80 million (€77.1 million) by 2025, and will be carried out in several stages. Phase I, to increase capacity of the plant, build the new hydrant system and connect it to the existing system, is already underway, and will be operational in 2025. Phase II will extend the hydrant system with an extra 20 fuelling positions, and will be launched in 2029. Phase III, with a further 27 fuelling positions, is expected in 2036.
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PHMSA has issued a Notice of Probable Violation (NOPV) and Proposed Compliance Order to Colonial Pipeline, after inspections of Colonial Pipeline’s procedures and records turned up multiple probable violations of federal pipeline safety regulations. This includes a probable failure to adequately plan and prepare for manual shutdown and restart of its pipeline system, despite PHMSA warning the company of noncompliance following inspections in 2020. According to the NOPV this failure to plan contributed to the widespread impacts following the cyberattack.
12 May 2021. Normal operations resumed on 15 May 2021. The US Department of Justice later recovered US$2.3 million (€1.89 million) of the US$4.4 million ransom paid to DarkSide.
‘The 2021 Colonial Pipeline incident reminds us all that meeting regulatory standards designed to mitigate risk to the public is an imperative. PHMSA holds companies accountable for violations and aims to prevent any instances of non-compliance,’ says PHMSA deputy administrator Tristan Brown.
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US independent crude oil storage and transportation company Converge Midstream is taking Magellan Midstream to court, accusing it of ongoing anticompetitive practices relating to its Houston Crude Oil Distribution System (HDS).
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its pipelines broadly available to other market participants. In its suit, Converge claims that Magellan is using its dominant position to keep the competition out of the market. Converge wants to stop such practices and is seeking damages that it says could run into hundreds of millions of US ‘Fordollars.yearswe have tried to work with Magellan and for years Magellan has continued to build a monopolistic enterprise, ignoring common carrier laws, protecting and serving their company owned export facility at the expense of others, and illegally devaluing crude oil that leaves their pipeline system. It’s time for an end to those abusive practices,’ says Dana Grams, Converge’s CEO. ‘Not only is Magellan’s conduct illegal, but it also stifles competition, increases costs to crude oil shippers and markets, and raises the cost of gasoline and other refined products for hardworking people across the country at a time when American businesses and families are already struggling with higher energy prices and surging inflation.’
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‘Nova Scotia’s unique geographical characteristics give the region the potential to become one of the most productive renewable and green energy development areas in the world,’ says Buckeye CEO Todd J Russo.
US liquid storage and transportation company Buckeye Partners is to buy Bear Head Energy, which is developing a clean energy project in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Magellan’s acquisitions of pipelines around the Houston area have given it control of ‘the last mile’ of distribution, when products are delivered to end users and export facilities. Under Texas law, Magellan is a ‘common carrier’, which gives it right-of-way on private property, but also requires it to make
The Bear Head project was originally developed as an LNG facility. It covers 251 acres of land and has a 68 acre water lot on the Strait of Canso, one of the most northerly, year-round ice-free ports, with access to markets on the Atlantic side of Canada, the US east coast and Europe. It has all approvals and permits necessary, giving it a ‘significant’ advantage, according to Buckeye. The acquisition is in line with Buckeye’s strategy to focus on low-carbon energy sources.
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It the lawsuit, filed at the State District Court in Harris County, Texas, US, Converge claims that Magellan has systematically shut out and impeded its operations, as well as that of other competitors seeking to use the HDS. These practices, Converge says, will lead to higher energy costs for customers.
Converge has previously taken Magellan to court in Texas, in 2017, to gain access to the HDS. Magellan settled the suit, allowing Converge to connect to the HDS at a single point. Converge says that
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US energy company Energy Transfer has signed two more sale and purchase agreements for its Lake Charles LNG project in Louisiana, US, with Gunvor Singapore and SK Gas Trading.
In April 2021, Energy Transfer signed two SPAs with Chinese firms ENN Natural Gas and ENN Energy Holdings for 1.8 million tpa and 900,000 tpa of LNG respectively, also for the Lake Charles facility. The total amount of LNG contracted from Lake Charles LNG is now 5.1 million tpa.
