Two terminal locations owned by the same company experienced significant demand for additional bulk storage (Collins, MS and Brownsville, TX). This need prompted the site owner to expand the bulk storage in both terminals. Both terminals provide terminalling, storage, transportation, and related services for refined products (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel).
The Collins, MS terminal is strategic and desirable given its dual connectivity to two U.S. major pipelines and is the last injection point on the two pipelines to up-load product at full line rates to U.S. locations. To facilitate transportation of more products, increased storage capacity was needed.
The terminal expansion was planned to roll out in two phases with Phase I completed and put into service in 2017. The expansion plan for Phase IIA increased that capacity by an additional 2 to 5 million barrels of product storage. As a component of Phase IIA, a tank construction company was contracted by the site owner to build three new 650 tanks that would store 870,000 barrels of refined petroleum (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel) for a major oil company. Phase IIA improvements have resulted in significant increased flexibility for the owner’s customers. The improvements resulted in significant increased flexibility for the Collins Terminal’s customers including the simultaneous receipt and delivery of gasoline.
The Brownsville, TX terminal operates a refined product terminal with approximately 0.9 million barrels of aggregate active storage capacity. It processes refined petroleum products, chemicals, vegetable oils, naphtha, wax and propane on behalf of and provides integrated terminalling services to customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of refined products and natural gas liquids.
The Brownsville, TX location needed to expand its storage capacity of gasoline, diesel and additives for further transportation by truck and the Diamondback Pipeline to the U.S./Mexico border. To increase its capacity, the site owner secured agreements with third parties for the construction of new facilities in Brownsville for the storage of these products. They hired the same full service tank construction company to build three new 650 tanks having a storage capacity 310,000 barrels.
On both terminal expansions the scope of work included the engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and coating of the (6) tanks constructed to API 650 requirements. The full service tank construction contractor processed the steel plate at an in-house plate processing facility that is strategically located on the Gulf coast. While there, the steel plate was burned with a high definition plasma cutter, beveled, and rolled before being shipped to the project site where it was erected. As planned, all six tanks were started in July of 2018 and completed on time and within budget in December 2018.
Terminal Expansion – (6) API 650 Storage Tanks
