8 February 2010 NuStar offloads ethanol
In the US, San Antonio-based terminal operator NuStar Energy has begun to receive and offload ethanol unit trains in Stockton and Selby, two of its locations in northern California.
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8 February 2010 Rubis rakes in Q4 terminal profit
France-based Rubis Terminals experienced a 6% growth in its primary activity, petroleum product storage, in Q4 2009.
In France, all segments showed increases, primarily petroleum,...
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8 February 2010 Polish LNG terminal pulls in the bids
A planned 5 billion m3 liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Swinoujscie in Poland has attracted interest from international engineering and construction groups.
Polskie...
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8 February 2010 Indonesian fuel terminal to come online
With a total storage capacity of 250,000 kilo litres of fuel, PT Aneka Kimia Raya Corporindo (AKR)’s terminal is expected to be the largest privately-operated facility in Indonesia.
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8 February 2010 Shell to cut 1,000 jobs
The Netherlands-based energy major Shell will shed 1,000 more jobs this year in a bid to reduce its massive costs.
‘Much of this will come from downstream and ongoing cost...
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8 February 2010 China sees oil imports climb
Its economy grew by 10% in Q4 2009 alone, and now crude oil imports in the most populous nation on earth in 2009 reached a record high of 4.1 million barrels a day.
Overall oil...
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5 February 2010 21m barrels of crude oil storage for sale
The Saldanha Bay depot, located in South Africa, is expected to release a proposal selling a total of 21 million barrels of crude storage in Q2 2010.
The storage facility consists of...
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4 February 2010 Stolt-Nielsen Terminals sees profit
Norway-based Stolt-Nielsen’s terminal business has reported quarterly profit up $500,000 (€361,450) from $14 million in Q3.
The rise in revenue was due primarily to lower operating...
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4 February 2010 NuStar storage sums up
San Antonio, Texas-based NuStar Energy has recorded a rise in storage-related earnings.
Its transportation and storage businesses generated an incremental $39 million (€28 million)...
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4 February 2010 Angola’s fishy oil pipeline attack
There is something fishy behind a spill from a subterranean Angolan oil pipeline near an oil terminal.
Shipments were not ceased but the puncture caused a three-day delay in operations...
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4 February 2010 Second combined Tank Storage/Biofuels International Canada to be held in Calgary in 2010
Market leading publication Tank Storage magazine is pleased to announce that the second combined Tank Storage/Biofuels International Canada expo & conference will be held in the Coast Plaza,...
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4 February 2010 Gibraltar's floating storage on the move
Adverse weather conditions could damage floating bunker fuel storage vessels and cause disastrous spills in Gibraltar if they remain in their current location.
A Spanish senator has...
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3 February 2010 PKN Orlen loses Lithuanian terminal talks
The pressure has amounted to nothing: Polish refiner PKN Orlen has been unable to convince the Lithuanian government to sell a stake in the Klaipedos oil terminal on the Baltic coast.
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3 February 2010 Blackwater Midstream to acquire terminal
In the US independent bulk liquid storage terminal operator Blackwater Midstream is drawing closer to its acquisition of a facility in Brunswick, Georgia, for $1.8 million (€1.29 million).
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3 February 2010 Rotterdam official oil product figures up
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam for the year 2009 ended up 2 million tonnes higher than suggested by the provisional figures published at the end of December 2009, with record high handling...
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2 February 2010 Reliance bags Borco storage
India’s Reliance Industries (RIL), owner of the world’s largest oil refining complex, has leased storage for petrol at the Borco oil terminal in the Caribbean.
The deal on the half...
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2 February 2010 Russia names new LNG terminal
A new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal will be built in Ust-Luga, following licensing approvals from the ministry of regional development.
The new terminal will be built by...
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2 February 2010 Kozmino exports almost 1 million tonnes
The Russian Port of Kozmino in the Primorsk region handled over 900,000 tonnes of export oil at its terminals in January 2010, exceeding year on year figures.
The port transshipped...
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2 February 2010 The Eagle has ended: Sunoco shuts refinery
US energy major Sunoco has permanently closed its 150,000 barrel a day Eagle Point refinery at Westville, New Jersey, which has been inactive since November.
Prolonged weak demand for...
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1 February 2010 Fujairah tank farm phase pending completion
One phase of Fujairah Refinery Company Limited’s (FRCL) expansion plans will enter operations soon.
Black oil storage capacity of 140,000m³ should be ready by May or June.
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1 February 2010 Fire strikes KOC crude oil tank
In the Arab emirates a crude oil tank fire is now under control.
The fire broke out in a dual tank at an oil and gas gathering centre at state-run Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)’s al-Mugwa...
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1 February 2010 PCS ponders LPG storage
The expanding liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market in the Middle East has sparked Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore, a naphtha cracker operator, to consider building refrigerated tanks to store...
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1 February 2010 Abengoa to store ethanol at Rotterdam
It will complete an ethanol facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, later this year, but first Spain-headquartered bioethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy will take up storage space in the port.