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Magellan’s ‘elaborate and unreasonable’ demands for the connection meant that it cost double the usual amount for such a project, and that its current practices violate the settlement.
‘Converge is on the right side of the facts and the law. Nobody wanted this dispute to go this far, but Magellan’s ongoing and continuing unwillingness to act in good faith and against the law left Converge with only one option – to challenge Magellan’s actions in court,’ says Benjamin L Bailey of law firm Bailey & MagellanGlasser.has yet to publicly comment on the new allegations.
Energy transfer will supply 2 million tpa of LNG to Gunvor for a period of 20 years, on a free-on-board (FOB) basis with the price linked to the Henry Hub benchmark, plus a fixed liquefaction charge. First deliveries are expected in 2026, subject to a final investment decision (FID) on the Lake Charles project.
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Under the terms of the SPA, Energy Transfer LNG Export will supply SK Gas Trading with 400,000 tpa of LNG, and as with the deal with Gunvor, on an FOB basis with the price linked to the Henry Hub benchmark, plus a fixed liquefaction charge. The SPA has a term of 18 years. Again, first deliveries are expected in 2026, subject to a final investment decision (FID) on the Lake Charles Tomproject.Mason, president of Energy Transfer LNG, says the company is ’pleased with the level of interest’ from international customers and from domestic natural gas producers who will benefit from expanding US exports of natural gas, adding: ‘These factors increase our confidence for taking FID by the end of this year.’
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The Port of Rotterdam and a consortium of companies, public agencies and governments operating there say that they will be able to supply 4.6 million tpa of hydrogen to European markets by 2030.
The unified port provides adds €21 billion to Belgium’s GDP, or 4.5%. It is the largest throughput port for vehicles, has the largest chemical cluster in Europe and is one of the leading container ports (159 million tpa).
The port is also looking at digitalisation. Antwerp has been developing the Nextport digital platform, and this will be expanded to Bruges.
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brings strengths in container handling, breakbulk and chemical products, while Bruges is a major port for RoRo traffic, container handling and the transshipment of LNG. The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has connections throughout the world.
The ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge in Belgium have merged to form the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, which is the largest export port in Europe, with 147 million tpa.
The ambition of the Port of AntwerpBruges is to be the first green energy port in Europe, and it plans to be carbon neutral by 2050. Bruges already hosts an energy terminal through which 50% of European LNG arrives, and this could easily be converted to accept hydrogen imports. Chemical giant Ineos has indicated that it will develop a hydrogen project in Antwerp and the port hopes to attract other green economy and energy transition businesses. Antwerp’s carbon capture, storage and reuse project, Antwerp@C, will see 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 captured from industry by 2025.
The partners say in a joint statement that there are two crucial conditions to
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The partners, including Provincie ZuidHolland, AD Ports Group, GES, HES, Koole Terminals, Maasvlakte Olie Terminal, Shell, Vopak and VTTI, say that their combined efforts will help to limit climate change, increase energy independence and create sustainable wealth, as well as accelerating the development of the hydrogen economy in northwest Europe.
Annick De Ridder, vice-mayor of Antwerp and president of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges said at the launch press conference that the capabilities of the two ports are complementary, and described the move as ‘historic’. Antwerp
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achieving their plans. Firstly, hydrogen must be certified to ensure that imported hydrogen ‘is recognised as a value-adding part of the solution’. Secondly, the financial gap between renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and its derivatives, compared to conventional, carbonemitting alternatives, must be closed.
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Phase 2 will run to 2025. Uniper plans to develop a permanent port solution for the FSRU in parallel to the existing UVG, and provide additional unloading and handling facilities for products for the energy transition, like ammonia, creating socalled Green Wilhelmshaven. Ammonia could be converted to hydrogen at onsite crackers or transported away by rail.
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Nantes-Saint Nazaire Port in western France is expanding its liquid cargo berth at the Montoir de Bretagne bulk terminal with the addition of two new landing stages.
German energy company Uniper has begun pile-driving work at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, for the country’s first LNG terminal.
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Pipeline infrastructure will be necessary to distribute the hydrogen around Europe. Initially this infrastructure will be within the coastal industrial clusters, and then between ports and inland industrial clusters, supplying the likes of steel, chemical and cement plants, and filling stations for trucks and barges.
