Posted on 10/07/2013 1:43:03 PM PDT by thackney
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners said that operations are underway at phase one of its 185-acre Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Co. project on the Houston Ship Channel.
Twenty of the 51 storage tanks built during the first phase of construction are being placed into service this month, and the remaining tanks will come online during the next six months.
A two-berth ship dock and 12 barge berths are also slated to be in service this month.
“We are pleased commercial operations have begun which provide the market with a unique, deepwater terminaling solution that provides high-speed loading and improved barge and ship access to the Texas Gulf Coast for the export and import of various refined products,” John Schlosser, president of Kinder Morgan Terminals, said in a statement.
The project is a joint venture of Kinder Morgan, which owns 55 percent and is the operator, and TransMontaigne Partners. The project, which cost almost $500 million,can handle sulfur diesel, residual fuels and other black oil terminal services.
Phase two of the construction is also underway and includes building six additional, 150,000-barrel, ultra low sulfur diesel tanks, additional pipeline connections and high-speed loading at a rate of 25,000 barrels per hour. BOSTCO expects phase two to begin service in the fourth quarter of 2014.
The BOSTCO project is employing approximately 750 local contractors during construction and about 75 full-time employees have been hired to operate the facility.
Is this being used for export or import?
Transport. In and out of residual fuel oil, feedstocks, distillates and other Black oils. Connections to Pipelines and to rail.
http://www.bostco.net/overview.aspx
Is this being used for export or import?
I have the same question. Plus, where are the new refineries?
We already refine more than we use ourselves. We import more crude oil than we need, refine it, then export the products for a trade benefit.
I wanna work there!
How about keeping some of that product so the price is reduced at the pump.
We don’t have a shortage of refined product. The main reason for the cost is the cost of the crude oil.
You won’t get cheap jewelry made from expensive diamonds and gold. Same goes for gasoline.
I see no proposed rail infrastructure. I can help with that.
And why is it we need more refineries?
The real work of America goes on while 90% of EPA workers are deemed non-essential and sit at home on their butts. Probably porn surfing same as they when at “work”
Go back to the link at #3. Rail siding included
Couple that with the lack of jobs in this lousy economy, and add in the freight transportation fuel surcharges that add to the cost of goods to the consumer. The high cost of gas and diesel affects every one of us.
Think. If the fuel was a dollar or a dollar and a half less, how much cheaper it would be for companies to operate. How much less the goods that everyone (staples) need would be.
Just a thought.
Sure it would be better for most if oil and the associated products were cheaper. But most of the world’s oil is controlled by governments, not business interested in actual selling it.
Got it... thanks.
Twin track good for 12 total carspots... EPIC FAIL.
Even if it is scalable to 24 or 30... unit crude oil trains are 70 cars.
The last crude oil loadout I oversaw near Wink, TX was an expansion from one 60 car track to a double track arrangement for 70 carspots on each track and 10 cars of space on a repair-in-place track... 150 car capacity... scaleable to 210 cars.
I wish I coulda helped... oh, well.
This is not a crude oil terminal.
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