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1 February 2010 Marstel Terminals readies eight tanks
Australasian fuel terminal operator Marstel Terminal expects eight storage tanks to be up and running by year end at the Port of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia.
Marstel bought the...
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1 February 2010 Aegis Logistics eyes three terminals
India-based oil, gas and chemical logistics company Aegis Logistics is to establish three import terminals at shipping ports across the coastal region in the country to handle petroleum, oil and...
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1 February 2010 Slay Industries sells terminal to Kinder Morgan
US energy business Kinder Morgan Energy Partners plans to acquire four terminals from Missouri-based Slay Industries for $98 million (€70.4 million).
The facilities include a liquid...
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29 January 2010 Dutch to establish Pakistan LNG terminal
The Pakistani government has granted approval to the Netherlands-based 4Gas to establish a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Port Qasim.
The Floating Re-gasification...
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29 January 2010 SOCAR terminal gets a tug in the right direction
In Georgian Kulevi, a terminal owned by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has bought a tug to receive Aframax oil tankers.
The Black Sea Terminal (BST) took into operation a...
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28 January 2010 Prax prolongs TDG storage contract
In the UK, Prax Petroleum’s diesel, gas oil, kerosene and petrol will be stored for an extra 10 years at logistics services provider TDG’s Dagenham terminal.
Prax Petroleum has had...
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28 January 2010 Simon storage secures Haase Oil Chemical contract
UK-based independent bulk liquid and gas logistics service provider Simon Storage has signed a contract to provide base oil storage for hocem Haase Oil Chemical under a new three-year contract.
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28 January 2010 Collision shuts Texas oil port
A spill of almost half a million gallons of crude oil on 23 January has forced oil-handling Port Arthur in Texas to close.
An AET tanker chartered by ExxonMobil leaked 450,000 gallons...
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28 January 2010 Gazprom Neft begins oil transshipment
Gazprom Neft will launch an oil shipment from Spetsmornefteport Kozmino in the Primorsk Territory from 30 to 31 January, carrying 100,000 tonnes.
Oil delivery is carried out by a...
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28 January 2010 Varandey Terminal transships 10 million tonnes of crude
In Russia, the Varandey loading terminal has completed the first shipment of 10 million tonens of crude oil transported by the Arctic tankers owned by Sovcomflot.
The Varandey’s...
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28 January 2010 PetroChina expands largest fuel terminal
China’s largest oil company is expanding its largest fuels storage terminal.
PetroChina’s terminal at Funiuxi in Chongqing municipality on the upper Yangtze River will increase to...
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26 January 2010 Blueknight storage tank hit by lightning
On 20 January a fire at Blueknight Parterns’ oil storage tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, burned for eight hours until it was finally put out.
Although the company’s operations were not...
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26 January 2010 Aramco lease taken over by PetroChina
On the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius is a 5 million bbl oil storage capacity, which has just been taken over by PetroChina.
The largest oil and gas producer and distributor...
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26 January 2010 Russia: expand to Asia or save the tiger?
As well as the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, Russia is also home to the world’s largest cat; the Siberian tiger. An endangered species, only 450 of these big cats remain in the Russian...
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26 January 2010 Expansion for NuStar tank farm
In Louisiana, NuStar Logistics has been approved plans to build seven crude oil tanks. These will be linked to its facility and Mississippi River site near the community of St. James through the use...
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26 January 2010 JAC Jurong Island development commences
After two years of waiting, the $2 billion (€1.4 billion) petrochemical development is finally on its way to being constructed. The Jurong Aromatics Corporation (JAC) had to put building plans on...
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20 January 2010 Kinder Morgan moves in on ethanol
US energy player Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) has agreed to an ethanol terminal joint venture, acquiring three terminals for just under $200 million (€141.2 million).
The $195...
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20 January 2010 1 out of 12 tankers stores oil
With its almost illimitable space, the sea is looking like a sound place to store oil.
On-land tank farms are getting full prompting oil companies and traders to hire very large crude...
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19 January 2010 Oil spill clean-up underway in Alaska
A leak from an underground storage tank, which ejected almost 150,000 gallons of diesel in Adak, western Alaska, US, is finally under control with clean-up operations underway.
The...
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19 January 2010 Dirty Tampa Bay tanks fail clean deadline
It has been almost twenty years and yet petrol stations, government and business storage facilities in Tampa Bay, Florida, have not met a deadline to upgrade faulty fuel storage tanks.
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19 January 2010 Mumbai port to develop infrastructure
In India the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) will develop a second chemical jetty and related infrastructure at an estimated cost of Rs 3,652 crore (€557.4 million).
The port will further...
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19 January 2010 Polish terminal to store Russian oil
Russian oil is finding its way into more eastern European countries.
Naftoport, a Polish oil terminal in Gdansk, could be on the receiving end of tankers holding 200,000 tonnes of...
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18 January 2010 Philippines LNG terminal build set for March
Construction on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and storage facility project in Quezon province in the Philippines will begin in March this year.
The environmental compliance...
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