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The 250 m berth, which was originally built in 1976, handles products including vegetable oils and fertiliser feedstocks. It can receive vessels with a draught of up to 10.5 m. Following the expansion, it will be able to handle two bulk carriers at the same time, up to 200 m long and with a DWT of 60,000 tonnes.
Uniper will invest €65 million in the project, which will have an initial LNG import capacity of 7.5 billion m3 per year, around 8.5% of Germany’s needs. The parties signed a letter of intent to charter two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs). Additionally, the federal government and the state of Lower Saxony signed an agreement to expand Wilhelmshaven into a green energy hub for Germany, which Uniper is supporting with the LNG project and its Green Wilhelmshaven project.
The energy hub will be developed in two phases. Phase 1 will see an FSRU connected to the existing Umschlagsanlage Voslapper Groden (UVG) sea bridge. The UVG will be adapted for this purpose and a ship-toshore interface connecting the FSRU to
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the onsite facilities will be developed, in a project by Uniper and Niedersachen Ports. LNG will be regasified and fed into the German national gas grid. The connection to this system, 28 km away, and the Etzel natural gas storage facility, is currently being developed by Open Grid Europe. Phase 1 is expected to run to late 2022/early 2023.
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‘Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned the world we live in upside down – this is especially true for the energy industry. We are doing our utmost to support the German government in its plan to diversify Germany’s sources of supply for natural gas and, in the long term, also for hydrogen. With our LNG terminal, we are taking an important step – in close cooperation with the German government – towards the desired energy independence,’ says Klaus-Dieter Maubach, CEO of Uniper.
The hydrogen will be supplied through local production and imports, as Europe cannot produce enough hydrogen to meet the projected demands and climate targets by 2030 and 2050. A number of companies are working on launching large scale projects to produce electrolytic hydrogen from North Sea wind power between 2024 and 2026. Together, by 2030, these projects will amount to 2.5 GW of electrolysis, producing 250,000 tpa of green hydrogen. Another project to make hydrogen from refinery gas will take this total to 600,000 tpa. The first hydrogen and derivatives imports in the Port of Rotterdam are expected to total at least 4 million tonnes in 2023.
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The construction work is being carried out by Vinci Maritime and Inland Waterway Construction (VCMF), on alternate weeks to allow the terminal to continue operating.
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The work, which will cost €8 million, is expected to be completed by December 2022. It will significantly increase the capacity of the berth, which is currently operating close to capacity, providing greater flexibility for customers. It will dissociate traffic types that are currently handled on a single landing stage.
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Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC) has broken ground on a new petroleum products import terminal in Darong, Southern Mindanao in the Philippines.
The terminal will have a capacity of 67 million L, and is expected to be operational by Q3 2024. It will be PSPC’s fourth import terminal, and it’s third largest in the Philippines, after the 263 million L Shell Import Facility Tabangao (SHIFT) in Batangas and the 90 million L North Mindanao Import Facility (NMIF) in Cagayan de Oro City.
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PARK BEGINS WORK ON PORT OF NEWCASTLE DIESEL STORAGE
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The new tank, at Park’s Walsh Point terminal, has been part-financed by the A$260 million (€176 million) Boosting Australia’s Diesel Storage fund launched by the Australian government in July 2021 to expand onshore diesel storage by 40% and ensure fuel security. Park expects work on the tank to be completed with the middle of 2023, with the tank operational by the end of that year.
The ceremony to formally launch the project was attended by Park Fuels CEO Brett Fletcher, Australia’s Federal Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor, Liberal candidate for Newcastle Katrina Wark, Park Fuels chief commercial officer Paul Ormerod, and Liberal candidate for Shortland Nell McGill.
Australia’s Park Fuels has begun construction work on a new 30 million L (189,000 bbl) strategic diesel storage facility at Kooragang at the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
The import terminal is expected to support more than 80 new consumer Shell Mobility sites in Southern Mindanao, and ensure business continuity in in the area in the case of storms, floods and other natural disasters.
