April 2020 | Storage Terminals Magazine

McDermott contracts

McDermott International, Inc. has announced CB&I Storage Solutions has been awarded one ‘large’ (between USD $50 million and $250...

Evos/HPA digital

Tank terminal operator Evos has released a statement to say it is now using a digital connection to the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). It...

New Specialty course

Specialty Products LLC (SPI) has announced its next Advanced Applicator Training Course will take place from June 15-19, 2020 in Lakewood...

Sprague award

The Sustainable Impact Award at the annual Global Tank Storage Awards was given to Sprague Operating Resources LLC “for innovative...

Moda expansion

Moda Midstream LLC has announced it has placed the final 495,000 barrel tank into service from its 10 million barrel crude oil expansions...

MFE thermal screening

MFE Enterprises, Inc. has released a statement to say it is “proud to announce the production of new equipment to perform mass thermal...

Pipeline storage

Energy Transfer will ask the Texas Railroad Commission to allow it to idle two pipelines in Texas and turn them into storage for around...

Lowest withdrawals

EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report said that in the Lower 48 states, working natural gas in storage totalled 2.008 trillion ft3 on...

Price drop – storage

The importance of liquid terminals and storage to the world oil market has been highlighted by the dramatic drop in crude oil prices, the...

Venture Global tank

Venture Global LNG has announced in an online statement that it has “lifted the roof” on the first LNG storage tank at its Calcasieu Pass...

Drone UT inspections

Apellix, which specialises in aerial robotics, has announced in a statement that it is now “identifying pilot projects for ultrasonic...

Fluorine-free process

FireDos has said in an online statement that it is receiving an increasing number of enquiries about changing its proportioners over from...

Singapore storage up 25%

Storage rental rates have risen by over 25 per cent compared to a year ago, to roughly $7/cubic metre a month, according to S&P Global Platt

India LNG demand

GlobalData has said “the stringent measures adopted to contain COVID-19 pandemic in India has led to a sharp decline in natural gas...

US on Venezuela

The US Treasury Department has tightened its authorizations on the Venezuelan operations of Chevron Corp. and several other oil companies...

CCC Arctic contract

Compressor Controls Corp. (CCC), which is a division of Roper Technologies Inc., has been awarded multiple contracts for the Arctic LNG 2...

Honeywell improvements

Newly-developed capabilities that further improve integration and security, and enable compliant, reliable and accurate tank inventory...

Sinopec Hin Leong

Sinopec is in early-stage talks with debt-laden Hin Leong Trading to buy a stake in an oil storage terminal that is partly owned by the...

Hin Leong hid losses

Singapore-based Hin Leong Trading (HLT), one of Asia's largest oil shippers, has sought protection against liquidation from 23 of the...

2020 TSA cancelled

The Tank Storage Association has released an online statement to announce it has cancelled the 2020 running of its Tank Storage...

Cameron Train 3

Cameron LNG has entered the final commissioning stage for the Phase 1, three-train liquefaction-export project in Hackberry, Louisiana...

Sonangol stockpiles

Sonangol, the Angolan state oil company, has announced it will be able to use the Pumangol fuel terminal, in Luanda, to establish a...

Brooge appoints MUC

Brooge Energy Limited, (through its wholly-owned subsidiary Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Company FZE (BPGIC) has announced that it...

Keppel/Toll/Vopak

Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd has signed separate MOUs with Toll Group and Royal Vopak respectively to study the feasibility of...

GASSCO AS contract

Offshore Design Engineering (ODE), the independent operations and engineering services company, has announced in an online statement that...

Rotork smart positioner

Designed for both control and on/off valve applications where diagnostics are required the new enhanced YT-3700 and YT-3750 digital smart...

Cushing spoken for

Traders say that whatever storage space is left at the Cushing oil hub is spoken for by firms sending oil to the hub right now. Yet...

New apprenticeships

Reynolds Training Services has announced that it will develop the UK’s first apprenticeship specialism for the bulk liquid storage sector...

Polymer Coatings Manager

Jake Valadez has been appointed Territory Sales Manager for the Midwest USA by Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC). In his new role, Valadez...

Vopak operational

Tank storage firm Vopak has said in an online statement that all its terminals are operational amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dutch oil...

Crude below zero

The price on the futures contract for West Texas crude fell into negative territory yesterday (April 20, 2020), at minus $37.63 a barrel...

Reynolds/Petro deal

Petro Industrial Pty Ltd, which is an international commercial refuelling specialist, has signed a five-year distribution agreement with...

Oiltanking commission

On April 17, 2020. Oiltanking MOGS Saldanha (RF) (Pty) Ltd commissioned its new crude oil terminal with the successful receipt of...

STAR Refinery

STAR Refinery in Aliağa, western İzmir province, Turkey, which is a subsidiary of Azerbaijani-integrated drilling and well services...

CLH Spain biofuels

The CLH Group has announced in an online statement that it has adjusted its infrastructures so biofuels can enter the logistics cycle. It...

ILTA proposes funds

The International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) has written a letter to Majority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer...