TANK TERMINAL UPDATE
TANK TERMINAL UPDATE: NORTH AMERICA Texas, US
VOPAK Products: Petrochemicals Capacity: 144,000 m3 Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Vopak has opened a new, 100% owned and operated, industrial terminal on the US Gulf Coast to serve Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a joint venture by ExxonMobil and SABIC for a world-scale plastics facility in San Patricio County, Texas, US. Comment: The Gulf Coast Growth Ventures cracker will produce 1.8 million tpa of ethylene from ethane, to feed a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units. Construction on the facility began in Q3 2019 and it is expected to start up in 2022.
Montana, US
CALUMET SPECIALTY PRODUCTS PARTNERS Products: Renewable diesel Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Matrix Service will build seven new renewable diesel storage tanks to support the production of up to 12,000 bpd of renewable diesel from soybean oil feedstock at Calumet’s new facility in Great Falls, Montana, US. Comment: Engineering for the tank project will be carried out by Matrix Service’s sister company, Matrix PDM Engineering.
SUNOCO Products: Refined products Capacity: 14.8 million bbl (NuStar) and 140,000 bbl (Cato) Investment: US$255.5 million (€215.1 million) Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: From NuStar, Sunoco bought the Blue Island terminal in Illinois, Andrews Air Force Base, Baltimore and Piney Point in Maryland, Jacksonville in Florida, Linden and Paulsboro in New Jersey, and Virginia Beach in Virginia. From Cato, Sunoco bought a terminal in Salisbury, Maryland.
Oklahoma, US
USD PARTNERS Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: USD Partners is to build a new pipeline connection to a second 300,000 bbl storage tank at a neighbouring third-party facility at its Stroud terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma, US. The increased connectivity will give the terminal better capability to serve multiple customers and multiple grades of crude oil simultaneously. Comment: The pipeline will be completed in Q1 2022.
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GIBSON ENERGY Products: Crude oil and refined products Capacity: 435,000 bbl Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Gibson Energy is to build a new 435,000 bbl tank at its Edmonton terminal in Canada.The Edmonton terminal currently has a total capacity of 1.7 million bbl. The new tank is expected to enter service in early 2023.
Products: Jet fuel Capacity: 3 million gallons (13.6 million L)
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: A new bulk jet fuel storage facility has opened at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL), designed and built by engineering firm Burns & McDonnell. It has three 1 million gallon aboveground storage tanks, an 11,000’ (3,353 m) underground fuel transmission pipeline, five horizontal pumps, a 4,300 ft2 operations building and fuelling infrastructure which cost an additional US$50 million. Comment: The facility is double the size of the previous facility and has room for another 1 million gallon tank.
Texas, US
ENBRIDGE
PHILLIPS 66
Products: Crude oil
Products: Crude oil, refined petroleum product and natural gas liquids
Investment: US$3 billion (€2.54 billion) Edmonton, Canada
ST. LOUIS LAMBERT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Investment: US$50 million (€43.1 million)
Products: Crude oil US
St. Louis, US
Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Enbridge has bought a number of storage and terminal assets from Moda Midstream and financer EnCap, including the 15.6 million bbl Moda Ingleside Energy Centre (MIEC), Flatrock Midstream, the 350,000 bbl Taft terminal, the 300,000 bpd Viola pipeline, and a 20% interest in the 670,000 bpd Cactus II pipeline. MIEC will be renamed the Enbridge Ingleside Energy Center (EIEC). Comment: Permits are in place at EIEC to increase the storage capacity to 21 million bbl and the export capacity to 1.96 million bpd.
Investment: US$3.4 billion (€2.91 billion) Construction/Expansion/Acquisition: Phillips 66 is to buy all remaining shares that it does not already own in Phillips 66 Partners, which it set up to focus on fee-based crude oil, refined petroleum products and natural gas liquids pipelines, terminals and other midstream assets. Comment: Following the transaction, expected to be completed in Q1 2022, Phillips 66 Partners will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips 66.
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