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The facility itself is a 50:50 joint venture owned by energy company Northern Star Energy Corporation and the construction contractor DMCI Construction and Equipment Resources. The Sta. Cruz Storage Corporation (SCSC) will design, construct, and operate the facility for Shell under an exclusive term contract with an option to extend.
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PILIPINAS SHELL STARTS WORK ON DARONG TERMINALIMPORT
Currently, the 700 bpd of oil produced from the Cliff Head oil field is stored in ASP’s existing 10,000 bbl tank, before being transported to storage at export facilities in Kwinana, but this export route
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will close at the end of April 2022. From May 2022, oil will be stored in ASP’s three tanks and then transported north to the Port of Geraldton, for export to Asian refineries via tanker. CHJV has signed a co-operation agreement with the Port for the exports and together with the refurbished tanks, this will establish a new Perth Basin oil export route, open to third parties as well as the JV partners.
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‘The expenditure of A$2.35 million on oil tank refurbishment is a measure of our conviction and provide certainty that we will continue exporting the oil produced from the Cliff Head Oil Field,’ says Triangle Energy managing director Conrad Todd.
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India’s Economic Times, reports that the projects are part of works to increase IOC’s total storage capacity from 3.16 million tpa to 5.53 million tpa.
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Triangle and Pilot are also considering the development of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at Cliff Head, which would be available to third parties, which could ‘significantly’ extend the life of the CHJV facilities.
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Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is to invest INR 8.4 billion (€101.68 million) in two major projects to expand storage facilities for petroleum, oil and lubricants in the northeast of India.
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Ramesh added that IOC has already completed construction of a greenfield petroleum oil and lubricants facility at Moinarbond near Silchar in Assam, which is expected to be commission in the next few months. Railway tracks are being installed for the bulk movement of fuel.
Cliff Head Joint Venture (CHJV) partners Triangle Energy and Pilot Energy are upgrading two oil tanks at the onshore Arrowsmith Stabilisation Plant (ASP), the first step towards finalising the Perth Basin oil export route.
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In the first of the new projects, IOC will invest INR 5.4 billion to set up a greenfield oil depot at Sekerkote in Tripura. Land clearing works have already begun and construction is expected to begin soon. It is expected to be completed by 2024, according to IOC executive director G InRamesh.thesecond project, ICO will expand its Betkuchi depot in Guwahati. The company has bough 10.67 acres of land for the expansion and will increase the storage capacity from 25 million L to 54 million L, as well as installing new fire water tanks and other facilities.
‘Securing participation from one of the leading players in the domestic ammonia industry is a huge vote of confidence in this game-changing project,’ says H2U founder and CEO Attilio Pigneri. ‘We look forward to working with Orica, the Port of Gladstone, and the Queensland Government to establish Gladstone as a globally leading hub in the emerging green hydrogen and green ammonia export market, and to secure new longterm jobs and economic growth for Central Queensland.’
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ORICA AND H2U JOIN FORCES FOR GLADSTONE GREEN AMMONIA
The two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore opportunities for a domestic green ammonia offtake and supply agreement. H2U would supply green ammonia from its proposed Yarwun plant, part of the H2-Hub, to Orica’s Yarwun manufacturing plant. They will also look at the possibility of developing a largescale green ammonia export terminal at the Port of Gladstone, which would use Orica’s existing ammonia storage capacity at the Fisherman’s Landing Wharf and the associated connecting infrastructure in the Gladstone State Development Area.
H2-Hub Gladstone is expected to cost A$4.7 billion (€3.21 billion) and will produce green ammonia and hydrogen. Its planned capacity of 3 GW of electrolysis and 5,000 tonnes per day of green ammonia production will be powered entirely by new-build solar and wind resources in the Queensland region of the National Electricity Market. It may also improve supplies of renewable energy, with the integration of new renewable generation assets in central Queensland. Front-end engineering and development (FEED) is expected to start by the end of 2022, with a final investment decision in 2023 and operations in 2025.
Australian mining and infrastructure company has teamed up with Asia Pacific green hydrogen firm H2U Group to initiate the first phase of the H2-Hub Gladstone green ammonia project in Queensland, Australia.
