- VLCC terminal
- current draft of 45 feet at the Corpus Christi Ship Channel
- VLCC: 1.4 million bbls
- Ingleside Energy Center facilty
- at a greater water depth of 66 feet or more: capacity of 2 million bbls
- the PCCA and the US Army Corps of Engineers will jointly invest $327 million to deepen the port through an aggressive dredging program; will also expand the width of the channel entrance
- also, the agency is pursuing a new bridge at a cost of $800 million
- maximum fully loaded vessel that the channel can now handle is an Aframax (about 750,000 bbls)
Key points:
- VLCC
- 2 million bbls of crude oil (two days of North Dakota crude oil production)
- Panama Canal Expansion
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