The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts today, June 1, and a storm may be on its way to the United States by the end of the week.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda, which formed in the eastern Pacific last week, began moving across Central America over the weekend. It made landfall in Guatemala early Sunday morning, May 31, and the remnants of Amanda will meander...
In June 2016, the Panama Canal opened a third set of locks that enabled transit of larger ships, the first such expansion since the canal was completed in 1914. In the years since the canal was expanded, the largest change in petroleum flows through the canal has been the rise of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL), especially propane, from the US Gulf Coast to destinations in Asia, EIA informs.
Most of the petroleum transiting the Panama Canal travels south from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific...
According to EIA, petroleum refineries in the US Gulf Coast rely more and more on merchant suppliers, instead of their own production, to provide the hydrogen used to reduce the sulphur content of fuel. Namely, with the demand for distillate fuel oil increasing, and sulphur content regulations becoming stricter, refineries need to use more hydrogen.
Hydrogen demand is expected to continue to increase as IMO regulations, that limit the sulphur content in marine fuels, apply on January 1, 2020.
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https://safety4sea.com/eia-us-gulf-coast-refinery-hydrogen-demand-met-by-merchant-suppliers/
Around half a dozen of midstream companies and joint ventures are clamoring to build deepwater loading terminals on the Gulf of Mexico.
Why Mexico?Mexico is preferred since it is a major pain to load Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) any other way. The standard operating procedure for loading the vast majority of VLCCs along the Gulf Coast involves a complex, time-consuming and costly process of ship-to-ship transfers called reverse-lightering.
The smaller tankers ferry out and transfer crude to...
http://mfame.guru/berth-in-reverse-reverse-lightering-crude-oil-supertankers/
Sentinel Midstream, a Texas-based midstream solution provider, is the latest company to present its designs for the development of a new deepwater terminal, located near Freeport, Texas. The proposed Texas Gulflink will be capable of fully loading Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) vessels.
Reuters states that the company’s decision is due to seven additional proposals for the development of VLCC-loading facilities on the Gulf coast. Some analysts and executives believe not all proposed terminals...
https://safety4sea.com/sentinel-announces-new-deepwater-crude-oil-export-facility/