The signing of the MoU was attended by Iran’s oil minister Javad Oji, NIORDC CEO Jalil Salari, and BMI managing director Mohammadreza Farzin.
The Shahid Nader Mahdavi terminal will be constructed in in Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan province, and will have 18 tanks with a total capacity of 600 million L. It will be the largest such facility on Iran’s southern coast. The terminal will serve the new Shahid Soleimani and Mehr Persian Gulf refineries as well as other existing refineries, and according to NIRDC will ensure the continuation of production and security of supply in Iran. It will also increase the strategic storage capacity of the country.
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Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority (DPFZA) which hosts Damerjog Industrial Park, and also of Great Horn Investment Holding which is wholly owned by DPFZA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities. The signing ceremony was also attended by The signature of the MOU was attended by Ethiopia’s foreign affairs minister Birtukan Ayano and Ethiopia’s ambassador to Djibouti Berhanu Tsegaye.
Mamo Merhertu, CEO of sovereign wealth fund Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH), and Aboubaker Omar Hadi, chairman of
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The facility is intended to provide storage for oil and petroleum products destined for markets in both countries and will provide transshipment services.
Ethiopian Investment Holdings says that the investment in the oil terminal is the first in a series and will ‘help to relieve one of the major constraints of Ethiopia’s and the region’s economy.’
Ethiopia and Djibouti are to work together to explore joint opportunities to develop an oil storage facility in Damerjog Industrial Park in Djibouti.
It adds: ‘Through Damerjog oil storage facility, Ethiopia and Djibouti have signalled that their relationship has graduated from mere trade to building together. We will recover and usher in a new era of faster, more inclusive and holistic growth.’
ETHIOPIA AND DJIBOUTI SIGN MOU FOR NEW OIL TERMINAL
NIORDC SIGNS MOU WITH BMI FOR IRANIAN TERMINAL
The National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bank Melli Iran (BMI) for a new oil storage facility in Iran.
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The leak was contained by retention tanks, according to Reuters. It did not spill into the surrounding areas and no pollution has yet been detected. A spokesperson told the newswire that it could take a few days to pump the oil back into the tanks. However, according to Dow Jones, the spill could exceed 565,000 bbl, and a source told Direct Infos Gabon that the spill had reached the sea.
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Wakud’s biodiesel plant in in Khazaen Economic City, Barka, began commercial operations at the start of 2022. It uses used cooking oil, collected from catering businesses in Oman such as hotels and restaurants, to produce 500,000 L of biodiesel each month. OOMCO and Wakud will look at the potential of selling different biodiesel blends to commercial and marine customers.
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A number of fuel tanks at an oil storage depot in Bryansk, Russia caught fire at around 2am local time on 25 April 2022. Russian news agency TASS reports that fire and rescue teams were sent to the scene. A spokesperson from Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told TASS that there have been no casualties. Reports suggested that a nearby Rosneft refinery was also on fire, citing videos showing the two blazes posted on Twitter, but this was not confirmed by Russian authorities. An investigation has been launched. Bryansk is near to the Ukrainian border and some unverified reports suggest that the fires are the result of a Ukrainian attack. However, neither the Ukrainian nor Russian authorities mentioned such a possibility.
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Perenco declared force majeure to secure the facilities and prevent any environmental damage. The cause of the spill is not known and Perenco has launched an investigation. The size of the spill exceeds Gabon’s domestic oil production of 200,000 bpd.
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Operations ceased at Pemex’s 330,000 bpd Salina Cruz refinery, following a fire in a gasoline tank on 16 April 2022 which took 24 hours to extinguish. The fire started in the upper part of tank TV-102 in the pumping and storage area of the refinery complex. Processing units in the refinery were gradually shutdown to ensure safety.
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Pemex’s own firefighters and those of the regional emergency unit, Grupo Regional de Atención y Manejo de Emergencias Sur (GRAME SUR), extinguished the flames, and cool the remaining product and tanks. A source told Argus that 33,000 bbl of gasoline burned during the incident. As of 18 April, 26 refinery units remained closed, according to the source.
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Perenco has closed its Cap Lopez oil terminal after a leak of more than 300,000 bbl of oil. The leak, from a storage tank, was contained by retention tanks. It did not spill into the surround areas and no pollution has yet been detected.
