Tanks and Terminals news updates

SBM Offshore has signed a letter of intent (LOI) together with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a 26.25-year lease and operate contract for the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

86% of respondents surveyed would like to see ‘no man entry’ robotic tank cleaning’ at their terminal.

Engicon nv (Geldof) has announced that six of its tanks have been renovated and successfully put back into service by Team Terminal.

The terminal has the capacity to store more than 2 million bbl of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Pavilion Energy and Chevron have signed a 6-year LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for the supply of approximately 0.5 million tpy of LNG to Singapore from 2023.

Nornickel has announced plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in place of its obsolete nickel factory in the Arctic.

WhiteWater has announced its acquisition of Enstor’s Waha gas storage assets.

Oiltanking has announced the signing of a new partnership with Operail concerning the transport of chemicals to terminals on the Vainikkala-Kotka route.

Vopak is investing in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the storage of waste based feedstocks for the production of biofuels such as biodiesel and bio-jet-fuel.

The tank storage event StocExpo has been postponed from June 2021 to 8 – 10 March 2022 in a decision made in consultation with the community.

Fulcrum BioEnergy and Essar have announced plans for a waste-to-fuel plant in the North West of England, with Stanlow Terminals Ltd providing product storage and logistics solutions for the project.

LBC Tank Terminals has been awarded the gold status by EcoVadis, a provider of business sustainability ratings for global supply chains.

Engineers from the Rice University in Houston, Texas, US, have developed a new computer model to show how the contents of failed aboveground storage tanks can spread following natural disasters such as hurricanes.

Enbridge Gas is holding a binding open season for peak storage services at the Dawn Hub storage facility starting as early as 01 April 2021.

Ok Kawang Engineering Co. (OKV), a Korean specialist valve supplier for the shipbuilding and offshore industry, is entering the US market.

Air Products has signed an agreement to provide its proprietary LNG technology, equipment and related process license and advisory services to the Energia Costa Azul (ECA) LNG export terminal project in Mexico.

Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings LLC has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of bulk terminal storage from Guttman Realty, which is comprised of three storage terminals in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, US.

Baker Hughes and NOVATEK have partnered up to develop a lower carbon hydrogen solution for LNG trains.

Edge Gathering Virtual Pipelines 2 LLC (Edge LNG) has unveiled its new facility in Midland, Texas, US, due to growing demand for its services.

TMC Compressors has been contracted to supply the marine compressed air system to the Bacalhau floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) that is being built for Equinor.

AqualisBraemar’s Ports & Harbour unit has completed its 2-year involvement with the development of Sub-Saharan Africa’s first floating LNG import terminal.

NextDecade has completed an evaluation of the Galveston Bay LNG site in Texas, US, and determined that it is not suitable for the development of an LNG facility and related infrastructure and utilities.

International IT company for the downstream industry, Implico Group, and Mexican solutions integrator, Apollocom, have announced a new-formed partnership to digitise the Mexican downstream sector.

Bulgartransgaz, the operator of the national natural gas transmission network of Bulgaria, has completed its participation in the development of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Alexandroupolis, Greece.