Continuing its series on Gulf Coast terminals,
RBN Energy turns its attention to Nederland.
Unlike the brand spanking new ECHO Terminal, Nederland has been around
for a hundred years or so since Sun Oil Company first set up a terminal
in the early twentieth century. Sitting in the middle of all that crude
oil and refining business has given rise to seriously good pipeline
connections along the way. For starters, Nederland is connected to the
four nearby refineries we mentioned above by pipeline and can therefore
provide them with crude oil supplies as well as storage and blending.
As
part of the recently completed Motiva 325 Mb/d refinery expansion
project, Sunoco built 2 MMBbl of crude storage for Shell and a new
30-inch connecting pipeline between Nederland and the refinery. The $10 B
Motiva expansion project was delayed for 6 months by damage to the new
crude distillation unit but is expected to come back online this week ( first week of December 2012) and increase the refinery capacity to 600 Mb/d.
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