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Products: Jet fuel
Comment:
Investment: US$70 million (€65 million)
Comment: Contractor Burns & McDonnell designed and built the facility.
Capacity: 10,000 bbl
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
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Bear Head was originally developed as an LNG project and has all approvals and permits in place.
FUJI VEGETABLE INTERNATIONAL-MATEXOIL, TANK
Comment: A second phase expansion is planned, which will double the capacity.
Enbridge and Humble Midstream are to develop a low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia production and export facility at the Enbridge Ingleside Energy Center (EIEC) in Corpus Christi. The facility will capture up to 95% of its emissions.
Products: Crude oil
Comment: Enbridge acquired the 15.6 million bbl EIEC (formerly the Moda Ingleside Energy Centre (MIEC)) in 2021.
Products: Edible oils
EXOLUM
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Tucson International Airport has opened its new jet fuel storage facility with three 168,000 gallon jet fuel tanks, replacing a 1970s facility, which had eight underground single-walled tanks.
Buckeye is to buy Bear Head Energy in Point Tupper. The site covers 251 acres and has a 68 acre water lot on the Strait of Canso, one of the most northerly, year-round ice-free ports. Buckeye is now planning a large-scale energy production, distribution and export hub.
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Products: Hydrogen and ammonia
COWBOY MIDSTREAM
Investment: US$60 million (€53 million)
ENBRIDGE, HUMBLE MIDSTREAM
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
Cowboy Midstream has built a new crude oil truck offload facility. The Ross Road Terminal is capable of offloading and shipping up to 20,000 bpd of Powder River crude. It is connected to Cowboy’s Powell Lateral II Pipeline, itself connected to a larger transmission system.
Kinder Morgan is planning a renewable diesel hub in southern California, US to enable its customers to aggregate renewable diesel batches (R99) in the Los Angeles area for transport on the SFPP pipeline, creating 15,000 bpd of blended diesel throughput, expected to expand to 20,000 bpd. At its Carson Terminal in Los Angeles, the company is increasing renewable storage capacity. Colton Terminal will become a dedicated renewable diesel terminal, allowing customers to blend renewable diesel with biodiesel and CARB diesel, a specific grade of diesel required by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Kinder Morgan will also modify its Mission Valley Terminal to allow up to 5,000 bpd of renewable diesel throughput. Scotia, Louisiana, US Arizona,
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Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
Products: Aviation fuel
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Products: Renewable diesel
Capacity: 7.8 million bbl
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Nova Scotia, Canada
Capacity: 500,000 gallon (2.27 million L)
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Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
Phase II will add an extra 20 fuelling positions to the hydrant system by 2029. Phase III, with a further 27 fuelling positions, is expected in 2036.
Capacity: 34,800 m3
EverWind Fuels has bought NuStar Energy’s Point Tupper terminal to develop a green hydrogen facility. Its existing infrastructure includes a deepwater ice-free berth, rail access, and storage facility. The hydrogen will be supplied to local and surrounding markets, and used in green ammonia.
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Products: LNG, green fuels
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Fuji Vegetable Oil and IMTT have opened a processing, storage and distribution facility for edible fats and oils, mainly from Southeast Asia and Europe, at the IMTT Avondale terminal. IMTT has built new pipelines to transport the raw materials to seven tanks by Fuji’s facility.
Investment: US$80 million (€77.1 million)
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Completion: US$28.8 million (€26.4 million)
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Products: Green hydrogen
Exolum will build and operate a fuel supply system at Lima International Airport, with four storage tanks, two defuelling positions, two loading positions for apron into-plane fuelling units, safety systems and a connection to a future pipeline. It will design a new hydrant system with 29 fuelling positions connected to the existing system. Phase I will be operational in 2025.
BUCKEYE PARTNERS
Products: Chemicals and petrochemicals
Capacity: 200,000 bbl
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: PPEM, a subsidiary of the National Gas Company (NGC) of Trinidad and Tobago, has bought a natural gas liquids (NGL) terminal in Hull, Texas from Keyera as it seeks to internationalise the business.
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Prumo Logística, which runs Port of Açu, has bought Oiltanking’s 20% share of Açu Petróleo, which operates the Port of Açu’s oil terminal (T-OIL), making it the sole shareholder. T-OIL is the only private terminal in Brazil that can handle very large crude carriers(VLCCs). It has three berths, a licence to move 1.2 million bpd of oil, and handles around 30% of Brazilian oil exports.
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Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Venture Global LNG is developing its fourth LNG export facility, in Cameron Parish, adjacent to its existing Calcasieu Pass LNG terminal. CP2 LNG and will be supplied by the CP Express pipeline.
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Capacity: 20 million tpa
Musket Corporation has bought a refined products fuel terminal in Albuquerque, from Vecenergy, the energy division of US infrastructure group Vecellio.
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HARVEST MIDSTREAM
Products: LPG
The terminals supply less-polluting fuels, compliant with US and European standards for sulphur, particulates and NOx, to the Mexican market and growing demand necessitates the expansion.
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition:
The refinery complex is now run by Acelen, a company set up by Mubadala Capital.
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Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Odfjell is building a 32,000 m3 automated tank bay at Odfjell Terminals Houston (OTH). Bay 13 will have nine tanks, in stainless and carbon steel, increasing the overall capacity of the terminal by 9% to 413,400 m3
Comment: PPEM says that it will be able to access and aggregate LPG supplies to help sustain and grow its markets in Mexico and the US.
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Comment:
Investment: US$35 million (€31 million)
Texas, US
Texas,
Products: Crude oil
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Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Arroyo Investors is to invest in Gasmar,
Comment:
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Products: LNG
Louisiana, US
Comment:
Musket, part of the Love’s Family of Companies, says that the terminal will allow it to better serve its customers in the southwest of the US.
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Nola Oil Terminal is constructing phase one of its terminal in Plaquemines on the Mississippi River. The terminal will be the first in the region capable of handling the New-Panamax and Suezmax vessels, up to 366 m long and up to 170,000 DWT.
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which owns an LPG terminal in Quintero Bay, Chile, importing LPG mainly from the US. It is one of the largest LPG terminals on the Pacific coast of South America.
Blueknight expects the project will be in service during Q4 2022.
ODFJELL
Investment: US$10 billion (€8.9 billion)
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Harvest Midstream is to buy the remaining 25% interest it does not already own in Arrowhead ST Holdings (ASTH), from its joint venture partner. The ASTH system includes around 515 miles (830 km) of pipeline with a throughput capacity of 380,000 bpd, linking Eagle Ford Basin producers and Corpus Christi.
Investment: US$14 million-16 million (€12.4 million-14.1 million)
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Blueknight Energy Partners has bought an asphalt terminal and 200-acre industrial park from an unnamed seller. It will also expand an existing asphalt terminal, including inbound rail logistics, blending equipment for polymer modified asphalt, and additional tank storage.
Comment:
OTH says that the tanks will allow it to relocate and consolidate products of existing customers and optimise the use of current storage capacity for new customers and products.
Capacity: 10 million bbl
Products: Refined fuels
Port of Açu, Brazil
Capacity: 32,000 m3
Comment: Gasmar is additionally building a terminal in Mejillones Bay, expected to be operational in 2022.
PHOENIX PARK ENERGY MARKETING (PPEM)
Capacity: 335,000 bbl
Products: Natural gas liquids
Products: Crude and refined products Investment: US$1.8 billion (€1.6 billion)
Products: Crude and refined products Investment: US$930 million (€887 million)
PRUMO LOGÍSTICA
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: GSEO will add 340,000 bbl of tank capacity at one of its Texas terminals, taking the total to 865,000 bbl. It will increase the rail car unloading capacity, and the draught of the liquid cargo dock.
NOLA OIL TERMINAL
Products: Gasoline, diesel, biodiesel and ethanol
MC BRAZIL PARTICIPAÇÕESDOWNSTREAM
Products: Asphalt
Products: Crude oil
Comment:
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: MC Brazil Downstream Participações, part of the Mubadala Capital group, has bought Petrobras’ Landulpho Alves Refinery complex, including a 333,000 bpd refinery, four storage terminals and 669 km of pipelines.
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